Chapter 127: The Great Auction
Asakusa Antique Market in Tokyo, an island country
If Inoue's father was here, he would definitely not sit back and watch Jiang Yelin auction off the Chenghua porcelain that had just been picked up from him, and he would have to grit his teeth even if it cost 10 million yen to buy it back.
However, Inoue, a guy who studied architecture at university, is obviously not a qualified antique dealer, or even a qualified businessman, and has just sold a stall of goods for 3.6 million yen, and then asked him to buy back one of the blue and white porcelain bowls without knowledge for nearly three times the price.
After thinking about it again and again, Inoue still didn't have the courage, and finally Inoue happily agreed to Jiang Yelin's request to temporarily borrow his stall, and the museum shelves and 23 pieces of blue and white porcelain were placed in place, but I had never seen such a collector, and the treasure that I just bought was ready to be auctioned off in situ? He also shouted out a 1 million yen holding fee, and the reserve price of 10 million yen is such an astonishing price! "Boss, can you do it? Why do I think I'm so careful that I don't have a bottom, I think you can just give Boss Inoue a 20% discount, sell this bowl to Boss Inoue for $64,000, let's not toss around......"
Bai Suzhen is talking from her heart at this time, holding a small auction in such a crowded antique market in Asakusa, Tokyo, this Jiang Yelin really dares to think and dare to do it!
Don't say it, Bai Suzhen said that he would sell it back to Inoue at a 20% discount, this guy is really moved, why, Jiang Yelin's appreciation of ancient ceramics has completely won the approval of the boss of Inoue's antique shop, and in Jiang Yelin's words before, Leng was selling his 500,000 hand fakes as genuine Ming Qinghua and sold them for a high price of 1 million yen.
People have blind spots in their thinking, 1 million yen is equivalent to 40,000 soft sister coins, and it takes more than 8,000 to convert it into US dollars, and it is 32,000 to exchange it for Hong Kong dollars, 92 years of this situation, the general good quality of the Ming blue and white genuine small pieces, the auction transaction price is just around this price, and the sale is not a loss at all!
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yelin didn't answer this question, but asked Bai Suzhen to send Keiko and Qinzi 100 US dollars each for labor fees, which can be regarded as borrowing from Inoue, as for the booth fee and pen, ink and paper, the boss Inoue who was crying and shouting just now to hire Jiang Yelin as the shopkeeper couldn't open his mouth, so he simply gritted his teeth and rolled up his sleeves, and instructed the two female store partners to help build the auction hall together.
In his heart, he pondered, the young master from the Maple Leaf Country in front of him seemed to be a very playful guy, and he didn't know what to really impress the other party, if he introduced his daughter Michiko to him and recruited him as a colt, it would be the ancestor of the Inoue family who burned high incense! Thinking so, Inoue cleaned up the frustration he had just felt and cheered up again.
At this time, Jiang Yelin and Inoue didn't mention the "Well no Yashiki" signboard banner hanging on the stall, Jiang Yelin didn't need to use it in vain, this Inoue family has been open for hundreds of years of antique shops, how can it be regarded as a time-honored brand with inheritance, it is always greater than his own fame as a river dragon.
As for Inoue, if he really did a good job of this unobtrusive auction with the sign of the Inoue family, and sold the Ming blue and white porcelain with the sign of his own antique shop on his stall at a high price, it would be of great help to the goodwill of Inoyashiki, and outsiders would not know that the ownership of these porcelains did not belong to Inoya Shiki before the auction, right? "What, Boss Inoue, in order to build momentum for your antique shop, wie will open up sales in the future, just say that I am an ancient porcelain expert who moved to the Maple Leaf Country hired by you, and a national treasure-level expert who studied under the Huaxia Palace Museum, these Ming blue and white porcelain are specially selected boutiques, the Chenghua porcelain bowl finale is auctioned, and the other 23 pieces of porcelain, the starting price is 200,000 yen!"
As soon as Jiang Yelin said this, he was in the arms of Inoou, and he agreed with a smile, and the person in his 40s seemed to be a few years younger after his face was folded, and then Jiang Yelin pulled Bai Suzhen aside, and the ear was carefully instructed, Bai Suzhen's face changed again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and nodded, and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
Keiko and Qinzi are wearing shop clothes with Inoue family crests, these two girls Keiko belongs to the cute and kawaii appearance, and Qinzi is plump and charming, both of them are six or seven points of posture plus seven or eight points of light makeup and hairstyle, it is also eye-catching, and the two beautiful shopkeepers hold billboards and walk back and forth along the street of the Asakusa antique market.
Under this big tree, the booth under the signboard of "Inoya no Yashiki" is almost surrounded by people, and at least hundreds of people are crowded around, I heard that the treasure of the town store inherited by the Inoue family for hundreds of years is put up for auction, and the starting price is 10 million yen, can this not attract attention, some good deeds, just follow Keiko and Qinzi and the two sisters behind each other are very fun, why not?
Of course, there are many people who can pay the fee of 1 million yen, and many of the onlookers are the owners or managers of other stalls, and some of them are acquaintances of Inoue.
The subscription ratio is only 10:1, and there are nearly 200 people around the three circles outside the three circles to watch the excitement, and there are only 20 people who are willing to participate in the auction, half of which are the owners and shopkeepers of other antique stores.
