50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 449 The President of the Appraisers Association Summons

When news of the destruction of Quintero Estate spread, the first to react were the minor leaders of the Quintero family, who immediately gathered their men and rushed to the estate.

The other two members of the D Owl family were the next to realize what was happening.

The three major D. Owl families are closely connected in Daguadalajala, and they used to have disagreements over the distribution of shares, leading to constant open and covert struggles.

However, over the years they have all been targeted by the DEA's bounty and attacks, and have been forced to form alliances and band together for mutual support, and their relationships have become very close.

After the news from the Quintero family reached them, the Gaardo and Carrillo families immediately sent people to the Quintero estate to investigate the situation.

Even the fire department arrived at the estate ahead of time to help put out the fire. Only the police department in Daguadarajara received the news the latest, arriving only after the fire at the estate had already been extinguished.

Three days later, after forensic experts confirmed that the dozens of bodies found at the scene did indeed include four male members of the Quintero family.

Led by the other two D Owl families, the wolves quickly divided up the Quintero family's businesses across Mexico, and also took control of the Silver Triangle's supply share.

What no one knew was that dozens of collateral relatives of the Quintero family had also disappeared within a week.

Sun Zhiwei's guess was right. Sure enough, someone helped him eliminate the threat completely, so there would be no one to seek revenge against him in the future.

That day, after Sun Zhiwei drove the Apache away from the manor, he flew the plane into the nearby mountains and got off.

He then stored the helicopter in his spatial storage, switched to the car he had driven earlier, and left Daguadarajara.

On May 9th, Sun Zhiwei returned to his home in Washington, D.C., to continue his work as an appraiser.

In the middle of the month, he received a phone call from the Washington headquarters of the M Country Appraisers Association.

He was notified by phone to go to the association's office within a week to find the president, Siegfried Carlyle.

In recent years, apart from purchasing blank authentication certificates from the association, he has had virtually no interaction with them.

Especially since the beginning of this year, he has been taking on more and more outside work, and he has even delegated the task of purchasing blank authentication certificates to Norman Simmons, another authenticator in the store.

The phone call didn't explain why they wanted to contact him, and it was the association president who was contacting him, which was very strange.

But since he had nothing better to do anyway, and the association's office wasn't far away, he decided to go and take a look tomorrow morning.

The next morning, he ate breakfast at home and then walked to the M Country Appraisers Association building on 19th Street.

At the reception desk, he gave his name, and the blonde receptionist found his name on the president's appointment list.

He was quickly led to the president's office on the third floor.

The M Country Appraisers Association is actually a non-governmental organization, and most of the time it mainly focuses on personnel training and professional qualification examinations.

Most of its funding actually comes from donations from its members.

To become a full member of the association, one not only needs to obtain the "International Registered Art Appraiser" qualification certificate, but also needs to have three years of professional experience before being eligible to join.

The president called him here today because he wanted to introduce him to the association and make him a full member.

Sun Zhiwei has paid little attention to information related to authentication in the past year or so, and he himself is unaware of how famous he has become in the community. The entire collector circle in Washington is only so big, and once an excellent authenticator becomes famous, he will quickly be known to most local collectors through word of mouth.

That's how Sun Zhiwei became famous. In the past three years, he has issued nearly 1 appraisal certificates, which is an impossible task for a non-member.

Because most non-members don't have many connections or enough fame to attract collectors to have their items appraised.

Fernando Harris, the association's president, has heard Sun Zhiwei's name from friends more than once in the past two years.

Moreover, every time his name appears, it is accompanied by the identification of a difficult item.

What Sun Zhiwei didn't know was that during his several trips back to Washington to process and appraise items in bulk, there were always some strange and unusual antiques mixed in.

He never cared about the difficulty of item identification, because with spatial scanning, he could identify any item correctly.

But that's precisely what makes this situation so terrifying. From President Fernando's perspective, this is actually a kind of talent.

The correct identification result of many things is often very different from the appearance of the item, which makes it impossible for an appraiser who has never seen it before to even make the connection.

A talented appraiser, upon seeing an unfamiliar item, can always connect it to its correct purpose, thereby finding clues and quickly determining the appraisal result.

Besides unfamiliar items, there are also many counterfeit goods in the antique market, making it difficult to distinguish them.

Fernando felt that Sun Zhiwei was a naturally gifted player, a true gift from God.

In the appraiser industry, what is a non-member? They are similar to interns.

He is like a graduate in the medical field; many of them can't even find a job as a doctor right after graduation.

Most people can only serve as assistants to licensed doctors, doing mundane tasks such as writing medical records and printing prescriptions.

The same applies to the appraisal industry. People who have just obtained the "International Registered Art Appraiser" qualification certificate are unlikely to find a formal appraisal job.

Large appraisal institutions all want experienced professionals, and starting their own business doesn't bring in enough customers. Ultimately, they still have to go back to the old path of accumulating experience by working for large companies.

It's extremely rare to find someone like Sun Zhiwei who has successfully opened his own shop.

Therefore, as soon as Sun Zhiwei met the requirement of three years of professional experience, Fernando thought of introducing him into the association as a formal member, with the president himself acting as the recommender.

This way, he can build a good relationship with Sun Zhiwei, and in the future, when there are difficult items to appraise, he can rely on Sun Zhiwei's help. This can also be considered a way to expand his network.

Moreover, becoming a full member of the Appraisers Association would also bring many benefits to Sun Zhiwei.

For example, he can later receive reward appraisal tasks nationwide through the Appraisers Association platform. Such reward appraisals are something that people in the industry often encounter.

For example, a collector from another region has an item that needs to be verified for authenticity or provenance, but the local appraisers are unable to help.

At this point, collectors can use the Appraisers Association platform to send bounty requests to appraiser members throughout the M country.

(End of this chapter)