The Story of the Seventh World (55)
On the right side of the hall on the first floor is the elevator, at first the elevator was manufactured to amaze the world's attention, but with the rapid development of science and technology, the elevator has been gradually improved, and the safety performance has been guaranteed. Of course, the office buildings of the "mobsters" cannot use elevators built with the latest technology, but they are not outdated, after all, there are still many buildings without elevators.
The office building is powered by a DC motor, and the rope wound on the drum is driven by a worm gear reducer to hang and lift the car. In order to ensure safety, the elevator will be inspected by professional maintenance personnel every other week.
On the left is a staircase that is easy to walk on, after all, it costs a lot to turn on the elevator from time to time; An elevator is set up outside the building to prevent accidents, such as fire, and facilitate escape.
In addition to the external ladder, fire extinguishers are installed on each floor of the building, and the nearest warehouse is equipped with sufficient fire extinguishers, and these security facilities are inspected every week for safety reasons.
In the center of the hall on the first floor is a corridor with six rooms in between. Usually I store some items that are not too valuable, and the janitor has his own room on the right side of the first floor. After the auction house occupied the office building, several rooms on the first floor were used as the offices of the treasure connoisseurs, and under normal circumstances, the black market auction house only has two treasure connoisseurs, but this time it is the black market anniversary, and six treasure connoisseurs are specially recruited to relieve the pressure and deal with the uncontrollability caused by the large number of participants.
The person who received Su Hang was an elderly man in his fifties, white silk was faintly visible in his black hair, and wavy wrinkles above his gold-rimmed glasses were clearly visible.
Sitting on a wooden chair, looking at a teacup in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, he carefully observed the graphics and texts on it.
On the table in front of him was a complete set of porcelain ware.
Across the table sat a man cloaked in a cloak, his oversized boots revealing his gender.
Obviously, Su Hang was behind him, and the old appraiser was concentrating on appraising the other party's items for this man, estimating the price.
"This texture is bone china, produced by Stewood, the time seems to be from the early eighteenth century, and the distinctive feature is that there is a missing diamond on the crown at the bottom of the cup, which should have been two, but later in the production at the request of the royal family, it was reduced to one.
At that time, only Sterwood was in charge of the royal family bone china, and the symbol was the three M's, which represented the founder's surname, the earliest place where the ancient cellar was established, and the earliest name of the company. "The old appraiser introduced the situation of bone china while using two identries.
"Two cups and saucers have partial defects in gold relief, and one cup has a cracked crown gold ornament at the bottom."
"This set of Sterwood bone china has a reserve price of ÂŖ12,000 in good condition, and if you meet a bone china collector, it will be worth twice as much."
"But your set of bone china has defects and cracks, which ruins the overall beauty, and the reserve price is 3,500 pounds."
"If you're lucky, someone might buy it at a high price."
The old appraiser put down the cup in his hand, looked at the man in front of him and said indifferently.
"Try your luck on the second floor!"
"God may be on your side." The old appraiser lifted the frame of his glasses and said indifferently.
The man in the cloak was silent for a moment and said, "Thank you!" He turned and left.
Su Hang watched the other party leave, came to the place where the cloaked man was sitting just now, and sat down.
Through the cloak, he took out a small cloth bag from the inner pocket of his jacket, a small gray and black cloth bag, the mouth of which was tightened by an elastic strap.
Su Hang took out a pair of white gloves and a handkerchief from his body again, gently opened the small cloth bag, poured out the jewel bracelet from it, and placed it on the handkerchief spread out on the table.
Eight silver-white pearls are pierced by a pure white silk thread, and the golden quadrangular ornament is embedded with a rare blue diamond, which resembles a human eye, and after watching it for a long time, you will have a feeling of being gazed at by it.
The moment Su Hang took out the "Eye of the Moon", the old appraiser's eyes lit up instantly, and the gaze could be refracted to the pearl, and with the movement of the bracelet, his gaze never left.
