Chapter 336 Famous wine, Steinway and Swedish piano
... Go to the innermost part of the restaurant, where there is a black wooden door. After opening it, it is a rural space. Go down the stairs for less than three meters, and you will find a place with many iron frames.
Liu Dong doesn't care about other things in the storage room, but the wine stored here is indeed rare.-
Since the last time he had Western food with Wang Qiang and Jiang Tingting, and was taught some knowledge about red wine by the two, Liu Dongbian learned a lot about the world's famous wines and their collections.
When I came to this storage room, I quickly identified all the alcohol stored here. Except for 'Swedish Absolut Vodka', 'Hennessy', 'Whiskey', 'Chivas Regal' and 'Remy Martin', there was only one.
To two boxes, the average is only about twenty bottles. Liu Dong also found two boxes here, totaling twenty-four bottles of Maotai in 1932. Of course, there are also the famous Chateau Lafite, Chateau Margaux and other world-famous wines.
There are nine cases of red wine from the five major wineries, totaling 114 bottles, and the vintages are all from 1930 to 1936.
In the innermost wooden box in the storage room, Liu Dong discovered that there were only six bottles of Chateau Lafite 1787 wine left.
Liu Dong didn't know much about the specific value of these wines, but he thought it was worth millions of dollars. However, compared to the value of these wines, Liu Dong was more willing to give them to friends or drink them himself. These days, such high-end wines
I found a lot of things.
After collecting all the wine inside the Mustard Seed space, Liu Dong walked out of the underground storage room and walked towards the second floor. There were many good things in the room above.
"Is this the Steinway Grand Triangle?" After Liu Dong entered the door, he looked at a black piano placed in the corner. His face showed a look of joy. For a world like Steinway
Liu Dong is no stranger to the most top-notch pianos. In his hometown in the countryside, his family has a Steinway upright piano. According to her mother, it was a wedding gift from her father and it is also the most cherished thing in her life.
When Liu Dong and his sister were young, they used that piano to learn music under the guidance of their mother. Unfortunately, Liu Dong did not have the musical talent of his sister, and his piano playing level was only average.
After waving his hand to put the dusty Steinway Grand Triangle into the space, Liu Dong thought to himself: "I finally have the gift for my sister when I go home this year!"
In addition to this Steinway grand triangle, there are also common Western instruments such as cellos and violins next to it. However, after Liu Dong put away the piano, he directly picked up the violin case on the shelf next to it. This music room
Among all musical instruments, this violin has the strongest aura.
When it comes to violins, we have to mention violin collection, and when it comes to the world's most collectible famous violins, we have to mention three families. They are Amati, Stradivari and Guerrero from the 17th to 18th centuries.
Neri and several other Italian violin making families.
These major families all come from the city of Cremona in northern Italy. Since the mid-16th century, a group of skillful violin-making masters have emerged in Cremona, and they have formed a family of violin makers through family inheritance. The three major families mentioned above
The founders of the luthier family are known as the "Father of Modern Violins", "The God of Violins, the Greatest Violin Maker" and "Violin Geniuses".
Their activity made violin making as a technology and art spread rapidly from Cremona to all of Italy, and had an indelible impact on the music and art creation of many European countries such as Austria, Germany, France, etc. It also had an indelible impact.
It established the violin's status as the central string instrument.
Guins made by classic violin makers can appreciate by 10% to 20% every year, and the appreciation rate of famous instruments from these major families is even more astonishing. In the 1990s, researchers at the University of Cincinnati in the United States conducted a special study to compare three types of instruments.
The appreciation of investment instruments, namely U.S. Treasury bonds, stocks and antique violins.
The appreciation of the violin is much higher than the first two investments, so the violin as an investment object can be said to be the best choice for collectors. The value of a top-quality Sri Lankan violin and a melon violin has an auction price of no less than two million US dollars.
However, this is in the West, and domestic violin collections are still a niche. However, this is worthy of the value of top-notch collections such as melons and splendid violins.
The violin in Liu Dong's hand was the most authentic Sri Lankan violin. Through the relic Yuan Guang, he could clearly see that on the inner panel of the violin was "Stradivarius, Windsor, made in 1716!"
"I didn't expect that this piano was actually made in 1716?" Liu Dong said happily.
Anyone who likes violin collection knows that the most popular Sri Lankan-style violins are a group of violins made during the so-called "golden period" of Sri Lanka, which was about 1700 to 1725. There are several special years.
Collectors are particularly excited about this. For example, 1716 is considered to be the year when some of the best violins were produced.
