Chapter Forty-Nine: The Seven Heavenly Ghost Session
On Monday, the seven-day ghost session arrived as promised.
When Shane arrived at the Hidden Pavilion from school, it was already bustling with people. Even outside the Hidden Pavilion, there is a circle of antique collection booths, and the collections are diverse and dazzling.
With his thin body, Shane blended like a fish in water in the crowd.
Stopping and looking around at the new stalls, she noticed that collectors here like to spread a piece of cloth on the ground and put their "treasures" on the ground in a proper manner.
Shane has seen that the vendors are very business-minded, and placing the collection on the stall can make the people who come to "Taobao shellfish" condescending, unobstructed, and easy to find the objects they are interested in.
There are also those that are placed on the table, but they are in small portions.
Shane walked to a stall and stopped, the stall was very ordinary, scattered with some messy things, the eldest sister in front of him was holding a purple clay pot in her hand, it looked like it was improperly kept, some old and flawed, and the condition was not very good, but it looked very good.
The uncle opposite is bargaining with the stall owner's eldest sister.
"Anyway, I want four thousand three, but these two books give me table legs." The uncle lifted the two books he had picked up from the corner.
She is not interested in the purple clay pot Xia En, what attracted her was the two broken books in the hands of the uncle, the tattered skin has long been unable to see what it looked like, and the number of sheets is not very much, the two books should add up to a hundred or ten pages, mediocre and featureless.
"Then add another hundred, for a total of four thousand four. I collected the book from a widow for a hundred dollars. "The eldest sister is not the one who suffers, and she has to bargain for the two broken books.
"Four thousand four is unlucky, four thousand three hundred and five, that's all."
Then the eldest sister saw that she couldn't go any further, so she agreed.
The uncle's face was impermanent, he glanced at Xia En, who was standing next to him, and then carefully put the two books in his bag, and the purple clay pot was carried in his hand casually, and he plunged into the pile of people with leisurely steps, and quickly disappeared.
Xia En witnessed the whole process on the side, and couldn't help but feel sorry for the eldest sister, if she was not mistaken, the book that the uncle took just now should be a rare book handed down during the Guangxu period, and she took a cursory look at the two ancient books when the uncle looked at them, and the reading was not very comprehensive, but the amount of information received was very large.
The first book contains the five techniques derived from the I Ching, Zhongshan and the two techniques of medicine.
The other book records the bait, charms, acupuncture, etc., the two books are conducive to the collation and restoration of the missing part of the ancient documents, and according to the knowledge recorded in them, restore the important information such as life, culture and beliefs in the Qing Dynasty at that time, which is of great value for research and collection, and belongs to the precious collection of ancient cultural relics.
A buyer like the uncle, who can be seen at a glance, is an old wolf nine times out of ten.
The so-called old wolf is a grade of the buyer's eyesight, and the buyer is divided into several grades, from top to bottom, which are eagles, old wolves, flying insects, bears blind, sheep and shrimp, etc.
Eagles are the highest level, and this kind of people are often the nightmare of stall owners, they are composed of antiquities experts, veteran players, and veteran antique shop owners, and the authenticity of all playthings will be clear in their eyes, but they rarely make a move.
The old wolf is composed of experienced players and antique shop owners with good eyesight. These people are also very powerful, and they are the actual masters of the antique market. They are experienced, have a high level, have strong purchasing power, and have good psychological quality, and are generally not likely to be deceived.
Usually these people don't pay attention to the stalls full of fakes, and can quickly spot good things in the chaos of stalls.
They are familiar with the characteristics of all kinds of fake goods and are able to automatically filter out unwanted information. Once you see something, you can negotiate it.
The other groups of people are ignorant and completely unknown, and they are also the favorites of the stall owners. Usually such buyers lack the most basic knowledge of cultural relics and culture, and basically do not have the ability to identify, so they let the stall owners make up the stories behind the things at will, so that they can believe them and then buy them.
For Shane watching from the side and not reminding the eldest sister of his behavior, the reason is very simple, there are some unwritten rules in the antique world from beginning to end, among them: you open your shop, he sells his goods, only say good things to each other, and never allow the dismantling of the counter.
So she can just watch the excitement from the sidelines, and she can't talk to disturb the buyers or sellers.
After the uncle left, Xia En went to other stalls and found that the antique markets in each place were all the same mixed and chaotic.
Because the Hidden Pavilion is a large antique market, plus the appearance of the Seven Heavenly Ghost Session. These buyers come from all walks of life, not only some professional collectors, but also some tourists, students who come to play, and foreigners who have nothing to do to join in the fun, and the crowd is really messy.
The buyers are messy, and the sellers are even more diverse, with local resident sellers.
There are local collectors who have too many things in their hands and are tired of playing and want to change them, and frankly speaking, they take advantage of the ghosts to sell the things they don't really like.
Of course, there are also hawkers who want to make money from other places, and have vision in the industry, but have no money to open a store, go to various antique shops to "hold goods", and then sell the "baggage Zhai", and there are some people who do not spend money to sell other people's things, and earn the difference in price from moving bricks.
They come from all over the world, and wherever there is a large-scale antique exchange, they will run to it in groups. This kind of person usually has something good and wants to sell it for a good price.
Shane roughly turned around the whole venue, there are a lot of real things, but there are also a lot of fakes, true and false, false and real, not only a good time for the big guys to pick up the leaks, but also a good time for sellers to make money.