In 2002, the house price in Chuzhou in a good location was no more than 1,000 square meters, and in a bad location, it was 911 square meters.
Even a well-decorated villa only cost RMB 2,560 per square meter at that time, and RMB 600,000 could buy a small single-family villa of more than 200 square meters.
This amount of money is definitely not a small amount.
Although Yongxuan blue and white is precious, the price will not plummet if there is a hole in the bottle, but the real value at that time was only two to three hundred thousand at most.
No one necessarily wants this, because the value of residual utensils is too unstable. It is said that the wealth of a family is not as good as a piece of Ru porcelain, but I have never seen anyone sell their family property to exchange for a piece of Ru kiln!
It’s all just words.
Mr. Pan asked Zhongchenglou for his opinion, and he said: "If you have more money, you can buy it. If you have less money, don't buy it. In addition, you have to do appraisal business!"
Later, Mr. Pan personally told the bottle seller that he couldn't raise enough money and didn't need the deposit.
The plum vase seller was quite happy and refunded 90,000 yuan of the 100,000 yuan deposit in order to keep the Pan family secret.
This is also because the other party is a good person. If he does not refund even a cent of the deposit, the Pan family will definitely publicize it, and then this bottle will definitely not be sold in Chuzhou.
In the end, the bottle was bought by a well-known collector in Chuzhou. It was not until two years later that the glaze peeled off in the incompletely repaired area that the collector knew it had been done.
But I have a good attitude, and what I want is a genuine Yongxuan blue and white piece in my study. It doesn’t matter whether it has a hole or has been repaired. I keep the plum vase in my hand. It is said that its value has appreciated now, and some people have spent ten times as much. I bought it at the price, but they still didn’t sell it.
But at that time, Zhongzhonglou's kindness to his Pan family was as great as heaven's.
First of all, the Pan family's financial resources do not allow them to hold a high-priced antique for a long time. Just borrowing interest money from relatives and friends can kill him.
In addition, collectors can collect without being afraid of eye-catching. Who hasn’t had time to eye-catching yet?
But the Pan family is also engaged in the antique appraisal business. If the eye-catching things get out, no one will come to him to authenticate things. Who else will make money from this?
This is different from those scam companies that cheat appraisal fees. The Pan family's appraisal business is real, and they specialize in the business of wealthy people.
No matter how rich people are, they don’t want to spend money frivolously. Some rich people ask people like Mr. Pan or Pan Shichuan to look after them before buying antiques.
Only spend a lot of money to buy real objects. If it is a fake, you will definitely not buy it. No one’s money comes from the strong wind. This is the same as those stone gambling consultants.
Antiques are not bought every day, nor are they sold every day, but there are many people who appraise antiques. Now Pan Shichuan's minimum charge for appraising an antique is 10,000 yuan, while Shen Yu only charges 200 yuan for appraising an antique. Compared with others, the world is as bad as heaven and earth.
Shen Yu only earns a few thousand yuan from his hard work in a month, but others can earn it in half an hour.
Of course, this is not entirely a matter of strength. Shen Yu boasts that he is not worse than others without the special ability to identify treasures.
Mainly due to fame and age!
If you don’t have a reputation, sometimes your words are just air. For example, even if a young man in his twenties knows that an ancient painting is a fake, three old appraisers with white hair and beards who are well-known in the antique shop say that the painting is authentic. , then this painting is authentic, no matter how much you say, it is useless.
Shen Yu's current business is entirely due to his grandfather's reputation, because his name is Zhonglou!
Shen Yu asked himself that if he raised the appraisal fee to 1,000 yuan, the previous regular customers would definitely leave, even relying on his grandfather's name would not work.
"Since Fan Shigui gave this painting to you as a gift of apology, just keep it. Although it is a framed fake, it is still good overall." Pan Shichuan pointed to the painting left by Fan Shigui. "Picture of an Ancient Temple in the Deep Mountains" said with a smile.
Shen Yu asked with some confusion: "Brother Pan, you haven't seen this painting, so why do you say that Fan Shigui is a liar?"
What Shen Yu means is, how can you know whether this painting is authentic or fake if you haven't even used it?
But Pan Shichuan was happy: "To be honest, brother Pan, I should be the first one to see this painting in this flea market. The person selling the painting is a small owner who has closed his shop in the flea market.
