Chapter 240: Strange Design
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What Jin Muchen said is also half true and half false. Judging from the shape of the pen holder, it should be an old item from the Qing Dynasty back then, and it is indeed very worn, which really makes this pen holder greatly reduce the price.
But what he didn't say was that this pen holder is made of rosewood, and this item alone is very valuable.
What's more, he still has purple jade space, which can repair such a pen holder. Once this pen holder is repaired, the price will be hard to say.
"So that's how it is!"
Nagarry touched his white beard and said in a deep thought that this thing had been in his house for decades. He had never taken it seriously before, otherwise he would not have regarded it as a sink for horse drinking and a horse stake that tied the horse.
"Okay, Jin, I don't know much about this, why don't you give me a price!"
Gary kicked the ball back to Jin Muchen. Jin Muchen looked at the pen holder. After so many years, the carvings outside had almost worn out. I could only vaguely see the statue of Shishan Cuizhu above.
Fortunately, this is a red sandalwood pen holder. Because the material is very good, it has been used as a sink for so many years, and there are no cracks or other conditions. However, the mouth of the pen holder has been hit by the horse's teeth because of drinking horses. Judging from the appearance, the entire pen holder, not to mention patina, is difficult to say even the complete shape of the instrument, so the price must be greatly reduced.
"Well, if this holder is of complete quality and well preserved, I might give you 30,000 dollars. But now? Even if I buy it back, I will find someone to repair it. It will take a lot of money and a lot of time... So, Gary, I can only give you 3,000 dollars."
When Jin Muchen reported this price, he felt a little worried. After all, the material of this rosewood alone is so large that it is more than so much.
But unexpectedly, Gary. over there actually slapped her face: "Trade!"
A wooden stake that had been stored for decades, and was so worn, could be sold for three thousand dollars. How could he disagree?
Both sides were very satisfied with the transaction, not to mention that Jin Muchen directly gave three thousand cash, which made the Lewis and his wife even more happy. After Mrs. Lawrence returned to the room, she specially prepared a sumptuous dinner for them.
In such a pleasant atmosphere, everyone had a pleasant night while eating and chatting. The next day, the weather was clear, and Jin Muchen and Candice chose to leave the farm.
The Lewis and his wife also filled Jin Muchen's 150 with oil. This shows how satisfied the two old men were with the transaction yesterday. As for Jin Muchen, not to mention their satisfaction with the transaction. If Candice was not by his side, he would have wanted to throw the red sandalwood pen holder into the space to repair it last night.
"It seems that Bo Fang is really right. You are really lucky enough. Before the antique exhibition started, you have already started a good start. That pen holder should be a very good thing, right?"
Looking at Jin Muchen in a happy mood, Candice couldn't help but quip in the co-pilot.
Jin Muchen did not hide it and nodded: "It's good, but you have also seen the situation of that pen holder. If I want to repair it after I go back, it will take a lot of energy and time."
Candice didn't ask any more. Jin Muchen continued to drive forward. After a night of emergency repairs, the road ahead had been reopened. Soon before nine o'clock in the morning, the two arrived at the exhibition area of the Brimfield Antiques Exhibition in the eastern suburbs of the city.
When they arrived at the place, before they got off the bus, both of them were already shocked by the momentum of the antique exhibition. No wonder they dared to claim to be the largest flea market in New England. Just looking at the scale, they didn't lie.
After finding a place to park the car, the two walked into the exhibition area. Before entering the exhibition area, they also looked at the display sign outside, which introduced some of the situations in the flea market.
This market has more than 5,000 stalls of collectibles dealers, covering an area as big as a farm, and the collections sold in it are all-encompassing, from a variety of antique furniture and art works to colorful old clothes.
Here you can all get the leather jackets of the motorcycle party from the 1970s, and you can also get the chest of drawers of Louis XV. As long as you can think of it, as long as your pocket is deep enough, there are everything here.
A market of this size is hard to match even the rose bowl market that Jin Muchen has been to before!
Soon he wandered around with Candice, holding a few snacks in his hand, walking and strolling, and he was very happy.
