Treasure Hunt America

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This pen holder is turquoise and engraved with figures and grassland paintings. The carvings are very delicate and beautiful. If you look closely at the carving patterns, you can see that the carvings should be a picture of nomadic herdsmen on the prairie during the Qing Dynasty. (Read the latest chapter starting.bι.)

The pen holder is about twenty-five centimeters high and fifteen centimeters in diameter. It is equipped with a mahogany base and looks very noble and generous.

The most important thing is the strong green light that flashes from this pen holder. Jin Muchen walked around here for a while and saw a lot of treasures. I have never seen a few that can flash so strongly like this pen holder. Jeweled baby.

Jin Muchen pushed the door and entered the store. As soon as he entered, he could feel the strong Chinese style of the store. The archway hanging outside the store is a square character called Yufang. Jin Muchen can guess that the store should be China without entering the door. People or Chinese people can open it.

Sure enough, when I entered the store, I saw the Chinese face of the owner at the counter at the back. It was a young man in his twenties and less than 30, with a medium build and short hair.

"Hello, boss, welcome."

The owner of the store saw Jin Muchen who pushed the door into the store, and hurriedly greeted Jin Muchen with a smile in Mandarin with a broad flavor.

"Hello."

Jin Muchen also smiled and said hello to the shop owner.

This shop is specialized in jade business. The area of ​​the shop is not large, about 100 square meters. It is different from other antique shops. In other antique shops, there will be a lot of calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, or some antique shelves. There are various antiques on it.

There are no frills in this store, just rows of glass counters on the red lining inside the glass counters. On the other hand, there are pieces of jade with different carvings and grades.

Just looking at the layout and order of the store, it feels more like a jewelry store. Not like an antique store.

"Boss, please take a look. If you see it, just say hello. I'm the owner of this store. My name is David Zhang."

The boss heard the accent. He knew that he should be a descendant of Chinese immigrants. Although he also learned the way Chinese people do business and say hello, his Mandarin accent is really lame. Hearing him introduce it is really awkward and funny.

Jin Muchen also briefly introduced himself, and then began to wander around the store, without asking the boss to directly take out the pen holder in the window. (Baidu search network updates the fastest and most stable)

At the first contact, Jin Muchen didn't know the depth of this boss, so he didn't dare to reveal his target easily, but he took a look around in the store. He probably has a spectrum in his mind.

There are indeed a lot of good things in this store, especially the jade items on the counter, which are placed in the outermost row of glass cabinets, and most of them are modern handicrafts imported from China in recent years.

The quality of jade is also very general, there are Qinghai materials, Xiuyan materials, and even Russian materials, but there are no Hetian materials, and the carved things are also varied. Unlike traditional Chinese style stuff, some are even specially designed to cater to western customers.

It seems that it should be the owner of the store who specially purchased it from China, something like this. Most of them are machine-processed, and the price ranges from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars. These things are very suitable for Western consumers, but Chinese collectors will definitely not buy them.

In the two rows of counters further inside, there are some jade articles from the Republic of China period. Most of the materials are ordinary, but there are also a few very good ones. It belongs to Hetian seed material, and the carving work can be regarded as superb, but the price is also much higher than the jade in the front row of cabinets, basically starting from a few thousand dollars.

This kind of jade already has a certain antique value, so the price is too high.

In the innermost row of counters, the jade articles placed are all good things. Some of them are jade handles from the Ming Dynasty, and more should be jade articles from the mid-Qing Dynasty. Almost all of them are Hetian. It is carved from jade. Although the shape is not large, the carving is exquisite, and those jades have been played with for some years. The pulp is oily and the appearance is complete. Boutique.

Jin Muchen took a few glances, and probably had a judgment about this store in his heart. The owner of this store should be very knowledgeable. According to his decoration, the cheapest and most fancy carvings are all placed at the door, attracting passers-by. human eyeball.

But the best things are all placed inside. This is the number of layouts in many antique shops, which shows that the shopkeepers know their own things well.

"Boss, you have a lot of good things in this store. The jade in this store should be the top jade I have seen in the past few years in the United States, right? These old objects from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, even if they are on the mainland. Not too often?"

Jin Muchen said tentatively, and sure enough, the boss surnamed Zhang couldn't bear it any longer when he heard this.