When the old appraiser saw the bracelet being spread on the handkerchief, he immediately wanted to touch it with his hand, but the moment the hand was stretched out, he took it back, quickly took out a pair of white gloves from the table bucket, carefully looked at whether the gloves were stained with dust, and after making sure again, he put on the gloves and set his eyes on the "Eye of the Moon" again.
Gently hold the bracelet in your hand and move the handkerchief directly underneath the bracelet to prevent it from falling.
"There are very few blemishes on the surface of the pearl, but it doesn't affect the appearance." The old appraiser said after observing each pearl in turn with a magnifying glass in his hand.
"Each one is very round, very symmetrical."
"The gloss is also very good, even and vivid."
"Each one is almost the same size, not bad!"
The old appraiser looked at Su Hang and said, "This bracelet is rare just for pearls, and the auction on the second floor will have a very good price."
However, it is still much inferior to the blue diamond in the center. With few blemishes on the surface when viewed under magnification, this diamond is flawless.
(Diamond grade: defective (mostly diamonds with imperfections)
Excellent products (most of them will have some inconspicuous flaws, which are difficult to see with the naked eye)
Boutique (most of them are flaws that are difficult to see under large magnification)
Superb (flawless inside, does not affect the overall surface marks under large magnification)
Flawless (flawless inside and out under magnification)
Perfect (legendary natural diamond, flawless inside and out, unique shape...... īŧīš
Perfect diamonds only exist in legends, at least they have not been seen since the beginning of historical records. The most important point is that the Perfect Diamond is said to have incredible powers, a power that cannot be explained by science, and it is inherently indestructible, and it is perfect in every way.
The topic turned back to blue diamonds, blue diamonds are extremely rare diamonds on the market, and natural shaped diamonds are basically invisible, this blue diamond that resembles the human eye can be determined to be a pure natural shape diamond, which has never been seen on the market. â
However, flawless diamonds do not mean that they are all "Eyes of the Moon", there have been diamonds that are better than "Eyes of the Moon" in history, of course, there are also slightly insufficient, and the price will change greatly, depending on the social market at the time. However, flawless diamonds are almost invisible in modern times, and they are almost priceless.
Su Hang listened to the old appraiser say that his diamond bracelet is rare in the sky and rare on the ground, and the price must not be low.
The smile on his face appeared, and it was clear that he was in a good mood at the moment!
Looking at Su Hang with a smile on his face, the old appraiser poured a basin of cold water on his head and said: "Sir, this bracelet can be said to be a rare treasure, and it can be said that it has no price in the auction house outside, but in a place like the black market, there are not many people who are interested in it, and it is very easy to lose the auction." â
Looking at the old appraiser in front of him, Su Hang suppressed his urge not to rush up and slap this old thing, and the words of immortality extinguished the excitement in his heart in an instant.
The old appraiser didn't seem to see the change in the expression on Su Hang's face, and continued to say to himself: "But this piece of jewelry can already be climbed to the third floor, maybe there will be a certain nobleman who will take a fancy to it, but if there is no bid, then it can only be at the lowest transaction price." â
"Sir, this is your card number, with which you can store it in the storage room on the floor." The old appraiser said.
A card marked "111" was handed to Su Hang.
Su Hang silently put away the "Eye of the Moon" and the card, didn't even look at the old appraiser, and when he turned around and was about to leave, the old appraiser suddenly said: "Please help me call the next one!" â
"I really hope you can always maintain this 'innocence', sir!" Su Hang turned around and glanced at the old appraiser and said, after speaking, he opened the door and left.
Su Hang came to the elevator and caught up with a group of people preparing to go upstairs, and five or six people were slightly crowded in the small elevator room. This elevator turned out to be just a pure freight elevator, the goods were carried into the car, but people did not enter, to the corresponding floor, there will be porters waiting outside the elevator to receive.
When you step out of the elevator, you will be greeted by two receptionists who will be escorted to the auction room after confirming that they are ready to enter the auction room, and they will also be responsible for guiding the consignment customers to the storage room.
"Sir! Hello, is there anything you can help with? A receptionist at the elevator door asked.