This market covers a large area and has many merchants coming to participate in the exhibition. Many of the things they bring are good things. Although Jin Muchen and Candice seem to be a quick look along the way, his eyes never left those stalls, just to find some good things from those stalls.
The golden eye, which is gifted with superpowers, is now fully powered, always paying attention to those treasures that will flash their jewels.
I also liked a few items along the way, but after walking over and checking them carefully, Jin Muchen couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
It is true that those things are good things, but the stall owners are also people who know the goods, so the price of those treasures is also not low. Even if he wants to buy them, he has to consider whether the price is appropriate.
But after weighing the pros and cons in his heart, he quickly gave up the idea of buying it.
With the excitement of discovering the baby and the disappointment of being blocked by the high price, the two of them visited half of the market until noon, and Jin Muchen couldn't buy anything good.
However, just as the two were planning to find a place to have lunch, Jin Muchen's eyes suddenly stopped at a stall.
This stall specializes in selling porcelain, and their porcelains are of different styles, including Chinese style porcelain and Western style porcelain. There are many fakes, and there are also many fine products.
But what really attracted Jin Muchen's attention was that he placed the same treasure in a wooden basin at the front of the stall. Jin Muchen could see the dazzling golden light emitted by it from a distance, so he couldn't help but take Candice over.
The owner was a middle-aged white man in his forties or fifties. When he saw Jin Muchen coming up, he enthusiastically introduced all the treasures on his stall to Jin Muchen one by one.
There are indeed many good things on his stall, and there are even a few authentic blue and white vases from the Qing Dynasty, but the asking price is not low. The same few European court-style porcelains also have the asking price.
Jin Muchen just stood aside and listened to the stall owner's eloquence. It was not until he finished speaking that Jin Muchen pointed to the things in the wooden basin in front of the stall and asked the stall owner: "Boss, how do you sell this thing?"
The wooden basin was filled with cups, bowls and plates, which seemed to be flawed porcelain, which was similar to the broken porcelain sold by Pan Jiayuan. When the boss saw that Jin Muchen was not very interested in his high-priced products, he stared at the broken porcelain and looked at it hard, and couldn't help but feel very disappointed.
"Those are all improperly maintained porcelain. If you like it, just choose whatever you want, as there are price tags on it."
After saying that, he ignored Jin Muchen. Jin Muchen was happy, then squatted down and started picking it up in the basin.
The porcelain in this basin is mostly water cups for drinking water, but it seems that most of them are ancient European porcelain.
However, these porcelains are either seriously worn in the painting, or have collapsed or cracks on the mouth of the cup. Although most of them can be regarded as ancient porcelain, they are not very expensive because of their unknown origin.
Jin Muchen looked at the price on the cup, and the price was only fifty yuan, and the cheapest was even three or five yuan. The price made his heart pound.
Seeing that the boss hadn't paid attention to him, he quietly reached out to pick out a porcelain cup from the pile of cups, which was the one that he had dazzled before.
But after waiting for the porcelain cup to be obtained, he couldn't help but be stunned. How could this porcelain cup be so heavy?
After a careful look, okay, this is not a porcelain cup, it is clearly a copper cup!
From the base to the handle, the cup is made of brass, but a painted porcelain jacket is wrapped around the outside of the cup...
I don’t know what age this cup was, and I don’t know how to knock the mouth of the brass cup. There are several small pits. The painted porcelain jacket on the outside of the cup is covered with cracks, and the paintings on the white porcelain have been painted, but you can still see clearly that the painting should be a bust of a person.
The style of this cup is so weird. What era is this? Who would use brass to make water cups?
What's more, if you're full, add a layer of white porcelain to the outside of the cup. How can you spend this effort, why don't you just make a porcelain cup?
If a person who knows porcelain sees such a cup, the first thing he says is that the person who makes this cup must be a weird thing!
You should know that in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, porcelain was much more valuable than brass. At that time, European nobles and royal families were proud of using porcelain.
This cup is obviously European-style, because Chinese people don’t make such copper cups. If it is really the authentic product of that era, you inlaid a layer of porcelain walls on the outside of the copper cup but don’t make a complete porcelain cup, do you think the person who designed and made this cup was kicked by a donkey?
Chapter completed!