Chapter 143 Celestial Globe and Globe (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for recommendations!) )
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Jin Muchen is not a military fan, but he also has an indescribable preference for firearms.
When I was in New York, I wanted to buy two to play with, but because of the gun license, I couldn't get it for a long time, and finally got the gun license, but I didn't have time to go to the gun shop.
This time I didn't expect to visit the second-hand market, but it was an eye-opener, and he used to visit a lot of second-hand markets in New York, but there were no guns in the market over there.
And I still buy such a famous gun from World War II, in this stall, there are not only rifles, but even many machine guns of the same period, which are also stored.
For example, the famous Chicago typewriter, Thompson submachine gun, and German MP40 can be seen, and even on the innermost shelves made of ammunition boxes, you can also see the Maxim heavy machine gun, and Hitler's rag ripper MG42 and other big killing weapons.
Jin Muchen was almost dazzled, and he couldn't help but want to pick it up and play with it when he didn't see a once-famous guy.
However, although these guns can be picked up, they are also locked with iron anti-theft chains, and some guns do not have bolts, or they are locked in the trigger, so they can only be addicted.
There are not many people who come to this stall, and the stall owner is a middle-aged lewd uncle in his forties, dressed in hippie clothes, with a messy hair and beard. He also wears a green military hat on his head.
When Jin Muchen came in before. The stall owner didn't pay much attention to him. After seeing that he hadn't picked up the gun and played with it, he quietly came to him.
"How? My collection is good, right? What's in it for you, young man? ”
"Uh...... I'm just looking at ......."
Jin Muchen embarrassedly put down the guy in his hand, and the uncle was happy.
"It's okay, you can just look at it casually, and tell me what you like."
This uncle's attitude is much better than the guy he met in San Francisco a few days ago, and he is very kind. It's also generous, and it's not discriminatory.
At this time, there were several other guests who entered the tent, and the uncle went to greet the others, leaving Jin Muchen alone to watch slowly.
After looking around, Jin Muchen finally reluctantly planned to leave, the things here are good, and he also wants to buy them, but how to get them back to New York is quite troublesome.
He was going to make a plane back. If you buy a few guys, you will definitely not be able to take the plane. If you go to check in your luggage, it is also very troublesome, and guns are very sensitive to agree, and if you mail them, you have to go through a lot of procedures, and the cost is not low.
Anyway, you can buy guns in the United States, Jin Muchen pondered, it is better to go back to New York and buy them again.
"What? Didn't like it? ”
At this time, the stall owner finished greeting several other people and came to Jin Muchen's side again.
"It's not that I don't like it, it's just that I don't have a gun license, although I like your collection very much, but you also know that if I buy it, it will be illegal......"
Jin Muchen lied, after all, he watched and played here for a long time, but he didn't buy anything, and he felt a little embarrassed.
"Hey, young man, that's not a problem. I have something better here. ”
The old man squeezed his eyes at Jin Muchen as he spoke, and then dragged a green ammunition box from behind him, and when he opened it, there were several pistols lying inside.
There are new and old, the new ones are like the current popular Glock, and the old ones are the M1911 that has even lost the baked blue.
"These are good things, you know, the kind of ...... without serial numbers."
The old man said mysteriously to Jin Muchen, and smiled weirdly at Jin Muchen after speaking, which means that you understand......
And Jin Muchen was full of sweat when he heard it, it is worthy of being the largest second-hand market in Los Angeles, it is really strange!
Although he was standing, he could clearly see that the traces of the pistols and the original serial numbers on the guns had been erased.
Such a gun, self-explanatory, is the legendary black gun, a sharp weapon specially used to do illegal things.
With this thing, let alone robbery with a gun, it is to kill a few guys that you don't like to look at, as long as you cover it up properly, the police don't even want to find evidence from the killing weapon.
But Nima Laozi is a serious antique dealer, what do you want to do with such a sharp weapon to kill people and oversell goods?
So Jin Muchen could only mumble a few words, and then fled from this tent, and when he stepped out of this tent, he could still hear the stall owner laughing in the back......
There are more and more tents open in the market, and Jin Muchen is also in a hurry, because he knows that after seven o'clock, many stalls will put away some shady things and start regular transactions.
So if you want to find good things, you have to seize the time now.
Soon as he passed by a tent, he was attracted by the flickering yellow light inside.