"How do I get to the auction hall?"
"Sir, you will be led to the auction hall by a receptionist at the end of the hallway." A tall, thin receptionist said.
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When it was Su Hang's turn, without waiting for the other party to speak, Su Hang took the lead in asking, "Sir, how to get to the storage room?" â
"Sir, I'll take you!" The tall and thin receptionist led Su Hang towards the depths of the corridor.
The hallway is unfurnished, with large simple white walls and cheap sconces on both sides. The first few floors of the building were originally used by the "mobs" to store their stocks, and it was impossible to renovate them too ornately. The black market rents this building for only one day, and it is even more impossible to renovate it for the "mobs".
A minute away, the receptionist stopped in front of a double-door room, the door of the room opened one and closed another, and several senders had already walked in before Su Hang, and the receptionist led Su Hang to the door and stopped and said: "Sir, there will be a special person in charge of the room to serve you." â
"Okay."
The receptionist nodded, turned and went back the way he came.
When I walked into the room, the first thing I saw was four big men, with strong bodies, cold faces, expressionless like zombies, and a pair of eagle-like eyes staring at every visitor who walked into the room, but fortunately, the other staff members were still smiling at these customers.
The floor of the room of about 20 square meters is clean, but the walls and roof can still see cobwebs and some stains, it seems that the auction house has carried out a simple cleaning after entering the place, making the room look less unacceptable, but careful people can still find stains in the room.
Movable glass wall, walking into the room, you can see the newly developed transparent wall to isolate the internal staff and external customers, and the middle part of the three-sided partition wall is opened out of the window the size of a person's head, which is convenient for internal and external registration and storage work.
The movable glass wall was developed by a university professor in the United States, and was used by various government departments for the first two years, but due to poor secrecy and other reasons, most government departments gradually abandoned it and turned it into commercial use, and sold it to the world through the United States.
Through the glass wall, Su Hang saw two mobile bookshelves placed not far behind the staff, the bookshelves were full of sealed unknown goods, like wall bricks, blocking people's peeping eyes, but with careful attention, you can still vaguely see people in the same black clothes as the big man at the door from the gap in the bookshelf are constantly patrolling.
"Hello sir!"
"Is there anything you can help with?" A young lady with long brown hair stood behind a glass wall and asked Su Hang through the window.
"Is the item stored here?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Please show your number plate." The long-haired female staff member said.
Su Hang handed the old appraiser to him with the number plate marked "111" through the window, and the female staff took the number plate and walked to the side to register, not for a long time, the female staff returned to the window and handed Su Hang a number plate that was different from before.
A bronze plaque with a Hella engraving on the back, and the number "111" in front of it.
It seems that the black market is an unusual worship of the queen of the underworld! Or maybe there are Heerla sculptures everywhere!
"Sir, this is your number plate, you can choose to leave your treasure with us and send it directly to the auction.
Of course, you can also choose to auction now, and your treasures will be auctioned in the middle and late stages after arriving at the venue, and you can go to the backstage with the staff to hand over the treasures, but this choice is more likely to be unauctioned! The long-haired female staff member explained to Su Hang with a smile on her face.
"Good! Let's shoot now! Su Hang said without thinking about it.
It's the first time I've come to the black market.,I don't know much about the situation here.,How can you hand over the treasures you carry to the other party for safekeeping.,Since the other party has this way of shooting.,It's better to keep it yourself!
"Sir, our staff will take you to the auction hall." The long-haired female staff member said with a professional smile.
"Okay."
Su Hang turned around and walked towards the door, when a woman in her thirties walked up to Su Hang and said softly, "Sir, I will accompany you in the next trip to the black market auction house." â
"You can call me, Dai Li."
"Alright! Ms. Dai Li, I'm sorry for you! Su Hang said.
"Hello, sir, is amusing! You are the first to say thank you to us. The woman's smile was even brighter.
"I've always thought that politeness is a tradition that applies to everyone, at least that's what I think." After Su Hang finished speaking, he smiled and walked out the door.