Chapter 80
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Because of the excessive excitement that day, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning when I woke up the next day, Candace had been waiting a little impatiently. ◎
Jin Muchen hurried out with her for a brunch, then hurried out of the hotel and headed straight to the Pasque Market.
This Pasque Market is similar to the antique market in New York. It usually opens on weekends, and usually starts in November every year and ends in March next year.
After this period, the entire market will enter a period of rest.
Yesterday, I accidentally collected a set of baby snuff bottles, which greatly increased Jin Muchen's interest in this market. I plan to go and have a good look today to see if I can meet any baby.
And after about a walk yesterday, Jin Muchen already had a rough understanding of the market, so when they came today, they did not waste time, but went straight to the greenhouse in Victory Plaza.
According to their understanding, this greenhouse is set up almost every holiday, and almost all are silent auctions similar to yesterday.
Because of yesterday's experience, and by comparing the antiques in the greenhouse and the vendors outside the greenhouse and the antiques in the shop, Jin Muchen thought it was the most cost-effective to buy things in the greenhouse.
Although there are many good things in the shops on both sides of Pasker Street, because those antique shops are relatively formal, most of them clearly priced. If you want to buy something good in those shops, it will be more expensive and not very cost-effective.
Most of the stall owners who set up stalls in greenhouses are not capable of opening shops, but their own things are better than those of the vendors who set up stalls outside, so they are asked to take regular channels to deliver them to auction. They are unwilling to take advantage of the auction company and charge too high handling fees, so they choose to set up stalls in this greenhouse. Although they also have to pay a certain fee, they are always much lower than the auction company's charges.
When they arrived in the greenhouse, it was already crowded with people. The situation was similar to yesterday. Many collectors who were confident in their collection set up stalls here early, and then wrote down the price on the small blackboard next to them, waiting for customers to come.
Old Phil, who sold the snuff bottle yesterday, is still here this time, but this time he bought something else, some gadgets like cloisonné and porcelain brought from China, and this time there were not as many customers in front of his stall as yesterday.
When Old Phil saw Jin Muchen, he greeted him with a smile. After all, Jin Muchen was a generous customer, and Jin Muchen also nodded at him with a smile.
Jin Muchen was not very interested in the things on Phil's stall today. He glanced at it and found that apart from a few of them, most of them could only be considered modern handicrafts.
So he started to turn around in the greenhouse, and soon the lot from a stall attracted his interest.
The stall owner is a big fat man with curly hair and a shaved beard. At first glance, this guy is a typical American otaku. He is full of sloppy spirit and doesn't hesitate to customers while sitting there.
However, the items on his stall were very interesting. They were dozens of various Coca-Cola bottles and jars of different shapes, all of which were not opened. Jin Muchen picked them up for a few years, and they all looked like they had a history of decades. The Coke in the bottle had expired long ago.
"Hey, man, be careful, this is the most expensive one. This is the coke bottle to commemorate the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in England."
The fat man in curly hair looked at Jin Muchen holding the coke bottle as if he was casual, and quickly shouted at Jin Muchen with a nervous look on his face.
Jin Muchen smiled and carefully put the Coke bottle back.
During this period, he has become an industry in the antique market in the United States. He has seen many strange collections and various collection enthusiasts.
Because of the United States' status as the world's number one immigrant country, the tastes of collectors here can be said to be strange and the same is true for the collection.
Some people like to collect various old magazines, some like to collect various baseball star cards, and some like to collect various bottle caps, even license plates, and shoes.
Anyway, those who don’t know how to be good will think that their taste is too heavy and too strange, just like those at home and abroad who don’t know why some people like to collect disgusting things like cricket jars.
Although Jin Muchen could not see any jewels in front of this guy, he could also see that these collections were interesting.
Some Coke cans have strange shapes, and some are in various commemorative versions. For example, he actually saw Elvis go to the century-long edition, even a commemorative version of the Chinese twelve zodiac signs, and even a gold can for the 2008 Beijing Olympics commemorative version.
Anyway, it looks very precious, and the quotes of these coke cans are not cheap either. For example, the coke bottle that just commemorated the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in England was actually priced at 5,000 US dollars. The estimation company gave the appraisal company an estimate of as high as 180,000 US dollars, and the minimum price that the roll-headed fat stall owner can accept is 240,000 US dollars.
