Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 472
Pierce told Liang En that his previous discovery and excavation of Mycenae had become a hot topic at the exhibition. After all, this was an antique trade exhibition, so everyone was basically a person in this field.

As a result, Pierce's store naturally attracted more attention, because everyone wanted to see what happened to the store in which an explorer like Liang En had a stake.

Fortunately, the things Pierce brought this time can also withstand such a scene. For example, although antique furniture or tableware made of precious metals are not top-notch, they are also high-quality goods with a very wide audience.

In addition to antiques, whether it is a variety of Indian handicrafts sold as handicrafts or the ancient Egyptian-style jewelry made by the group of Egyptian Copts, there is a certain originality.

So this time Pierce's berth was very popular throughout the exhibition, especially the Indian handicrafts and ancient Egyptian style jewelry, which are the future flagship products, have opened up the market.

These handicrafts are definitely impossible to ship from Earl's luxury channels due to grade issues, so they have been sold a little bit through emerald thrift shops before.

However, in this way, their shipments are often unsatisfactory, so that the number of various handicrafts that can be shipped through this new channel is always not particularly large compared to the overall production volume.

After all, emerald thrift stores have a long history, but they are not very prestigious, so even if they try their best to promote these things, the overall situation looks a bit bad.

Fortunately, Liang En's new archaeological discoveries led to the topic of the entire exhibition, making these modern handicrafts famous and sold at a good price.

Yes, although this fair is called an antique fair, there are quite a lot of various antique handicrafts, most of which are sold by the owners of the antique handicrafts, but there are also some guys who use this name to cheat money .

After all, antiques are a non-renewable resource, so except for a very few merchants specializing in antiques, most merchants will also sell various imitations to maintain income.

It is a pity that for most people, the profit of this kind of business is not huge, and it can only maintain their daily life. It is unlikely that they want to make a fortune.

The reason why Liang En and the others added this business to themselves is also very simple, that is to find new sources of income for the two ancient nations and help them have a better life.

Of course, Liang En and the others are not purely doing charity. For example, Pierce also realized that if he wanted to expand, he would not be able to simply be an antique dealer, and he had to get involved in this kind of handicraft market.

Fortunately, compared to other people, Liang En and the others have advantages in the production of handicrafts that others do not have, so if the publicity can keep up now, the business in the future will definitely not be too bad.

From the next morning, Liang En helped to stand in the emerald thrift shop as a publicist for a whole morning, and took photos with more than 50 tourists and sent autographed photos.

This can be regarded as part of the publicity. In fact, it did boost the popularity of the booth, and it also made Liang En consume more energy to get out of here and start his trip to the exhibition.

I have to say that being at his own booth just now wasn't all good. For example, at least half of the stall owners in the fair now knew Liang En, which made his plan to pick up the loopholes directly aborted.

Fortunately, he didn't come here today just to pick up leaks, so after realizing that this aspect was useless, he immediately turned his energy to the sundries that opened the door to see if there was anything he needed.

Since lamps were such a common necessity in the old days, it's only natural that the place has a wide variety of lamps for sale, from the oldest Roman Hellenistic pottery oil lamps to works of art that were only produced last week.

For the first half hour, Liang En searched for those ancient lamps, such as the oil lamps made of terracotta in ancient Greece or the cast iron oil lamps from Japan 300 years ago. He tried them all.

It's a pity that these old lamps did not resonate with the card in Liang En's hand, which shows that this is not what he needs.

Finally he stopped in front of a stall selling various World War II items, and then focused his attention on an oil lamp made of tin.

This is a very common black iron oil lamp, with a lot of rust and dust on it, it looks like any oil lamp in that era, and there is nothing special about it.

"This is an oil lamp I bought from several Albanians. They said they got it from Bosnia and Herzegovina before, but they couldn't tell what it was."

Seeing Liang En focus on the oil lamp, the middle-aged man with a beard stumbled to introduce him in a kind of English with flicking and retroflexing sounds.

"Where did you get this thing?" Liang En picked up a Yugoslav partisan medal placed beside him, looked at it, and suddenly said in Russian. "Of course, if it involves your business, you don't have to say it."

"There's nothing wrong with that." After hearing the familiar Russian, the smile on the man's face suddenly became a lot more sincere, and he said to Liang En.

"Since you are also a partner of the Emerald Store and have been a treasure hunter of the Rundan Gang for a while, you should know that the channels for us to receive goods are unstable."

"Like these things were sold to us by a group of Albanians, which is actually a very common thing, after all, you also know the group of Albanians-so after making sure these things are not registered lost items, I took them. these things."

"But according to my inference, this is likely to come from a small museum that is not going to operate or the family of an old soldier. After all, you know that the former Yugoslavia is very poor now, so it is not uncommon for locals to sell this thing."

"Understood, if I want to buy this lamp, plus two medals and a silver cigarette case, how much will it cost?" After the other party finished speaking, Liang En pointed to the four things placed in the corner and said.

"If it were you, I think 600 euros would be enough." The Russian businessman said after thinking for a while. "But I want you to give me cash."

"Of course, of course there is no problem." Liang En knew that this price should be regarded as a relatively fair price, so he nodded and took out the cash from his pocket, counted out 600 euros and handed it to the other party, and then took the four items in his bag .

Liang En returned to his bunk with these things, and then checked this lamp that looked no different from other oil lamps in the closed room behind it as a warehouse.

Soon, he discovered that the side of the lamp seemed to have been engraved with words before.After carefully cleaning off the black paint on the surface of the oil lamp where the characters were engraved with a knife, he found a small metal plate underneath.

And the metal plate bears the following text: Belgrade Mortgage Bank Sarajevo Branch, Vladimir Peric, 1944.

Obviously, these words should have been left by the owner of the oil lamp in order to prevent others from accidentally taking away his oil lamp. Unfortunately, Liang En is not familiar with the name, so he does not know the background of the oil lamp.

(End of this chapter)