Start with an antique shop and become rich overnight

Chapter 154 A Day of Picking Up Bargains

The other party expressed his understanding and didn't say anything else. He just added Shen You's WeChat and said that being in a foreign country was also fate.

After the little episode just now, Shen You and Wen Zhi continued to pick and choose in the flea market.

It is not easy to find a bargain. Anything sold by poor white people is fake, and there are as many as you want in antique streets in China.

But if you are lucky enough, you may come across the real thing.

This is a silver hairpin with kingfisher feathers from the Qing Dynasty. The kingfisher feathers have almost all fallen off and the silver has been badly oxidized. It looks like scrap copper and iron, but it is a real thing.

Wen Zhi acted as Shen You's translator for bargaining. Before she even started bargaining, the seller asked for 20 pounds.

It is equivalent to less than 200 yuan.

What else is there to cut?
Bought!

Shen You also found two such items, each of which cost a few hundred yuan.

It is worth two to three thousand yuan in the domestic antique market.

The most expensive one is an antique mother-of-pearl fan, which cost more than 10,000 yuan and was found in the store.

The colorful white of the shells and the exquisite carvings on them are indeed worth the price, even though they were only exported by the Thirteen Factories in the late Qing Dynasty.

Shen You walked around here for most of the day, and Wen Zhi followed her without complaint, holding her spoils.

Shen You also suggested that he find a place to rest while she went shopping by herself, but he refused.

In the past, he had only heard that girls like to go shopping in malls and can walk around for hours. He didn't expect that when shopping in a mall on the cruise ship, Shen You said that she couldn't walk anymore in less than half an hour, so she just found a store to buy some wearable outdoor equipment.

When I got here, I became more and more excited as I shopped among the piles of fake goods.

Just as he was thinking, Wen Zhi felt his hands being pulled twice. He lowered his eyes and saw Shen You excitedly saying to him,
"Ask the boss if he can take down that dusty bowl in the second row and have a look at it."

Wen Zhi was silent for a moment and asked as she asked.

This is an agate bowl. As we all know, agate is not valuable in modern times, but there are plenty of them on the Internet.

But it was valuable in ancient times. Pure natural agate is as brittle as crystal and is not easy to carve by hand.

The famous Warring States crystal cup is very valuable, as is Qianlong's pink crystal incense burner.

The uniqueness of this bowl lies in the fact that its shape is from the Song Dynasty!
And it doesn’t look like anything new.

It is hard to say what era it is, just in case it is true.
After Wen Zhi asked the price, the white boss gestured twice with his hands.

Five thousand pounds? Or fifty thousand?

If it is not from the Song Dynasty but from modern times, this price is a complete waste.

"He said 1500 pounds." Wen Zhi said.

Shen You's eyes lit up a bit, but she didn't dare to show it, for fear that the other party would see her raising the price. "He said agate is not valuable, so I asked him if he would sell it for 1000 pounds?"

When the boss heard this, he waved his hands and said a few words. Facing Shen You's puzzled look, Wen Zhi translated: "Not a penny less."

Shen You:.
It was about 13,000 RMB, so the risk was not particularly high for her.

High-quality agate without impurities, and carved into this shape, even modern handicrafts would cost two to three thousand yuan.

The boss was very determined and the price could not be negotiated.

Shen You thought for a few seconds, gave the boss an 'ok' gesture, and swiped his card to pay.

After buying it, she hid nearby and watched for a while.

"No, what are we doing?" Wen Zhi looked at himself and Shen You who was peeking in with a daze.

"Ready to go shopping for zero dollars?"

Is it appropriate for the two of them to stay here dressed like this? "What? Let's see if the boss will take out something exactly the same and put it back there."

Fortunately, there wasn't any, and Shen You felt a little relieved.

Agate bowls are different from porcelain and the like. Other things can be judged by their raw materials and craftsmanship, but this method does not work for agate bowls without patterns, so she cannot tell for sure.

Afterwards, Shen You also saw ancient coins here. They were real coins with verdigris and some other substances that were difficult to distinguish.

The seller should be a Chinese, and the person who saw this should be an expert at identifying the goods. Shen You had no intention of buying it.

After looking at it carefully for a while, she realized that this thing came from an unknown source, and it came from a tomb. The indistinguishable substance stuck on it was probably Qin's corpse fluid.

Although there is no taboo in collecting antiques, most people would feel disgusted by this thing. Shen You was glad that she didn't try it out.

Ancient coins collected by collectors will not have this thing.

I don't know when it was dumped out. Most people did this during the war years and in the early years.

Some valuable ancient coins can be sold for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for just one copper coin.

Coins from the Warring States Period were sold for more than two million yuan, and a copper plate from the Xianfeng period with "Baoquan Dang Wubai" printed on the back was sold for more than five million yuan.

Having gained a lot today, Shen You's steps have become lighter. He looks forward to finding someone to identify the agate bowl after returning.

This feeling of waiting to open the blind box is pretty good.

After visiting the jewelry exhibition, Gu Shaoyu returned to his residence and was stunned when he saw what Shen You had displayed.

They brought back so many things in just one day?

"This ball, damn! Is there one in the British Museum? It's called the Ghost Ball, from the Daoguang era, and has 18 layers! You also said that you don't know what it was lost overseas, and there is no record of the craftsman who carved it. Did you go to an auction again, or did you rob the British Museum?"

"There is one there, but the carving patterns and number of layers are different." Shen You raised his head.

"Can I touch it?!" Gu Shaoyu interlaced his hands in front of him, leaned forward, and looked at the ghost ball on the table. "I heard that if you use a hairpin to poke each layer inside, it will rotate."

"Put on gloves before touching it." Shen You took out a pair of new gloves from his pocket like Doraemon.

Gu Shaoyu tilted his head, full of question marks.

"For someone like me, it's normal to carry a few pairs of gloves with you. They're not expensive when you buy them abroad."

expensive?
What did she say when her price jumped to $10?

Gu Shaoyu was afraid of dropping the item, so he almost knelt down beside the coffee table. He didn't dare to leave the tray. He just picked up the magnifying glass to look at it, and after getting Shen You's permission, he used the hairpin she bought today to try to move the layers inside.

"The inner core is so small, yet it has patterns on it. The craftsmanship is so impressive that it makes my scalp tingle when I see it up close. If it were put up for auction, it would probably cost 100 or 200 million yuan, right?"

"Almost." Shen You is repackaging and protecting it so that it will be easier to ship back.

"You really don't want to sell it?" Gu Shaoyu put the ball down carefully.

"Do you think I can sell this thing casually?"

It is not illegal to sell it in a foreign country, but with such a large amount of money coming in, it is easy to be suspected of reselling antiques and then be investigated.

"And when I got this thing, I promised others that I would never sell it to foreigners. I don't like ivory carvings myself."

She has a shop that does cross-dimensional transactions, so there is no shortage of opportunities to make money. Why should she hoard some wealth?

She felt sorry to see the Tang Dynasty murals that were looted by others in the early years and ended up in this state because they were not properly preserved.

They stayed here for a few more days. During this time, Wen Zhi went back to Da Qi. Shen You and Gu Shaoyu spent a day relying on translation software. After that, they went to see more medieval buildings and limited-time exhibitions.

Personal collection of well-known collectors.

A few hundred years ago, these people were wealthy people from aristocratic families with extraordinary strength. They were so arrogant just because of the things they borrowed.

A piece of jade jewelry costs 200 million.