Chapter 341: An Unexpected Harvest
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"Huh?" The stall owner was stunned by Yu Fei's simplicity and generosity.
I didn't expect that today's first business came so easily, maybe there will be something big today. This made the stall owner feel a lot better.
Leaving the stall, Qi Zhi asked in a low voice, "Brother Fei, this pair of earrings is not ordinary, right?" ”
"How do you know the way?" Yu Fei asked strangely. Although Qi Zhi has followed his uncle Qi Yue to play antiques for two days, his level is still too low, and it is impossible to see that this pair of earrings is not simple.
If even Qi Zhi could see that the earrings were not ordinary, I am afraid he would not be able to wait for Yu Fei to pick up the leak.
"Of course I can't see it." Qi Zhi said: "But I don't think it should be wrong to make Fei Ge look good." ”
Qi Zhi had seen Yu Fei pick up leaks many times, and he was convinced of Fei's vision.
Yu Fei smiled smugly and said, "I really said that you are right, this earring should be an old thing." And the inlaid ones should be diamonds, and the grade is not low. If you get the Sotheby auction, it is estimated that the price will not be less than 10,000 pounds! If you can figure out the origin of these earrings, I am afraid that the price will increase several times. ”
Of course, what Yu Fei values is not this mere 10,000 pounds! Seeing this earring, he finally found his gift to Margaret.
Although the earrings are a little old, they are also valuable if they are inlaid with diamonds. And Margaret also likes to collect, and this pair of earrings is just right for her.
Yu Fei planned to find some cotton and wipe it carefully after going back, and then buy a better box to put it in. This grade must have gone up immediately.
Fortunately, this trip to Bloomemunse was quite rewarding.
The morning sun is slowly rising, and the morning in the Berlemonse neighborhood has arrived. In the blue morning light, the foreign streets made Yu Fei feel very relaxed and comfortable.
However, a booth surrounded by many people in front of him made Yu Fei interested again.
What can attract so many people to stop and watch is probably something good.
The two of them struggled with their old noses and suffered a lot of rolls before squeezing in. However, seeing the situation inside, Yu Fei was immediately deflated, it turned out that this was a calligraphy and painting stall.
The stalls were cluttered with hundreds of drawings of all kinds, including sketches. There are oil paintings, and even Yu Fei saw a few graffiti-like ink paintings in them. Although there are many paintings, there are few rare ones.
The crowd gathered around the stall. Not because of the paintings on the stalls, but because the stall owners are concentrating on the paintings.
The stall owner is an old man in his sixties, with a slippery chin, who looks a little younger out of thin air. The wrinkles on the face are deep. The skin is a little rough and gray because of the wind blowing the sun. At this time. He was flicking the pencil in his hand quickly. Soon, an early morning sketch of the Berlemonse neighborhood came to life.
However, as far as people like Yu Fei who don't know how to paint are concerned, the level of the old man is very average. He casually threw a few scrolls with a similar style to the painting in his hand, and it seemed that he painted them alone.
Although the old man's paintings are average, Yu Fei likes his self-entertaining attitude to life and his attitude towards life that is neither humble nor arrogant.
It's really inappropriate to let him look at the stalls and sell paintings.
It was obvious that a few of the people around me were interested in buying the paintings, and some had even opened their mouths to inquire about the paintings. But the old man was so focused on the brush that he didn't pay any attention to it. It made the sellers leave in a huff.
"Brother Fei, is his painting good?" Qi Zhi really didn't think there was any fun in scribbling over and over a blank piece of paper with a pencil. I couldn't help asking.
"Shhhhh ”
Because the old man was still painting, Yu Fei began to check the paintings on his stall.
Many of these paintings are very famous, such as Monet's "Water Lilies", Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and so on. However, these brushstrokes are immature and stiff, and it is obvious that they were copied by the old man himself. Most of the paintings are unsigned, and apparently not too valuable.
Yu Fei stood up with some disappointment, and just wanted to leave, but was suddenly attracted by several sketches in the scroll.
