Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 460 Harvest
Although it is said that the most common job that ordinary people do when they come to the bank is to deposit and withdraw money, and sometimes they may make loans or repay loans, but in fact the business of banks is far more than that.

For example, banks also undertake the business of renting out safes or even warehouses to store various financial items. Of course, this business is also charged.

Now this underground vault is used by Mr. Kimura to store all kinds of things. According to the bank staff who accompanied them, this warehouse should be the smallest among the warehouses.

There are eight silver-white shock-absorbing boxes of different sizes in the warehouse.Apparently, Mr. Kimura considered how the person who received the items in the warehouse would take the items in the warehouse away.

I have to say that this point also reflects the Japanese habit of not causing trouble to others, and this habit sometimes feels more comfortable to others.

So Liang En and the others quickly used the bank's trolley to bring these boxes to the ground, and then drove back to Dublin by renting a car and returning the car after completing the formalities at the bank.

The reason for driving is also very simple, because they may encounter some unexpected situations if they want to take a plane with this pile of things, so they simply chose to return to Dublin by driving and taking a ferry.

Later that day, they drove a van to London. Because the house they rented in London had been sold out, Liang En and the others had to find a temporary hotel to live in.

In consideration of anti-theft issues, they also made a vigil schedule at night, and took turns to get out of the car and stay in the car to guard the boxes.

Finally, in the afternoon of the next day, they returned to Dublin smoothly, and then the three of them came to Liang En's ranch together, and then opened the boxes in the underground storage room to check the contents inside.

Although the boxes looked the same, they found Arabic numerals written on the corners of the boxes during inspection, so they decided to open the boxes according to the numbers from largest to smallest.

The first few boxes contained some European-made porcelain or various gold and silverware, similar to Essen porcelain, silver candlesticks, silver dinner plates or dinner forks, and some sterling silver or Silver plated jewelry.

Although the prices of these things are not cheap, they are not too expensive either. The only advantage is that it will be relatively simple to sell, and you don't need to spend too much time looking for customers.

It is a pity that there are not many precious metal items in this box in pairs, and those single pieces of silverware cannot be sold at a high price.

When they opened the fifth box, the contents inside finally changed. The boxes were no longer those common things, but some gold jewelry inlaid with semi-precious stones and precious stones.

Most of this jewelry is earrings, rings or necklaces used by women. From the style point of view, it belongs to mass-produced jewelry from the Victorian period to the 20s, but there are also some tie clips or key chains for men.

Different from those things that are simply packaged with shockproof pads, these jewelry are equipped with boxes, and some even have original jewelry boxes that can be seen at a glance, which obviously increases the value of these jewelry.

Although these jewelry are basically mass-produced jewelry for the emerging middle class since the Victorian era, if the original jewelry box can be preserved to this day, the value is not low.

The sixth and seventh boxes contain some works of art and miscellaneous antiques, including several oil paintings by second-tier European painters, an inkwell made of alabaster, and a gold-covered ebony figure with an obvious African style Waiting to add up to more than 30 messy things.

Liang En didn't know most of the things here, and it might take some time to check the information to confirm.But a pencil sketch of Picasso still caught his attention.

This sketch looks only the size of a palm, and the content on it is a bit rough, but from the content on the screen, the strength of the brush and the signature on the back, it can be judged that it is indeed from Picasso.

"Picasso's painting? I heard that this thing is very valuable." Fan Meng and Joan of Arc were immediately attracted to Picasso's painting.

Because Picasso is so famous, even people like Fan Meng and Joan of Arc who don't know much about art know the painter's name and roughly understand the value of the painter's works.

"Not all Picasso's paintings are valuable." Liang En smiled and shook his head and said, "It depends on the size of the painting and the content on it."

"For example, the content of this sketch is obviously too simple, and the size of the paper is too small. At the same time, it is obvious that the other party didn't pay much attention when drawing, so the price of something like this is naturally not very high. .”

And the fact is the same, Liang En and the others quickly found something similar to this one, only to find that it was only sold for more than 7000 euros and less than 8000 euros.

This price is naturally not low for a draft drawing, but if you consider that this thing is made by Picasso, it always feels that the price is a little low.

"Not all famous calligraphy and paintings are valuable. Things like this kind of random paintings by Picasso are obviously of little value. The price that can be sold at this price is already based on Picasso's name."

Apart from this Picasso painting, there is nothing here that can make people's eyes shine, so after putting these things away in different categories, the three of them opened the last box.

The last box contained only two things, a large flat wooden box and a long wooden box, and before the box was opened, Liang En could smell a faint smell of rust.

"Sure enough, it's a Japanese sword." With the long shape of the wooden box, Liang En guessed what was inside the box at once, and after opening the long box, it was exactly as he had guessed before.

There was a Japanese knife in a white sheath in the box. After pulling out part of it, Liang En found that the knife looked a bit gray due to lack of maintenance for a long time.

Unlike stainless steel, the carbon steel used to make Japanese sword blades is actually an alloy that is very easy to be oxidized, even if it is stored well and not maintained for a short period of time, it is easy to rust.

So now, although it can be seen that Mr. Kimura at that time really wanted to preserve the knife as much as possible, he still couldn't avoid the oxidation of the knife body. Fortunately, it is enough to find a grinder to grind it for this level of oxidation.

However, as the knife was gradually drawn out, Liang En found that the knife seemed to have been through many vicissitudes, and some scratches and even battle marks could be clearly seen on the knife.

This is not normal for the samurai, although they will have several swords on hand as replacements, but considering the fact that ancient samurai swords are not cheap, qualified samurai will take good care of their weapons.

This has nothing to do with the so-called bushido spirit fabricated by those war criminals, mainly because traditional Japanese samurai need to use these knives as weapons to fight, and if they lack maintenance, they are prone to problems on the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)