Seeing this price, Jin Muchen could only stab the teeth. You should know that the set of snuff bottles he collected yesterday was only 100,000 yuan. This coke can is actually more valuable than that set of snuff bottles.
Of course, this is mainly related to the fact that Coca-Cola is native to the United States. After all, once ethnic complexes are involved, many collections will double their value.
And don’t look at the price of this coke can, but there are quite a few people who are interested in it. After so much time, many people have gathered around this stall.
"I don't understand anything else, but this coke can is a collection, but it started in the United States and flourished in the United States. This thing has a low status in the collection industry of the United States and has a high acceptance. My brother had collected one before, but he didn't have all of it. Unfortunately, it's all detained by the bank now."
Candice doesn't know much about other antiques, but he still knows some tricks about the collections of Coke cans that emerged in the United States.
After hearing what she said, Jin Muchen became interested in this set of coke cans. His future plan was to open an antique shop in Manhattan, but he did not plan to open a Chinese-style one. His plan was to cover all-encompassing antiques that cover all styles of Europe, Asia and America.
In his opinion, this set of coke cans is a good choice. If you buy them and take them back and put them in the store, you will definitely not have to worry about selling them.
So after the auction began, he also chose to participate in the bidding. Others raised the bids for 1,200 yuan, while he adopted the same bidding method as yesterday, and directly raised the bids for 5,000 yuan. This scared away many bidders, and the price was directly raised to 250,000 US dollars by him.
The fat man with curly hair certainly welcomed a rich man like Jin Muchen, and his eyes looked at him became much more friendly. A quote of 250,000 yuan really scared away many bidders. After about fifty seconds, no one dared to come up to bid.
The fat man in curly hair looked at his watch, waiting for the last ten seconds to pass, and then announced that the auction was successful, but at this moment, a black shadow suddenly squeezed into the blackboard and added another five thousand to Jin Muchen's quotation.
The people around him gasped for a while. Jin Muchen turned his head and looked at it. He couldn't help but feel sank. He turned out to be the four-eyed little white-faced person who bid for his snuff bottle yesterday.
After filling in the price, this guy stood in front of the blackboard for bidding, holding his arms and sneering at Jin Muchen. At this time, his Japanese employers were standing in the crowd, whispering in Japanese, pointing at the coke cans on the table and talking.
Jin Muchen understood this situation as soon as he saw this. It seemed that this guy was bidding for his Japanese bosses this time.
Seeing that guy's jaw was almost killing the heavens, he was immediately angry. Damn, a dog traitor, do you think you are still very excited to be a dog?
He stepped forward and added another 5,000 to the quotation of the four-eyed little white-faced person, and directly raised the price to 260,000.
The little white-eyed face looked at him with a sneer, then turned his head to look at the Japanese behind him. One of them was a tough guy with a tough look and a little like Ken Takakura, and nodded at him.
The guy snorted softly in his nose, and then added another five thousand to Jin Muchen's offer. It seemed that he was not only here to ruin the situation, but to fight with Jin Muchen to the end!
Jin Muchen, who originally didn't like Japanese people, and even more liked traitors, felt that she was so angry that her temples were thundering. Without thinking too much, she directly raised the price to 270,000 yuan.
These two people were in a row, and there were more and more people watching the fun around them. Such scenes were rare here, and the curly fat man on the stall owner's face was already full of joy.
The four-eyed little white face was approved by the Japanese master, but he refused to give in. Jin Muchen raised the price, and he added 5,000 to Jin Muchen's offer, and the price was raised to 300,000.
"Enough, Mu Chen, if you continue to increase the price, it will be a bit unprofitable. Although this set of coke cans is good, if you search it slowly online, you can collect them all, but it may take more time. If you continue to get involved with him like this, it will be unprofitable."
Just as Jin Muchen wanted to go forward and increase the price again, Candice grabbed him and persuaded him.
Jin Muchen felt that his stomach was almost blown by the four-eyed little white face opposite who only looked at people with his nostrils, but in the end he returned to reason.
Although this set of coke cans has a complete variety, good quality and rare collection, it is indeed a bit unworthy of the loss if you compete with this guy to increase the price. Forget it, this time I will make you proud for a while.
Jin Muchen chose to withdraw from the bidding, but just as he wanted to turn around and leave, the four-eyed little white-faced whispered: "Hmph! Dear Northern Man, I thought you were so rich, but that's just that? Playing and collecting is not suitable for you, so it's better to go back to farm!"
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