At first glance, these sketches may seem ordinary, some of them depict a lighthouse, some of them are a few small trees, none of them are very vivid, but they are quite tasteful. And there are no very clear shadows in these sketches, and there are no prominent or flat-painted outlines. This made Yu Fei feel a little surprised.
At first, he thought that these paintings were also the old man's own incarnation, but soon he noticed a difference! These paintings are not conspicuous in the paintings, but they give Yu Fei an inexplicable attraction.
This feeling has been felt by Yu Fei many times, and it is the mutual attraction between the chaotic qi!
Yu Fei immediately guided a chaotic aura into these paintings! Sure enough, there are more than ten paintings that have the existence of chaotic qi! The difference is that the concentration of the chaotic qi is deep and shallow. Among them, the largest concentration is the six sketches and drawings that Yu Fei saw just now.
Yu Fei immediately thought that these sketches were definitely not simple.
His body, which had just stood up, crouched down again.
"Let's get a price for these." Yu Fei selected all the pictures that existed in the chaotic qi, and in order to prevent the old man from being suspicious, he also deliberately picked five or six more pictures, which together were exactly twenty.
"Twenty pounds a painting." The old man rolled his eyelids and said.
This made Yu Fei feel very speechless, this old man really didn't know where he got these more than ten fine paintings, but what was incomprehensible was that he was really confident that he mixed these paintings with his own graffiti.
Twenty pounds for one piece, twenty pounds for four hundred pounds. Such a price is not expensive.
Yu Fei happily took out four hundred pounds, and then carefully rolled the paintings together.
Of course, the old man's painting is wrapped in the outermost.
After buying these paintings, Yu Fei was in a good mood! Although it is still unknown the origin of these paintings, it seems that the situation is not simple, and perhaps the value of these paintings is even higher than the peacock earrings just now.
Of course, these may also be his personal wishful thinking.
He also discovered the shortcomings of the chaotic qi in the identification of antiques, although the amount of chaotic qi can determine the age of the antique, but it "can't see" the origin of the antique. Especially foreign antiques, such as the crystal chalice, he knows very little. The same is true today, although he feels that these paintings are very good, but he does not know their origins, and cannot give an accurate quotation.
In one morning, Yu Fei walked around the entire neighborhood of Bai Mengsai, but except for the pair of silver and diamond-encrusted earrings and more than a dozen paintings, he never found any antiques worth selling for.
It's not that the quality of the antiques at the other stalls in Bermondsey is too poor. On the contrary, Yu Fei found several very good antiques in individual antique shops. However, the prices are relatively high, and Yu Fei has no interest in foreign antiques, and he feels that the appreciation space of these antiques is limited, so he did not make a move.
By the time hand pointed to nine o'clock in the morning, some people began to leave, and many stalls were preparing to close. The whole market is looking chaotic.
Yu Fei patted Qi Zhi's shoulder and said, "Let's go too, I got up too early in the morning and didn't eat breakfast, and now my stomach is protesting." ”
After returning to the hotel for breakfast, Yu Fei took out the more than ten antique paintings. (As for the old man's own paintings, Yu Fei has already stacked them very casually.) The reason why it was not destroyed on the spot was out of respect for the elderly. But most of these paintings are of different styles, and they are clearly not in the hands of the same person.
Yu Fei is also not familiar with the history of Europe, and there is no signature on these paintings, which is really difficult to discern.
Yu Fei watched it for a while and had to give up. It seems that I can only go back and find a master to identify. However, Ma Shangdu and Dong Dechang don't necessarily know much about European antiques, and whether they can see this kind of art. It seems that if you want to collect calligraphy and paintings, you still have a long way to go.
After wiping the earrings, Yu Fei dialed Margaret's phone.
I have to admit that Yu Fei has a very good impression of Margaret, a woman a few years older than herself, and is also very interested in the manor she said before!
However, what are the subtleties that this side will bring? (To be continued......)