"This is absolutely true, Mr. Jin, I think you are coming to my shop for the first time. You may not know the reputation of my shop. I dare not say anything else. In San Francisco, our family is definitely the best in jade. this."

This boss didn't hide the smug look on his face, and at the same time raised his right thumb, he was educated and raised in the United States since he was a child, and he didn't know how to spell the word modest.

"This shop was handed down by my grandfather, and it has been in my hands for three generations. It has always specialized in the business of jade articles, so if you want to buy suitable jade articles in the United States, you can come to me and find them. correct."

"It really lives up to its reputation. Before I came to San Francisco, my friend mentioned your shop to me, and it was not wrong to recommend it. But I see that the jades you have here are quite old, and it should not be easy to collect so many. ."

Jin Muchen continued to talk almost to this boss.

"That's not right. In order to collect these ancient jades, my grandfather and father put a lot of effort into it. Not only did they travel all over the United States, but they didn't know how many trips to Xiangjiang and Baodao every year, so they collected these treasures. To tell you the truth. , even if Sotheby's and Christie's are going to hold a special auction of Chinese jade, they will come to me to get the goods!"

When the boss said this, his face was even more arrogant. Jin Muchen also believed that what he said was true.

"Mr. Jin, which treasure are you looking for? Do you want me to take it out for you, so you can take a closer look?"

Seeing that Jin Muchen kept dangling in front of those counters, but hesitating and undecided, the boss asked aloud.

Jin Muchen didn't answer, walked around the store again, and then pretended to come to the window inadvertently, suddenly raised his head and snorted, pointed to the sapphire pen holder in the window and said to Boss Zhang.

"Boss Zhang, can you take a look at this pen holder?"

A look of contempt flashed in Boss Zhang's eyes, and he was a rookie who didn't pretend to understand, but said with a smile on his face.

"No problem at all."

After he finished speaking, he took out the pen holder. Jin Muchen carefully picked up the pen holder from the counter and began to watch it.

The pen holder is warm to the touch and feels good in the hand. The turquoise pen holder looks bright and transparent, the material is very solid, and the weight can be about three pounds.

Looking closely at the herdsmen, grasslands, and flocks carved on the pen holder, the lines are very clear, the yin line is soft, the yang line is strong, flat and convex, hidden, hollow and other crafts are used, which are definitely lifelike and exquisitely carved.

At first glance, it is not from the hands of the ordinary family, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Then turn things over and look at the feet, which is incredible, and the four characters of Shiquan old man are written on the feet.

Seeing this, Jin Muchen was surprised at the same time, and his mind finally became clear. No wonder he looked at the jewels on the pen holder so strong, and his feelings were only used by the royal family.

If someone else saw the name of the old Shiquan, they would not dare to easily conclude that this was the pen holder Qianlong used, but Jin Muchen had such a certainty because of his golden eyes.

Emperor Qianlong had an indissoluble bond with jade all his life, and even had the nickname of Emperor Yu Chi. He has handled countless jade articles in his life.

He likes all kinds of jade articles, jade wrench fingers, jade pendants, jade handles, jade cups and bowls, and the four treasures of the study. There are literally thousands of them.

Moreover, this emperor also likes to sign his name on jade articles. Many handed down jade articles have his signature on them. Such a habit makes today's archaeological experts dumbfounded.

Because on the one hand ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has his signature jade, as long as the age is correct, it is basically genuine. After all, the emperor's collection, signing on it, is equivalent to leaving his own inscription. No one dared to make a fake copycat.

But on the other hand, he likes to sign random names on jade articles, but it destroys the integrity of those handed down jade articles. For example, many jade articles from the Ming Dynasty, because they have the signature of his Emperor Qianlong, appear to be nondescript. It looks very awkward.

If this is left to the present, the crime of destroying the first-class national cultural relics will definitely not be able to escape.

The jade pen holder in front of him, if Jin Muchen's estimate is correct, should be a jade pen holder handed down from the Qianlong period, but how could such a precious thing be placed in the window as the least valuable attraction to sweep the streets? What about the furnishings that customers eyeball?

This boss heard him talk before, although it was a bit exaggerated, but looking at him, he seems to be quite good at jade identification.

Jin Muchen was playing with this pen holder in his hand, and he was constantly thinking about it. When he asked the boss to take out the pen just now, he did not miss the contempt that flashed in the boss's eyes. . . (To be continued.) xh118