Chapter 269: Western Antiques

With doubts, Qin Han set off.

When Qin Han set off, Tessen was also in the luxurious suite of the hotel, waiting for Qin Han's arrival with his men.

"Do you think Qin Han will pass the assessment?" Lilith looked at Terson.

"It should pass, right?" Tessen's face was a little gloomy.

The plan to recruit Qin Han was reported to the overseas headquarters, but the headquarters did not directly approve it, but decided to conduct an assessment.

What the headquarters needs is a person who is proficient in international antique appraisal and has the ability to authenticate antiques from various countries, rather than specializing in a particular country.

Tessen was helpless, although he was the leader of an action group and had a lot of power, he had to be under the jurisdiction of the headquarters.

He couldn't disobey the decision of the headquarters, so he could only choose to obey the order, which made him feel very bad.

"How many of these antiques are genuine?" Lilith looked at the antiques in the luxury suite, there were ten in total.

"I don't know, the headquarters only sent antiques." When he said this, Terson's face became even more ugly.

When the headquarters sent the antiques, they did not inform them of the authenticity of the antiques, obviously because they couldn't trust them and were worried that they would do something.

After they were asked to evaluate Qin and Han, they would send the appraisal conclusions back to the headquarters.

It's a bad feeling to be distrusted.

didn't make them wait too long, Qin Han arrived.

"Mr. Qin, I'm very sorry, I'm sorry for your trouble, these are the antiques we collected before, because we can't be sure whether they are real or fake, we haven't been able to make a move..."

He brought Qin Han into the living room and pointed to the ten antiques placed in the living room.

It was all sent by the headquarters through different channels, and he really collected it himself, because there was no way to say it directly to Qin Han in the assessment.

After all, he has not succeeded in recruiting Qin Han, if he directly talks about the assessment, it is easy to arouse Qin Han's disgust, and he will not make such a low-level mistake.

"After the appraisal is completed, I will choose one of them in addition to the reward I deserve!" Qin Han was slightly surprised, there were really a lot of good things.

"This... Let me call and ask, because there is something that is not ours—" Tessen hesitated.

Qin Han nodded.

Tessen immediately went to another room to make a call, and only came back after a quarter of an hour, like Qin Han nodded: "You can choose any one!" ”

"Thank you!"

Qin and Han immediately began to identify.

Of the ten antiques, none of them belong to the hot summer, all of them are Western antiques.

What caught the most attention of the Qin and Han dynasties was a long knife and an oil painting, the long knife was covered with exquisite strange patterns, and the oil painting was a portrait of a person.

Others, on the surface, look like boutiques.

The first thing Qin Han picked up was a steel knife covered with flowing water-like lines, and flicked his fingers on the knife body.

Choke!

A distant and pure metal resounding sounded for a long time.

With a wave of his hand, there was a sharp whistling.

"Is there such an appraisal of ancient weapons?" At the door, Lilith asked Tessen in a low voice.

"No, at least I haven't seen it, but every appraiser has his own unique secrets to some extent, maybe he just appraises." Tessen was also a little strange.

"That's right, as long as he doesn't destroy it, it doesn't matter how he identifies it." Lilith nodded.

The ultimate goal of their need for an appraiser is to authenticate the authenticity of antiques, and there is no regulation on how to authenticate them.

While they were muttering quietly, Qin Han had already begun to identify oil paintings, trying on self-portraits that looked messy.

Some places are very regular, and some places are very abstract.

The two different styles were forcibly pieced together, which looked weird, and Qin Han put it down after watching it for a few minutes.

Half an hour later, Qin and Han were all identified.

"Do you want to re-appraisal, we have plenty of time, don't worry..."Seeing that Qin Han had completed the appraisal, Tessen said.

He has seen the master of antiques more than once to identify antiques, unless some characteristics are very obvious, it takes a long time to identify, sometimes it takes several hours, or even a few days to study, and Qin and Han only need a few minutes to identify each piece, which is a bit too fast.

"No, I've seen it clearly." Qin Han shook his head.

"Okay, then please tell me the result," Tessen said with a little excitement.

Lilith immediately sat down next to her, opened her notebook, and prepared to write down all the conclusions of Qin Han's identification.

"First of all, the Damascus steel knife, do you think it's real or fake?" Qin Han picked up the steel knife.

"It looks like it's real, but I can't say for sure," Tessen shook his head.

"He's real, you see..."Qin Han said as he grabbed the tip of the knife with one hand and the handle with the other, and then began to bend the Damascus knife.

"Be careful, you'll ruin it..."Tessen was a little anxious, but he didn't dare to approach, for fear that once Qin Han let go, the blade would bounce and hurt him.

"Don't worry, the real Damascus steel knife is very tough, even if you do it like me, as soon as you let go, you can immediately return to its original shape..."Qin Han said as he demonstrated, bending the Damascus steel knife, and the tip of the knife was connected to the handle to form a regular ring.

Let go, holding only the hilt, the Damascus steel knife is straight again.

Then Qin Han twisted the handle of the knife hard, and he heard a click, and the handle of the knife actually broke from it.

Terson's eyes are about to pop out, are they broken?

"You see, in fact, the biggest mystery of this knife is that the handle of the knife is made into a cavity, which can secretly store some small items, and can also store first-aid medicines, and you look inside, there are some ancient magical country characters, which can obviously prove that the Damascus steel knife is real..."Qin Han showed the broken handle to Tessen.

