Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 108 Hundred Yuan Note Red Factory

I briefly took a look at the envelope below and found that the stamp on it was a 20-cent red "Founding Ceremony" for the [-]th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

He knew that these stamps were relatively valuable.

Seeing this, he quickly closed the pages of the book. Lao Jia was still opposite, and there were people loading books and papers into the car around him.

Now is certainly not the time to take a closer look at those envelope stamps.

Putting this book with the books he was going to buy, he continued to look for other valuable books.

After a while he found another paper cutout.

This paper-cut is a local folk paper-cut.

I briefly took a look at the "content" inside, including flower paper-cuts, auspicious patterns, zodiac paper-cuts, etc.

I looked at the date of this book and found it was in 1963, which is 50 years ago.

Books with paper-cut patterns like this are also collected by some people.

Taking it to the books he had selected before, Wu Yuansheng glanced at Lao Jia and found that he was reading a print, and there were a lot of old books selected next to him.

Feeling that many of these books were valuable, he began to search for them faster, basically taking them to the side without even looking at them.

Anyway, if you weigh it, it only costs two or three yuan per catty. Even if a bag weighs 100 catties, it's not much money.

Seeing him like this, Lao Jia had no choice but to go directly to him.

In less than a minute, the two of them finished dividing the bag of books. Wu Yuansheng picked up even the books that he had not planned to discard before.

After all, the pages of those books are likely to contain small items such as valuable bookmarks or bills.

After picking it up, he took a snakeskin bag next to it and packed all the selected books.

People come here every day to choose used books. The proprietress of this waste recycling station is also very attentive. She has snakeskin bags and convenience bags ready for those who choose used books.

Again, everyone makes their own money!

"You started grabbing books without even choosing. Did you find something good?"

After the book was divided between the two, Lao Jia asked him in a low voice.

It was probably his behavior just now that made Lao Jia see the problem.

"There's nothing particularly good about it. I just feel that these books are from an early age and most of them have collectible value."

He would certainly not tell him about the discovery of early stamps and envelopes.

Similarly, if Lao Jia discovered a good paper collection, he would definitely not tell him now.

"Yes, you can basically get all the books in this bag. You are lucky and you will encounter good books as soon as you come here. I have been here all afternoon, and the books I selected before are all recent and not of much value!"

"Then I've stolen your business!"

Although Lao Jia said this, he didn't really believe it.

"It's okay. This is your own luck. You can't let someone else choose the book. I won't let him choose."

As the two of them were chatting, someone came over to dump the book again, but this time it was from a much more recent era.

He took a look and found that they were basically from the 90s and later, mostly from the early 80s, with a small number from the [-]s.

Quickly scanning through the pile of old books, he first found a few full-page (many uncropped) old pictures.

The cartoons are from the 90s and include Calabash, Transformers, and Water Margin characters.

Although such nostalgic pictures are recent, some people still collect them.

Compared with other paper collections, it is not very valuable, but if he sees it and weighs it by the catty, he will definitely pick it up.

He himself had played with such cartoons when he was a child.

After putting the pictures away, he looked for other valuable old books.

<divclass="contentadv">He took the selected books this time and put them in a large convenience bag, and they were not mixed with the previous ones.

After Lao Jia finished selecting the pile of books, he went to weigh them. Even if there were better and more valuable books next, he would not choose them. He had to go home when the time came, and he would not be able to make enough money.

Wu Yuansheng finished selecting the pile of books. After another person came and dumped the books, he selected some and it was dark.

The last book someone else dumped was not too early, probably after the 90s.

Old books like those from the 60s and [-]s are more than half a century old. After all, there are only a few that have been preserved and sold now.

After weighing and paying for the books, he put the books on the tricycle and rode away.

When he left, those who loaded the old books into the truck were still working overtime at night to load the truck.

I guess if I go to the book selection place tomorrow morning, there will definitely be no books there.

After returning to the rental house in the family courtyard, he put away his books before going to have dinner.

By the time he returned again, it was almost nine o'clock again.

He poured out the bag of old books from the 50s and began to look for the five-year plan book with stamps in the envelope.

It took him about two or three minutes to find the book and take the envelope out of it.

Without looking at the stamps on them first, he counted the number of envelopes. There were eight in total.

After counting the number, he placed the envelopes side by side and began to look at the stamps on them and the style of the envelopes.

Except for the simple patterns on two sides of these envelopes, the rest are plain.

One of the patterned pages has a simple rectangular border with a five-pointed star at each corner, and the other is printed with duck reeds.

The paper of the envelopes was very rough, not the fine and delicate paper that would become later. This was related to the papermaking process at that time.

I looked at the postmark dates and found that they were basically from 1955 to 1961.

He had already seen the stamps on the previous two envelopes. The 8-cent Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace stamps were not valuable, while the "Founding Ceremony" stamp was more valuable.

He looked at the stamps on the other envelopes.

Two more stamps of "ancient scientists" (Zhang Heng and Zu Chongzhi) were found.

The others are ordinary stamps of the Summer Palace, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Temple of Heaven, sports games, workers, peasants and soldiers, etc.

He didn't take the stamps off the envelopes and planned to auction them off with the envelopes.

After reading the stamped envelope, he took out the letter paper inside and looked at it.

Compared with the current letter paper, the letter paper is about the same size, but the paper is much rougher and the design looks more retro.

It's okay, he briefly read what was written in the letter.

It is a letter written by a son working in the capital to his parents at home, telling some things about his career advancement and his work will be even busier in the future.

At the same time, I miss my brothers and sisters at home, I hope my family is healthy and safe, and I want my parents to take care of themselves.

The letter begins with an honorific, addressing the parents as “Dear parents.”

It can be seen that people at that time were very polite.

Afraid that there might be something valuable in the letter paper inside the envelope, he opened the other envelopes and read them again.

Sure enough, inside the letter paper of an envelope, I found another red factory one-hundred-yuan note.

This can be considered an unexpected gain!

After checking the envelopes, he put them all away, still placed them in the literature book, and then picked them up and put them in the desk drawer.