The most expensive violin, the Messiah violin, worth more than 20 million US dollars, was Stradivari's work in 1716.
"You can't really be so lucky, right?" Liu Dong was afraid that he had seen it wrong, and even rubbed his eyes. After looking at it several times, he excitedly clenched his fist. This one looked like a new one.
The 'Windsor', which is an ordinary instrument and has no defects at all, is a Scottish instrument from 1716.
After seeing this, Liu Dongzhen put the 1716 Sri Lankan-style violin, which could drive all violinists in the world crazy, back into the case, and then put it into the mustard space.
With this extremely precious Sri Lankan piano and the huge Dürer oil painting held by Mu Gang downstairs, Liu Dong felt that this trip to Qingdao was really worth it.
In addition to this Sri Lankan piano and the Steinway grand triangle just now, the cello next to it is also extraordinary, but it is far behind the Sri Lankan piano. However, Liu Dong still put away most of the instruments here.
, no matter how you say it, it is a top-notch musical instrument that has been around for more than half a century and is worth a lot of money.
Afterwards, Liu Dong walked around the second and third floors again, collecting some German books and mechanical clocks, as well as some old oil paintings, sculptures and other decorations. These things are similar to those of the late Qing Dynasty in China.
The kiln porcelain is the same as the fine product and has value, but the value is not high.
After walking around and realizing that nothing was missing, Liu Dong went downstairs. Although the thin middle-aged man and his companions were a little puzzled that Liu Dong only took away an oil painting after spending 10,000 yuan.
', but after receiving the money, the two of them didn't ask any questions.
After getting the things, Liu Dong quickly left with Mu Gang and Xie Zhonglin.
Of course, this time they did not go to the antique street on Changle Road, but went directly back to the hotel. Due to time constraints, Liu Dong did not have time to appreciate such a big harvest just now. Now is the opportunity. And these collections are on
There is too much dust accumulated over the past half century, and Liu Dong needs to clean it up too!
Xie Zhonglin didn't ask much about Liu Dong turning back to the hotel. It happened that he didn't really want to go out on a hot day. If it weren't for the reason of currying favor with Liu Dong, he would just go to the underground casino here or other entertainment venues to be cool.
one time.
When Liu Dong and Mu Gang entered the hotel with the oil painting over four meters in length, they were inevitably questioned. Then they went through some twists and turns when they went upstairs, and finally managed to get the original Dürer painting.
I got back to my presidential suite. Fortunately, I was protected by Liu Dong's relic Yuan Guang. Otherwise, the bumps along the way would have knocked off the oil paint on this great work.
In the afternoon after that, Liu Dong stayed in his room and did not go out again. It was not until 6:30 in the evening that Xie Zhonglin knocked on the door of his room, and then Liu Dong took Mu Gang down for dinner. As for Dürer's paintings, he had already
It has been included in the mustard space. If anyone is confused, Liu Dong has a hundred excuses to explain.
After dinner, Liu Dong returned to his room, took out a piece of bean seed jade material from the mustard seed space, and carved a child-giving Guanyin, until 10 o'clock in the evening.
"Mr. Liu, I'm already here!"
"Well, wait a moment, we'll go there right away!" After a brief chat, Liu Dong took Mu Gang and Xie Zhonglin to drive towards the pier. There were few cars at night, so their speed was quite good.
Quickly, in about half an hour, we arrived at Qingdao Port, China's second largest foreign trade port with a handling capacity of 100 million tons, an important international trade port and one of the maritime transportation hubs on the west coast of the Pacific.
Although the port is indeed very large, there is telephone contact, so it is not troublesome to find both parties.
"Mr. Wichai has been sleeping and sleeping all the way, thank you for your hard work!"
"There, Mr. Liu is too polite!"
"I wonder who this is...?" he said in confusion after shaking hands with Liu Dong.
"Oh, this is Xie Zhonglin, Boss Xie! We jointly established a stone gambling company. This time, the two of us will eat Mr. Weichai's rough stone together!"
Hearing Liu Dong's words, although he didn't know the details of the cooperation between the two, the gambling stone he brought this time was worth 150 million. It was obvious that the rich Xie could make Liu Dong say the word cooperation.
The boss must have invested a lot, probably no less than 50 million. And these days, those who can invest half a million into the stone gambling business are all very big customers. For such big customers,
"Thank you, boss! I believe our cooperation this time will be very pleasant!" Because both of them are new to the business and don't know each other very well, they speak more cautiously.
"Then let me borrow Mr. Weichai's good advice!";--66688+dsuaahhh+25205479-->