Tessen's eyes lit up as soon as he saw it, and sure enough, it was true.

If you had known that the handle of the knife had a mechanism and opened it earlier, you would not need Qin Han at all, and any clever appraiser would have been able to identify it.

The problem was not seen by anyone, only Qin Han saw it.

Now it is basically certain that this one is a Damascus steel knife, a real ancient Damascus steel knife, not the Damascus steel knife that is now flooded on the market, those are imitated by other processes after the ancient Damascus steel knife forging technology is lost, which is far less than the real ancient Damascus steel knife.

The real ancient Damascus steel knife, like the one in Qin Han's hand now, is definitely worth more than 100 million.

"Now let's look at the next one, this self-portrait..."Qin Han picked up the oil self-portrait, which was a self-portrait of a middle-aged man.

"Who do you think it's drawing?" Qin Han asked Tessen.

"It's a bit like Van Gogh, but it's so messy that there's no payment, and it's possible that someone gave Van Gogh a portrait...," Tessen said.

"You're wrong, it's not someone who painted Van Gogh, it's Van Gogh's self-portrait."

"How is that possible?"

"Of course it's possible, you see..."Qin Han said and picked up the Damascus knife next to him, the tip of the knife was like the lower left corner of an oil painting, and slashed down.

Terson's eyes are so big, do you do this? Do you go under the knife if you don't agree with each other?

But Qin Han's movements were too fast, and he didn't have time to stop them at all.

After Qin Han cut it down, he found that Qin Han had missed it with one sword, and only rubbed the oil painting for a while, but did not destroy the oil painting.

Tessen let out a sigh of relief, a blessing in misfortune.

"What do you think this is?" Qin Han took down the oil painting and asked Terson to look at the lower left corner.

The lower left part of the painting was scraped off a little bit, making the paint a little thinner, and faintly revealing some black lines.

"It looks like it's a signature...", Tessen waits for you to take a closer look: "It's Van Gogh's signature, and the date, March 1887!" ”

Tessen was excited, he had seen Van Gogh's original works many times in the museum and was familiar with Van Gogh's signature.

Now that a layer of paint has been scraped off by the Qin and Han dynasties, the signature that faintly reveals is exactly the same as Van Gogh's signature that I have seen in the museum.

In other words, this one has a portrait, and it is really a self-portrait of Van Gogh.

If it is really Van Gogh's work, even if it is not a representative work or the best, it can be sold for at least thousands, trillions.

"How do you see that?" Tessen looked at Qin Han puzzled.

He could see the signature, because just now Qin Han stabbed down, and the paint covering the top of the signature scraped off a little, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see it at all.

But when Qin Han looked at it just now, his signature was tightly covered.

"Can't I guess?" Qin Hancai didn't want to explain.

"Okay, you guess!" Tessen didn't bother to ask, because the top people in every industry may have some unique tricks that are kept secret.

No matter who asked, it would arouse the disgust of the other party, and he didn't want to arouse Qin Han's disgust.

In fact, he is very excited now, ten pieces, there are actually two authentic works, and he has made a lot of money.

The next eight pieces, six of which are problematic, are either high imitations or defective products.

After Qin Han explained everything, Lilith sorted out the results of Qin Han's identification, and then sent them back to the headquarters, waiting for the conclusions of the headquarters.

"As I said just now, I want to choose any one except the payment, and I want to take the Damascus steel knife." Qin Han spoke.

One of the most important materials for real ancient Damascus steel knives is meteoric iron, so they are very rare.

In particular, the real ancient Damascus steel knife forging technology has been lost, and it has not been restored until now, resulting in fewer and fewer real ancient Damascus steel knives, and I am afraid that the number of surviving in the world is less than double digits, and if there is a chance to have one, of course Qin Han will not be merciful.

"Well, I knew you would want it, a real man will definitely choose a knife!" Tessen said with great regret.

Qin Han took the Damascus steel knife and left satisfied.

In the luxurious suite of the hotel, Tessen and the others waited for the conclusion of the headquarters in order to calculate how much compensation should be given to Qin Han.

"Tessen, the conclusion of the headquarters is here..."Half an hour after Qin Han left, Lilith received a reply from the headquarters.

"What's the conclusion?" Tessen strode over.

"Qin Han's appraisal has an accuracy rate of only seventy percent, which does not meet the recruitment requirements of the headquarters for special talents, but allows us to recruit ourselves and become members of our team, rather than direct personnel of the headquarters."

"How can it be only seventy percent?" Tessen was shocked.

"Because there are three mistakes, the Damascus steel knife, the self-portrait, the scepter, all of which are high imitations, the headquarters has already concluded ..."

"How is that possible? Could it be that Qin Han's identification was really wrong? A great mystery arose in Tessen's mind.

Although he has a certain degree of appraisal ability, his appraisal ability is not top-notch, otherwise he would not have the intention of recruiting Qin Han.

The question is Qin Han's appraisal conclusion, and Qin Han's appraisal basis, he thinks it is very reasonable, how can there be a problem?

"Lilith, you sort out the basis of Qin Han's appraisal in detail, and send it back to the headquarters for re-examination..."Tessen said.