Chapter Forty-Nine: Getting Old (I)
To say that Xie Xuan is really a person who eats this line of food, after hearing Qin Feng's explanation, his brain is also active.
Although Xie Xuan didn't talk much when he followed Qin Feng, when Qin Feng was bargaining with the shop owners, Xie Xuan occasionally interjected, and he could also talk about the idea.
"Brother Feng, I really didn't see it, there are a lot of doorways here."
As the saying goes, insiders look at the doorway, laymen look at the liveliness, with Qin Feng to take the entrance, Xie Xuan also figured out a little taste, and no longer felt that visiting an antique store was a chore.
"I'm still deeply educated."
Qin Feng laughed when he heard this, in fact, in this morning's wandering, how could he not be turning the theory in his mind into practice? When it came time to learn these things, he didn't have the conditions he has now.
"By the way, Brother Feng, what do you want to buy?"
Seeing that Qin Feng seemed to be in a good mood, Xie Xuan asked boldly, after shopping for most of the day, Qin Feng only spent thirty or fifty yuan, but the effort on his lips cost a lot.
"Let's shop first and familiarize yourself with the market!"
Qin Feng smiled and said: "Although Shishi is good, it is located in the hinterland of North China, and it is dependent on the important land of Beijing and Tianjin, without a certain foundation, it is difficult to develop, let's make some capital and leave here!" ”
"Cheng, Brother Feng, I listen to you."
Xie Xuan nodded, if his parents heard this, they would be half angry, and his father and mother begged and didn't leave, Qin Feng followed with a word.
For a whole day, Qin Feng was messing around on Baifo Street, but except for buying a few hanging ornaments, he didn't buy a single thing.
In the evening, the brothers ate a bowl of ramen on the side of the road, and after Qin Feng rubbed some lard at the pork stall when he passed by the vegetable market, the three of them returned to Xie Xuan's house with "four walls".
"Brother Feng, what are you doing here?"
Seeing Qin Feng smearing lard on the so-called "Xiao Ye Tan" bracelet, Li Tianyuan and Xie Xuan's eyes widened, the two brothers had heard of oiling leather shoes, but no one had seen the wood beads smeared with oil in the past.
"Make some pulp for it." Qin Feng said as he spoke, stretched out his hand and wiped it on the ground, and after his palms were covered with dust, he put the bracelet between his palms and rubbed it vigorously.
After about five minutes, Qin Feng stopped his hand, wrapped the bracelet with a rag, and rubbed it vigorously, a process that lasted for more than an hour.
"This bracelet seems to be a little different!"
Li Tianyuan had already seen it impatiently, pulled the quilt and fell asleep, while Xie Xuan had been guarding the side, and when the rags were opened, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The bracelet was originally a little dull in color, but now the luster has become very transparent, and the texture of the bracelet seems to come to life under the light, which is very beautiful.
And on the surface of the bracelet, it seems to be wrapped with a thick layer of slurry, and the color is beautiful and unassuming, showing a charming charm.
"Chubby, you have to remember, this is called pulp!"
Qin Feng glanced at Xie Xuan and said, "Now I don't have any materials at hand, I'll just tinker with it, this luster can be maintained for three or five days at most, and Ming'er will go to the street to buy some sandalwood and deal with it again!" ”
"Brother Feng, are you doing this?" Xie Xuan's expression was a little excited, and he asked, "If this thing is old, it must be very valuable, right?" ”
The bronzes that Xie Dazhi bought back then, after expert appraisal, were all high-imitation and old-fashioned, Xie Xuan listened to his father's chatter, so he was no stranger to this word.
"This? Old-fashioned? ”
Qin Feng laughed dumbly when he heard this, threw the bracelet on the mattress casually, and said with a smile: "Little fatty, do you know what it means to be old?" Where is this thing called old? It's not worth it for me to do the old ......"
The so-called old-fashioned refers to the use of specific means to make the expression of the object the effect of the old thing, so that its surface is more similar and closer to the era imitated.
Different from the restoration of cultural relics, the old method is mostly used for tourist souvenirs and cultural relics fraud, to put it bluntly, it is fake.
However, there are also different methods of counterfeiting, if the real high imitation and restoration of the original vessel is fake, the cost is very high, sometimes even higher than the value of the real thing.
Just like the three periods of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, due to the love of the three emperors for porcelain, the palace office once imitated a batch of porcelain from the Song and Ming dynasties, and the materials and craftsmanship were completely the same as the previous dynasties, and the porcelain fired was beautiful.
In fact, this can be regarded as a fake, but the value of the created objects at that time and in later generations is not lower than the original, and some are even much higher.
This kind of fraud can only be done by the royal family, and it is not widespread and representative.
The most common in the antique market is to use chemical erodation, fire, boiling and heating, deep underground soil immersion and other means to make fake things real and use them to confuse the real with the fake.
Qin Feng smeared a little lard on the bracelet tightly, and then coiled it a little with a coarse cloth, that is, it was a little bit of a bit of a relationship with the old, but his method was passed down secretly, and in three days, even if he was an expert in identification, it was difficult to identify the authenticity.
"Brother Feng, what do you mean, let's sell this?" Xie Xuan hesitated and said: "This kind of thing is strung with wood, and it is all over the street, even if it is real, it is not worth a lot of money, right?" ”
"You're right, even if it's Xiao Ye Tan's material, it's not worth much."
Qin Feng nodded and said: "But the antique is expensive, it is more expensive than an "ancient", as long as it is an old thing, plus the so-called "inheritance" made up, it is not the price of the object itself......"
Those who do antique trading are good or bad depending on their mouths.
There was a joke in the antique shop, saying that there was an antique shop recruiting employees, and two people applied for a job at the same time, and the shopkeeper casually threw the toothpick to the ground and asked the two of them, what is this?
Obviously it was a toothpick, one of them quickly replied, it was a toothpick, but to his disappointment, the shopkeeper waved his hand directly to let him go.
As soon as he walked to the door, the man heard another person's answer, "This is the toothpick used by Lord Qianlong back then, which was preserved by the ancestor of the shopkeeper, and it is priceless!" ”
Needless to say, the latter person was admitted on the spot.
It's just that the shopkeeper forgot that except for the eunuch in charge of the emperor's living in the palace, I'm afraid that no one can save the toothpick, right? This also became a joke later.
"I understand, this is a Buddha bead, which can be said to be something worn by the Buddha." Xie Xuan was not stupid, as soon as Qin Feng's words fell, he drew inferences.
"Chubby, there are no fools in the antique shop, this thing is just a prop, and you can't cheat a few dollars with it."
Qin Feng smiled and shook his head, although Xie Xuan has a bit of spirituality, it is far from enough, people who play antiques, which one of them does not have a seven-trick exquisite heart, and will not be so easily fooled.
Seeing that Xie Xuan still wanted to ask, Qin Feng waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't ask anything now, use more eyes to see, more brain analysis, and less mouth!" ”
As the saying goes, the master leads the door to practice in an individual, Qin Feng has already said a lot, and after this bureau is completed, whether Xie Xuan can really get started depends on whether he has that understanding.
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