Chapter 22: Counting the Buddha Beads

Moreover, this table lamp was made in 1907, when Tiffany & Co. was already in its twilight years, and its status and artistic standards were at its peak, and the price was definitely higher.

Regardless of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, the principle of playing collecting is the same, Wen Zhengming's forty-year-old calligraphy and his ninety-year-old calligraphy and painting price is a lot different.

However, it is difficult to say exactly how much it can be worth, and the engine at this time cannot find more information.

Chang Xian is a little skeptical of life, just this thing, starting with hundreds of thousands of dollars?

If you want to surpass the two calligraphy and paintings of Pu Ru at hand, how big a hole does this brain have?

Also, who made this ugly countryman?

An industrial country with a history of only more than 200 years, and no writing of its own, it is good to be literate, what else can you expect?

Adhering to the law that the more you lack something, the more you value what you like to show off, what kind of table lamp is more or less a cultural object, isn't it?

When it comes to national pride, the value is immediately different.

Hehe!

At this time, Boss Chang hopes that the international friends on the other side of the ocean will see this broken thing as their heirloom jade seal!

You can earn foreign exchange by visiting a ghost market, and Boss Chang is also unique.

How did this thing come to Jinmen across the sea, and I often estimate that it is the contribution made by the side of the Fifth Avenue, after all, it is a concession, and it is normal to come out with some foreign falls.

It's a bit troublesome that this thing can't be sold at a high price in China, and how to get rid of ugly countries is also a problem, and there are no foreign-funded auction houses in China.

But don't dwell on the details.

So Boss Chang happily wrote it down in the account book:

Tiffany signature table lamp, a.

When it comes to some place names in Jinmen, it is natural to think of the word "Gu", which is usually called 72 Gu. In the lower reaches of the Ji Canal, the villages along the banks are mostly called "Gu".

60 kilometers east of Jinmen urban area, is for Hangu. "Hangu" was originally a village on the east bank of the Ji Canal on the bank of the Xiaoyan River, since ancient times it was a place of salt production, the river was dug in the late Eastern Han Dynasty to transport official salt, and it was named after the dynasty (Han) and the river (Gu).

It is the morning, the work of the work, the walking of the birds, the land of Jingu is empty and quiet.

There are flowers planted in front of each door, vines climbing on the houses, blue bricks and gray tiles, simple and natural, if it were not for the occasional visible vehicles and telephone poles, there is really a sense of time and space chaos.

Chang • Shovel • Idle stopped Dafa at the entrance of the village, pushed out a small tricycle from the car, and broke in from the outside customs.

He was wearing a dusty long-sleeved shirt, stepping on a pair of black cloth shoes, holding a big horn, and shouting from time to time: "Collect old furniture, old porcelain, jade seals, bamboo and wood cultural plays, and the four treasures of the study!"

As the saying goes, do a line of love and love a line, just this voice, he practiced secretly for two hours before he barely shouted like a mallet.

Outsiders may look at it quite coldly, but he enjoys it, the land of Jingu is at my disposal, pedaling three rounds to collect antiques, no pressure, leisurely, how many people can enjoy this feeling?

Traditionally, there are two types of antique dealers who collect things.

One is to go to the countryside in person, go from house to yard and walk around, which is called counting Buddha beads, which means counting them one by one, which is very hard, but the probability of picking up leaks is high, and you can often get good objects at a very cheap price.

There is also a kind called waiting rabbit, which is generally in the most lively and well-informed places in the town, such as inns, with a golden toad and a stack of copper coins pressed on its head. This is to tell the locals, I came to your place to receive goods, and there are good things at home that can be brought to the inn, bought and sold on the spot, and waited for the rabbit.

There are subtle differences between the two.

For example, in large antique provinces such as Henan and Shaanxi, they generally count Buddha beads, and they would rather look for them in one trip, because there are many good things.

Waiting for rabbits to pass by some places that are not so rich in monuments, they are not familiar with the place, and they may not be able to dig up good things, so they simply show signs for people to take the initiative to come to the door.

Modern society is not like the past, the scale of towns is large, the flow of people is large, there are many hotels and inns, and the rabbits are slowly decreasing, but the number of Buddha beads has prevailed in these years, specifically looking for rural areas or tomb robbers to receive goods, and then sell them to various merchants after getting things, and people in the industry call them "guerrillas", also called "shoveling land".

However, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and some people think that it is not wrong to go to the countryside to buy goods from farmers, but they do not know that some of the goods are deliberately "planted mines" by counterfeit businessmen in partnership with farmers, and it is also common to take medicine by taking medicine.

"Collect old furniture, old porcelain, jade seals, bamboo, wood and bronze, and the four treasures of the study!"

The village lives along the Thistle Canal, and from time to time you can see men, women and children dotted around, chatting and talking nonsense, while busy with some work on their hands.

Often idle and slow riding, the wheels slowly rolled, seeing that most people are just curious to watch, and there is no interest in the meaning, he is not in a hurry, he has received a few times in the city before, this is the first time to come to the countryside, while driving to make money. The mentality is great.

"Hey! Sister, do you have old antiques, old furniture, old porcelain or anything in your house?"

"Hey, don't go, auntie, let's talk again!"

"Big brother, do we have any old things that we don't use? Take it out and take a look. “

"Uncle, how about resting? Do you have an old abacus, an old table, an old chair or anything like that?"

……

Chang Xian is the director of the office, so he has long been trained to be cheeky, and he can talk to anyone.

He walked and stopped, stopped and walked, asked many villagers, and followed the master into some people's homes, but he still collected a few things and put them in the tricycle.

I saw a small square in front of me, the square was empty, and there was a row of unnamed trees planted at the east end, and there were several stone grinders under the trees. It was supposed to be the political and cultural center of the village.

I often leisurely parked the tricycle under the tree, drank saliva, and sat on the stone mill, alas, innocent blue!

As soon as the brain moved, under the shadow of the copper coin, hundreds of meters from front to back, left and right were all in the induction. Now every family has something valuable, so there are a lot of spiritual senses, and often idle can only be excluded according to probability.

For example, some homes are scattered, it may be high-end furniture and jewelry purchased at home, and the probability of antiques is not high, but there are more than ten spiritual senses gathered in one place, and the possibility is high.

From a distance, the family seems to be a three-story building, and the architectural style is also a bit of a traditional Beijing style.