Chapter 33: The Underground Black Market (3)
The long hair and bald head spread out the painting axis and circled the field for a while, and finally placed it on the booth. Chen Yan poked Tang Feng with his elbow and asked, "How is it? Are they true or not?"
"Who do you think I am?" Tang Feng said: "If you can see clearly, I'm still here?"
The brush head cleared his throat and said, "The price is 36,000 yuan. Boss who are interested in bidding can come and take a look now." In order to facilitate the buyer's inspection, the bald head turned on the headlights on the booth.
There are their own rules for underground black market trading. In order to avoid buying from comparing with each other and purchasing with the best, and for the sake of transaction safety, they will not put out all the things at once, but will finish reading one and then replacing the next one.
The words of the brush head are also very skillful. Bosses who are interested in bidding can come up and take a look now. The meaning is very clear. If you are not interested, then you won’t bother you. After he finished speaking, some people who were interested in rubbing came to the booth to watch. According to the rules of the underground black market, this is called the first test. A group of people lined up to see. The first test time is very short and it is not allowed to touch it. It can only be said to be a quick look.
Although you can't touch and only see for the first time, buyers have their own methods. Some wear reading glasses and magnifying glasses, some use mobile phones to take photos, some use high-tech, digital cameras to take photos, and check information on your laptop. Then, they enlarge the photos on your laptop and scan them progressively by dozens of times. There is no trace of flaws.
Although there are many people participating in the first trial, the scene is very quiet and much more orderly than the museum. They only communicate in a low voice with their own people and do not express their opinions publicly. This is their place, and it is not a wise choice to disrupt the situation here. Even Tang Feng, a countryside "big mouth" like Tang Feng, is silent.
This is a mounted rubbing scroll of inscriptions and calligraphy. In the identification of cultural relics, it is difficult to identify rubbings of inscriptions and calligraphy. The so-called rubbings are used to mark the rubbings of the calligraphy works engraved on paper. Because the stone steles are all open-air and are easily damaged, the closer the time to the time of erecting the stele, the clearer the rubbings, and the higher the value. China is the hometown of calligraphy, and the market for calligraphy works in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places has always been high. In 2004, the Yuan Dynasty Xianyushu's "Cursive Stone Drum Song" auctioned by Beijing Hanhai was as high as 46 million yuan.
Tang Feng carefully observed this rubbing scroll. The value of the rubbings of the inscriptions is definitely not as valuable as the calligraphy written directly on paper, and this is not the full text rubbing. But when Tang Feng looked at the title, he knew that if the rubbings were real, the value would definitely be less than one million. If you earn 36,000 yuan, it would definitely be worth the money, because this is the rubbings of Master Meng. Master Meng's stele was written by Chu Suiliang, one of the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty", and the original stone has been lost. Only the handed-born rubbings were the only ones collected by Li Gongbo of Linchuan, which are now in Japan.
"Hey, what's going on?" This was the third time Chen Yan asked Tang Feng. Tang Feng whispered to him: "Sit down and talk."
Tang Feng and the others sat back on their seats. After a while, the others who participated in the first test also sat back and said politely: "Bosses, the bidding signs are all placed on the second floor of the coffee table, and now you can bid."
Although this is an underground black market, everything is operating properly and the market is becoming more and more standardized. Of course, the underground black market must keep pace with the times. Now, WT has begun to O.
"Call it's a price?" Chen Yan looked at Tang Feng with a sign in hand. Tang Feng shook his head and whispered: "Fake." Tang Feng can now guarantee that this is fake, because this rubbing of Master Meng's stele has annotations. Its signature is Linde Three Years. This signature is like a bulldozer, which pushes all the positive evidence in front.
Linde was the reign name of Li Zhi, the Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty. Li Zhi had a bad habit and liked to change the reign name. During his 33 years in power, he changed the reign name more than a dozen times. However, the reign name was only two years in total, and there was no such thing as Linde. If you insist on figuring out how many years the three years of Linde was, it was in 666 AD. The reign name was changed to Qianfeng, and 666 was the first year of Qianfeng. Of course, this does not mean that if the signature was the first year of Qianfeng, this rubbing was real. Since the exact evidence of it being a fake has been found, there is no need to continue to identify it.
It is only when the underground black market does not sell fakes. Antique counterfeits are a long-lasting industry. There are many famous counterfeit places in Chinese history. Forged ancient calligraphy and paintings, ancient jade is the most famous. The counterfeit antiques in Suzhou are called Suzhou films, and there are also Yangzhou films, Guangzhou films, etc. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, Beijing’s counterfeits were also very famous, and Beijing’s Houmen Bridge was called backdoor fabrics. These are all forgery by professionals, and there are also some famous masters. In the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty, famous masters such as Tang Bohu and Zhu Yunming participated in counterfeiting, and most people couldn’t see it at all.
There are five collections in Chinese history, and this is also accompanied by five fakes. Chen Yan understood why these turtle grandsons are no longer robbed now. Selling fakes means huge profits, which is more money than robbery.
"Thirty-six!" "Thirty-seven!" Here was a discussion, and there was still continuing to quote. Tang Feng and the others did not participate in the quote, and they all listened to other people's comments. When Tang Feng heard the words of the two middle-aged people around him, he knew that these two were knowledgeable people. He was a little strange. It was not difficult to identify the rubbing scroll. Why did these two keep quoting up?
The quotation was 38,000 yuan, and there were only four participants left. One buyer spoke. He said, "I haven't confirmed the first test yet. I just want to take a try and see if I can get a flaw. If I report it, I feel uneasy. Can I repeat the test?"
It was obviously not the first time the person who was talking came. Ban Shun's head smiled and said, "You can come up after you call 36,000."
"I said it earlier, I thought you had changed the rules?" The speaker walked towards the booth. After the bidding, even if he was a potential buyer, he could re-examination and then take a closer look.
After the re-examination was over, the quotation continued. When it reached 40,000 yuan, the two people around Tang Feng gave up the quotation. A middle-aged man whispered to his companion: "Forget it, there will be no profit if you report it any more. After all, it is fake and cannot deceive people who know how to do it." Hey, these two bastards, they still have to buy it if they know it. It turned out to be used to cheat people.
In the end, the fake rubbing scroll was bought for 42,000 yuan, and another fake item flowed to the market.
The next few items were true and fake, but neither Tang Feng nor Chen Yan looked at them. Chen Yan glanced at the short-haired woman and said to Tang Feng: "Hey, they don't seem to be here to buy things."
Tang Feng said: "Don't just pay attention to her. There are a few people over there who have never bid. Like us, they don't look down on them." The things in the underground black market are as valuable as they come to the back. Don't look at the people in front of them jumping high, when they come to the back, these people are basically sculptures.
The brush head continued, "The next item is sealed by Tongzhou County in the Tang Dynasty."
"Tongzhou County Seal." Chen Yan's eyes immediately shone, and he said, "If it were an ancient official seal at home, how shameless would it be?"
Tang Feng said: "Don't be anxious first, at least you have to figure out which Tongzhou it is." There are two Tongzhous in Chinese history, and a very famous couplet mentions Tongzhou, the east pawn shop, the west pawn shop, the east pawn shop, the east pawn shop, the east pawn shop, the east pawn shop, the south, the north and south Tongzhou. The north and south Tongzhou here refer to Tongzhou District of Nantong City, modern Jiangsu and the modern Beijing Tongzhou District. If this is the official seal of ancient Tongzhou in Beijing, it will definitely be popular in the Beijing market. Chen Yan is from Tongzhou, so it is normal to be interested in this.
Chapter completed!