Without saying anything else, Qian Qinggu directly opened a wooden box.
Chen Wenzhe took a look and saw a bunch of seals inside, and they were all Dahongpao, which was the best among chicken blood stones.
Unfortunately, the color seems a little wrong, it feels too new and too bright. If it were genuine, its value would be much higher.
However, no matter how he looked, he couldn't see anything fake. Is this the real thing?
"This is my first collection. I was deceived. I spent more than three million to buy these six seals. You must know that it was thirty years ago."
Chen Wenzhe was even more surprised when he heard what Qian Qinggu said.
Thirty years ago, it was the 1990s. At that time, Qian Qinggu could actually spend more than three million to collect chicken blood stone seals?
Chen Wenzhe couldn't help but take out one and look at it. When he saw it, he was even more surprised.
This is a seal from the Qianlong period, and it is the seal of one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, Li Fangying.
This is a famous painter, calligrapher and seal carver.
This bloodstone seal was created by Li Fangying when he was 52 years old.
The seal is engraved on it: the year of Dingmao, the 11th year of Qianlong.
This seal is 80% red.
You must know that 50% of the bloodstone seal is red, which belongs to the Dahongpao level.
Look at the printed text again: Earn one's own livelihood.
There seems to be no problem, everything looks good, but Qian Qinggu has made it very clear just now that he was deceived because of these seals.
Since it has been cheated, it is a fake.
But no matter how Chen Wenzhe looked, he couldn't see anything fake!
This is amazing. If he doesn't use any means, he will have to keep an eye out for fakes of this level.
"At that time, a friend of mine gave it to me in a private transaction because he knew that I liked soapstone and was rich."
Chen Wenzhe was speechless. Is there anyone who doesn't know about such a scam involving private transactions between friends?
But in the 1990s, there were many people who were deceived like this.
In the antique market, it is often difficult to guarantee private transactions, and the outcome is nothing more than admitting to a fight or accepting a defeat.
Needless to say, Qian Qinggu definitely accepted it!
Since you can't understand, then you have to resort to tricks. Chen Wenzhe really wants to learn this level of counterfeiting technology.
He doesn't want to use this technique to deceive people, but he can't let others deceive him!
These high imitations have a history of more than 30 years, so once he got started, Chen Wenzhe saw a perfect scam.
In fact, in the 1990s, picking up leaks was quite rare, and it can be said that the chances of picking up missing pieces were basically the same as winning the lottery.
Because in the antique market of that period, counterfeiting could be said to have become a common practice.
Collection enthusiasts with poor eyesight may be deceived if they are not careful. This is the so-called magic!
At that time, the skills of counterfeiters were so sophisticated that it was enough to astound the world.
Moreover, counterfeiting involves many types of items, especially small antique items such as inkstones, seal stones, woodware, lacquerware, small carvings, etc.
There are really many ways to counterfeit these items, not to mention the chicken blood stones that are often priced in tens of millions of dollars.
The seal in Chen Wenzhe's hand could not be discerned as genuine or fake, so it naturally had something special about it.
This kind of seal must be made from ordinary Chang stone.
The color of blood in this stone is caused by chemicals smeared and penetrated. It has been made many times and is highly imitated.
It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the authenticity of it. The acquirer often hears about its reputation and spends money to buy a stone seal. Who would have thought that it is worthless?
For fake chicken bloodstones like this, many experts can be fooled by this method alone.
Most of these people use chemicals like mercury sulfide and then dry it in the shade. After the mercury sulfide takes effect, they apply it again and then dry it in the shade. This is repeated many times, not to mention increasing the layering of the blood color, and
It is not easy to discover its authenticity.
The counterfeit products that have been processed in this way are still only semi-finished products. The counterfeiters will soak them in resin for a long time, take them out to dry in the shade and polish them with fine sand before they are completed.
The ordinary Changshi stone treated with this technique has a delicate and lifelike color, and the blood color in the stone is even more charming.
Faced with such counterfeit goods, not to mention some ordinary collectors, even some real experts have "eyeballed" them.
Some collectors always like to play psychological tactics, thinking that the products introduced by acquaintances should not be fake, and the price is so high, it is impossible to use fake and shoddy products to confuse the real ones. This idea is actually wrong!
In the world of antique collecting, real things cannot be fake, but fake ones can be mistaken for real ones!
Obviously, the six seals in Qian Qinggu's hands are fakes that are not authentic.
Picking up the seals one by one, Chen Wenzhe discovered that these six seals were actually the soapstone seals of six of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and they were all made of Dahongpao texture.
Of the Eight Monsters of Yangzhou, six were collected, only two were missing.
I think Qian Qinggu must have been regretting that he was missing two coins?
He never thought that these six coins were all fakes, right?
"Did you see it?"
"I can tell, whoever does this is really a master!"
"Haha, I knew you were also a master, Xiao Chen. Tell me, how did you tell?"
Qian Qinggu had already stated from the beginning that this was a fake, and he had no intention of deceiving Chen Wenzhe, because he knew that he probably wouldn't be able to deceive him.
Chen Wenzhe naturally knew this, but if there was no golden finger, he might really have been deceived.
The six seals in front of me are already the most sophisticated means of counterfeiting chicken blood stones.
In fact, this is the most top-notch fake created by combining two top-level counterfeiting methods.
At the beginning, the bloodstone must have been made by dipping, and this method was used to make the fake bloodstone.
If time passes, you can see the flaws.
It is obvious that these seals have been processed twice.
Just looking at the appearance, you will find that there is no obvious change in the resin on it.
You know, anything that is fake cannot be true.
For example, this kind of fake bloodstone, because the resin is easy to age, the skin will turn yellow over time, which is inconsistent with the color of the stone inside. At the same time, the pores on the resin skin are relatively thick. If you look carefully with a magnifying glass, you will see a little tiny scratches on the surface.
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However, using this method to identify fake chicken bloodstones requires experience. You have to see real chicken blood stones and know what they really look like before you can identify the fake ones.
Moreover, there is a certain time limit. If the fake time is too short, many flaws will not be visible and will not be visible.
What's more, the six bloodstone seals in front of me were faked using the filling method.
This is real soapstone, then add mercury sulfide, and cover the added part with a very thin layer of resin.
This kind of counterfeit soapstone will look like what it is now after polishing.