Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After obtaining Carter's permission, Liang En quickly walked into the warehouse. After spending 15 minutes looking around, he found that there were not as many things in the warehouse that he could exchange as he had imagined.

After all, Mr. Carter is a modern weapons enthusiast, and this warehouse is located underneath the gun shop, so most of the space is used to store various firearms and weapons, but for Liang En, these things are not what he needs. .

Yes, he does like weapons, but he is not very interested in these weapons that he cannot take home. Especially these weapons do not exist in front of his eyes, so if he ignores those weapons, he actually needs to look for them. Not much.

After skipping the section where weapons were stacked, he ran around twice where various things were stored, and then picked out two wooden boxes with Japanese written on them and pulled them to the warehouse on a small trailer. entrance.

One of the two boxes contained more than a hundred glassware, while the other box contained fifty or sixty ceramic vessels. Through the Japanese on the box and the labels on these vessels, Liang En discovered that these items all came from Japan in the 19th century.

"Have you already picked it out?" Looking at Liang En, who was dragging two large boxes over on a cart, Carter smiled and said, "But the total of these two boxes is a little over 120,000."

Obviously, Mr. Carter knows his collection well. So just by looking at the box and checking the stickers I put on the outside, I knew the box and knew what was inside.

"I haven't finished picking yet." Liang En smiled and shook his head. "It's just that these two things are a bit big, so I sent them over for inspection first, and then moved them to the car."

"That's good, so as not to have to run several times in a while." Carter nodded, then went to the rest room outside the treasure house door and opened the two boxes.

The first thing to open is a box containing various glassware. This is a type of carved glassware called Satsuma Kiriko. This kind of thing was created by Shimazu, the 27th generation lord of Kagoshima, in the early 19th century. Incorporating Chinese glass plating techniques and European polishing techniques.

After Liang En opened the box, he found that there were cups and dishes, teapots and cups, wine glasses, vases, perfume bottles, sugar boxes, keychains and other gadgets in the box.

In addition, these glassware are also colorful and engraved with various patterns such as squares, bamboo leaves, leaves, spirals, etc. Each vessel is unique.

Considering that these items are relatively small in size and come in various styles and colors, this box of items must have been collected consciously by someone.

When Liang En took out one of the cups with gradient colors and looked at the light, he found that under the light, the cup reflected a dazzling brilliance like a gem, as beautiful as a flowing gem.

"This looks so beautiful." Fan Meng and the others sighed when they saw the light reflected on the glassware.

According to Carter, although these Japanese carved glassware require hand processing and artistic design, the nature of industrial production still reduces their points a lot.

Therefore, even though he knew that there might be hand-made fine products in these things, Carter, who had collected the whole box together, simply calculated the inflation rate and gave it to Liang En at the price of US$80,000.

Another box contains Arita-yaki Kakiemon porcelain. Kakiemon is the founder of Japanese painted porcelain. Since the seventeenth century, painted porcelain "Kakiemon" has been highly regarded in the world. evaluation of.

This was mainly due to the seclusion of the Qing Dynasty, so the Dutch East India Company first introduced Kakiemon porcelain to Europe. With its colorful visual advantages, it quickly became popular, and Japan's export porcelain also entered a glorious era.

Since then, European ceramic companies such as Meissen in Germany, Chelsea in the UK and Delvert in the Netherlands have begun to imitate Japanese export porcelain and fire their own porcelain.

Kakiemon's red-painted porcelain technique also aroused the interest of Europeans and was widely imitated, exerting an important influence on the development of European porcelain style.

For this reason, Kakiemon porcelain is highly accepted throughout the Western world, which naturally makes it easy to sell.

However, as a brand, Kakiemon's development has not only had highs but also lows. For example, during the Meiji period, the production of luxury goods was prohibited, which resulted in most of the products produced by Kakiemon from the 9th to the 11th generation were daily necessities.

Although these daily utensils are rare in terms of quantity, due to the style and other reasons, the research value is greater than the collection value, so they basically cannot be sold at a good price.

And now the box that Liang En found contained mostly daily necessities of this type, which is why Mr. Carter priced these items at only $40,000.

"Can you tell me what kind of things you like?" Carter said as he watched Fan Meng and the others push the two boxes to the elevator.

"I know every item in the collection very clearly, so if you are willing to tell me what type of items you want to choose, I might be able to give you some valuable suggestions."

"Is there anything related to China?" Liang En asked after thinking for a while.

"Is it something from China? I didn't consciously collect cultural relics from China before." Carter thought for a while and said. "But there should be some here and there."

After finishing speaking, he quickly took Liang En to the back of the warehouse and moved out seven or eight items.

Most of these things were porcelain. Although they looked really good, after a simple inspection, Liang En found that they were just porcelain from folk kilns in the middle and late Qing Dynasty and were not very valuable.

The other cultural relics from China are mainly a few Buddha statues and a few paintings. Unfortunately, these items are from the middle and late Qing Dynasty. At the same time, the production level is very average, and they can be regarded as completely commercial goods.

"What is this?" After checking the items that were moved out, Liang En shook his head and was about to start the card to try his luck, when he saw Carter pushing a large plastic box out on another cart.

"What's in here?" Liang En frowned as he looked at the large plastic box. Because the plastic box was opaque, it was impossible to see what it was.

"This is a bamboo slip from China. I bought it from a Japanese collector before along with his other collections. Although it has been treated, it is still very fragile, so I can only use this method to install it."

After speaking, Carter turned off most of the lights in the warehouse and opened the lid of the box. What appeared in front of Liang En were beige bamboo slips neatly arranged in fixed plexiglass panels, with black text written on them.

"How can the Japanese sell this thing?" Liang En had a puzzled look on his face as he looked at these bamboo slips, each of which was about 40cm long and perfectly processed.

Because judging from the processing level of this thing. Those handlers should know the value of these bamboo slips, not to mention that the seller is Japanese, and can be said to be the person who knows the most about China besides the Chinese.

"It seems that the collector of this thing passed away due to an accident, and he had no close relatives. He could only inherit these things by an American nephew."

"It turned out that because his company was not doing well, the nephew put all the inherited things up for auction in the United States, and I sold this pile of things at the auction here in Las Vegas."

"Okay, how much do you want to sell this thing for?" After listening to the other party's statement, Liang En checked the bamboo slips again, and then he nodded and asked Carter opposite.