Among these twenty people, there are 19 old, middle-aged, yellow-skinned and white-skinned people in various colors, and only one woman with sunglasses and a cloak looks very eye-catching, as if it is Bai Suzhen who went to the nearby bathroom to change her makeup, and the number plate she got in her hand is No. 19.
Keiko and Qinzi pulled a ribbon while shouting and driving, even if the 20 buyers in front of the booth who entered the auction were separated from the tourists and tourists who were watching the excitement outside, and the spies of other stores, Inoue muttered Japanese for a while, even if he said the opening remarks, the auction officially began.
Don't say it, the two female shop companions of the Inoue family are still very diligent and quick, 23 pieces of blue and white porcelain are temporarily labeled with numbers, the first one to take out is the No. 1 lot, Jiang Yelin, who also brought sunglasses, held the No. 1 lot and made an introduction: "Everyone, the contemptible person is the maple leaf nationality consultant specially invited by the Inoue family, this Ming blue and white phoenix phoenix peony plum vase, although the appearance is slightly flawed, but the flaws are not concealed, the glaze pattern color pulp style, according to me, is the typical characteristics of Ming Yongle's early porcelain, of course, there is no style knowledge underneath, However, most of the blue and white porcelain in the early Ming Yongle period is not available, and the starting price is 200,000 yuan, and you can bid if you want! “
Before Jiang Yelin's words fell, a short old man in a kimono raised the number plate in his hand, and Inoue, who was presiding over the auction, lit up and said busily, "Suoga, the No. 7 buyer bid 200,000 yuan to buy the Ming Yongle Phoenix Peony Plum Vase, and there is a price increase?!" At the recent Christie's auction on Hong Kong Island, a plum vase of the same age was sold for a high price of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars! “
The so-called auction price of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars is still Jiang Yelin's nonsense just now, 92 Hong Kong Island Christie's autumn auction porcelain sale, can be auctioned 300,000 Hong Kong dollars Ming blue and white is rare, most of the transaction prices are around 8-120,000 yuan, but along this plum bottle is relatively large, if it is not a slight flaw in quality, it is not unusual to really auction more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.
At this time, the exchange rate of Hong Kong dollars against soft girl coins is 1 to 1.4, so 300,000 Hong Kong dollars is almost 420,000 soft girl coins, that is, 9.24 million yen, a Ming blue and white plum vase that may be auctioned on Hong Kong Island for more than 9 million yen, the starting price in this Asakusa market is only 200,000 yen, this temptation is not small!
Therefore, the price soared from 200,000 to 900,000 yen, which is almost less than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, in other words, if you win this plum vase for 900,000 yen, as long as the door is really Ming Yongle porcelain, and if it is sent to the auction, you can earn at least 2-10 times the price, so 900,000 yen is definitely a price worth investing.
Inoue, who presided over the auction, felt 10,000 regrets at this time, before Jiang Yelin actually taught himself that he couldn't see the things he couldn't see, don't say which dynasty it was so clear, let the buyers fight for their own eyes, but I didn't expect that when he really shouted and sold, this kid could really blow the straw into gold bars, this plum bottle with no money and flaws, actually let him be Ming Yongle's boutique This is called 900,000 yen?
Then he packed 24 pieces of porcelain for 3.6 million and sold it for Jiang Yelin earlier, but it was really a loss to the Pacific Ocean, why is the gap between people and people so big, and he has absolutely no courage to blow such an inconspicuous plum bottle into a baby in front of everyone!
After a short pause at the price of 900,000 yuan, the only two remaining buyers raised the sign for a while, and finally the short and fat old man in the kimono became the new owner of the plum vase in Lot 1 at a price of 1.2 million yen.
With a good start, the next 22 lots were returned to their owners within 40 minutes, and the short and fat old man alone won eight of the Ming blue and white porcelain, paying a high price of 5 million yen in total.
A powerful buyer with a European appearance auctioned five lots for a total transaction price of 3 million yen, and the remaining 10 small pieces were divided into four buyers, exactly two pieces per person, and the total transaction price was also 3 million yen.
Bai Suzhen, who was the nursery at the time of the auction, spent 500,000 yen to auction two of the small blue and white porcelains.
What is surprising is that after the previous auction of 23 small pieces, the final finale, the starting price of 10 million yen in the Ming Chenghua inner and outer courtyard Gao Shitu competition only five people to bid, after all, the starting price of 10 million yen, plus no knowledge, all rely on the oily face and mustache of the maple leaf nationality young expert to brag nonsense, many people really can't hold up the card.
After fierce competition, it finally became a competition between the European powerful buyer and the short and fat old man in the kimono, and this time it was the European buyer who insisted to the end, and at a price of 28 million yen, the flower-shaped bowl with the label of the Ming Chenghua porcelain bowl was in the bag......
This qiē is like a dream for Inoue, who is in charge of the auction, and he has been in the antiques business for 20 years, and today is the first time he has seen someone auction blue and white porcelain worth 3 million yuan in front of him for a high price of 39 million yen! This Nima is 13 times the profit!
Of course, Bai Suzhen smiled, carrying a black suitcase filled with 39 dollars and 10,000 yen bills, and her eyes couldn't help but make people reverie!