"One more thing, Fan Shigui and my family are family friends. They have been good brothers since my grandfather's generation. The same is true for my father's generation. When it comes to our generation, they occupy the same generation. They are both named Shichuan. My name is Shichuan. , His name is Shigui.
"But this guy is naturally lazy. Not to mention full of bad intentions, but he also does a lot of cheating. After Uncle Fan passed away, he borrowed five or six hundred thousand yuan from me here and there. He needs to Not because Uncle Fan hurt me when he hit me, I kicked him away!
"By the way, what day is it today?"
Shen Yu replied in confusion: "Today is the weekend and Sunday!"
"Let me think about it, yes, the young boss went to my store to sell paintings on Thursday. I was not in the store at the time and was shopping for clothes with your sister-in-law at Chuzhou Donggu Department Store.
"I received a call from the store clerk saying that someone was selling paintings in the store, and it was probably an authentic painting by Tang Yin. I almost had high blood pressure and rushed back with one foot in a new shoe and one in an old shoe."
"Pfft."
Shen Yu couldn't help laughing when he heard Pan Shichuan's words.
Worried that Pan Shichuan had misunderstood, Shen Yu quickly explained: "Brother Pan, I'm not laughing at you for being anxious. If it were me, I would run back without even wearing shoes!
"It's just that your escape technique is much better than urine escape or something like that. You can escape in seconds!"
Pan Shichuan coughed in embarrassment: "To be honest, I was anxious when I heard about Tang Yin's authenticity, but I wouldn't be so anxious. You also know that among these married men, five out of ten are not willing to sacrifice their wives for shopping.
"This isn't shopping, it's really killing me! It's a waste of time, it's boring, it's just exhausting, both physically and mentally. When I hear your sister-in-law ask me to go shopping with her, my blood pressure rises. Now that there is a big business coming to the store, how long will it take if I don’t wait?
"I went back to the shop, burned incense, washed my hands, opened the scroll, and after just one glance, I felt something was wrong. First of all, I have never heard of "Ancient Temple in the Mountains" among Tang Yin's famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. However, it is said that Tang Yin's good friend and junior fellow student was also a member of the four great masters of the Wu clan. Qiu Ying has one.
"Then I found Qiu Ying's seal in this painting. Here it is." Pan Shichuan said while pointing at the upper left corner of the painting.
Shen Yu raised his eyes and saw that it was an exquisite dark red seal with the characters "Shizhou" in it.
"Shizhou is right. This is Qiu Ying's brand name, but it uses Babao ink pad. Are you kidding? How come Qiu Ying's seal uses ink pad invented in the Qing Dynasty?
"One theory is that the Eight Treasure Seal Clay was created in Kangxi, and another is that it was created in Qianlong, but there is no doubt that it was created in the Qing Dynasty. There was no such thing in the Ming Dynasty."
Shen Yu was surprised when he heard this. He looked and saw that the seal was not a watermark, but the eight-treasure ink pad in the mimeograph. "Brother Chuan, I really didn't realize this if you didn't tell me."
Sure enough, ginger is still spicier, and you can find it in such subtle places.
There are two versions of Babao ink pad. One is that it was created in Kangxi. It is made from eight precious traditional Chinese medicines: musk, pearl, monkey date, agate, coral, plum slice, amber and moxa, which are ground into powder. It was originally a kind of The expensive ointment for treating trauma can remove toxins and promote muscle growth to speed up wound healing.
Later, I don't know who could not find the ink pad when making a seal, so I used this ointment as an ink pad. After the seal was printed, the color was bright and the imprint was clear, which was several times better than ordinary ink pads.
Later, the formula was improved again, adding aged castor oil, magenta, gold foil and other materials to become the current eight-treasure ink pad.
There is also the Qianlong Eight Treasures Ink Pad Theory, which is a palace formula. Among the eight treasures are pearl powder, cinnabar, ruby, red gold powder, stalactite, coral shavings, clam powder, and crystal powder.
No matter which type it is, the advantages of Babao ink pads such as being bright and bright, not getting moldy in rainy days, not greasy in summer, not freezing in winter, and never fading are real.
"It seems that I have to be more careful when appraising things in the future!"
***The author has something to say***
I’m late to visit relatives during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Please recommend me. (Cold fist.)
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