This tent is different from other tents, as soon as you enter it, you can feel that it is very elegantly furnished, giving people the feeling that it is in the study of an old European nobleman.
Facing the tent door is a writing desk, behind which is a large desk chair, behind which are rows of bookshelves, and then on either side are casual sofas.
The floor is also very exquisite, with a red carpet and dim lighting, it is easy to make people feel that they are strange and travel through time and space, as if they have traveled from modern times to the study of a European nobleman in the eighteenth century.
The stall owner's dress is also very chic, he is actually dressed in a tuxedo, with white gloves, short hair, and a thin figure, he looks very much like a British housekeeper, and he smiled slightly when he saw Jin Muchen come in.
"Welcome, sir! Butler is happy to serve you. ”
As soon as he opened his mouth, it was really a British butler's tone, so much so that Jin Muchen was stunned.
"Uh...... You're so polite......"
"It's okay, don't be restrained, just look at it casually, if you see anything, you will greet me."
The stall owner obviously also realized Jin Muchen's restraint, hurriedly greeted him, and then quietly walked away.
It's a strange guy, Jin Muchen thought to himself as he looked at the stall owner's back, and then turned around and began to look at the things in the tent.
Obviously, these things are bought, and Jin Muchen can also see that these should be antique furniture from Europe.
For example, the desk, the chair, and the bookcase at the back, as well as the books on the bookcase, are all old objects that are old, and they should all be defined as antiques.
But what attracted his attention the most was a pair of globes on the desk, which were not very large, about twenty centimeters in diameter, and the workmanship was very beautiful, and the two balls still flashed with a very strong red and yellowish light.
Although the other furniture and books also shimmered with various lights, they were not as strong as the globe in front of them.
He came to the writing desk, and then reached out to play with the globe, which I don't know what age it was, but it was very well maintained, and it turned freely, and it didn't mean to be jerky at all.
And after getting started, I found out that this is not a pair of globes, it should be a celestial globe and a globe.
The celestial globe was painted with all kinds of astronomical stars, and it was the first time Jin Muchen had seen such a celestial globe.
At first glance, the globe is definitely old, Australia is labeled New Holland, and New Zealand is classified as Antarctica.
Pick it upside down, it's also heavy, it looks like the material should be very real, at least the base is not gold-plated, if you read it right, it should be pure gold.
If it is an old object in the eighteenth century, and it is made of pure gold as the base, it must be not small, after all, in those years, there were not many big dogs, willing to use pure gold to make the base of the globe.
Jin Muchen probably had a judgment in his heart, and then called the stall owner dressed as a housekeeper over.
"Butler, how do you sell celestial globes and globes?"
"An heirloom of the French aristocracy of the eighteenth century, asking for three hundred thousand dollars, no bargaining!"
Ho! As soon as I heard this offer, I was a knowledgeable person, this offer was not very cheap, but it could not be said to be expensive, and it was also very particular.
Just for the identity of this pair of celestial globes and globe antiques, as well as excellent workmanship, this pair of treasures is definitely worth the price.
If you can explain the origin of this thing, then the price must be going up, of course, it is precisely because I don't know the origin of this thing, so this Butler quoted 300,000.
Jin Muchen touched his chin and groaned.
"Well, Butler, can you tell me where this thing came from?"
Jin Muchen knew that such a thing, if it was genuine in the eighteenth century, it was not something that everyone could afford to use, and it must have a background.
So he wanted to know more about the origin of the pair of celestial globes and globes, but this Butler obviously didn't know too much.
"Uh...... Sir, I'll just say it, this is a few years ago when I traveled to Europe to collect, as for the origin, I haven't studied too clearly, but it is certain that this pair of celestial globes and globes must have been owned by the French aristocracy at that time, this is the only information I can provide, if you don't believe it, we can do carbon 14 identification. ”
As soon as he heard this Butler's hesitation, Jin Muchen probably knew that this thing should be a thief who slipped from Europe, or a treasure lost in the war, but this is fine, if this pair of treasures knew the inheritance, it would definitely not be 300,000 yuan.
“ok! No problem, wrap it up for me, but it's 300,000, I didn't bring so much cash, do you accept cash checks here? Or is it okay to transfer money? ”
"Forget about the cash check, you can transfer it to it!" (To be continued......)