Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The value of a document is closely related to the content recorded on it, but it is also closely related to the carrier of the document. For example, a medieval document can easily sell for thousands or even tens of thousands of euros if it is relatively well-preserved.

But if it is a replica from the 1930s and 1940s, only a high-quality copy made of the same material and copied can be sold for a few hundred or thousands of euros. If you just copy the content of the document without making it old, it may only cost a few dozen euros.

Of course, the difficulty of selling these items is also very different. If it is the original, it is very easy to find a buyer, and it can also be sold at a premium. Those modern imitations are not only difficult to sell, but also at a discount.

According to the data, the warehouses are basically the cheapest imitations from an archaeological perspective, so it is naturally unlikely to attract professional antique dealers.

But even so, it is not easy to participate in this auction. After all, as an official auction, it is naturally impossible to mess up the situation like a private auction, especially because they also know that these things can easily attract new spicy organizations.

After all, they are libraries named after the country, and to a certain extent they represent the image of the country, so the library does not want to be known as providing items to far-right organizations.

Therefore, they have a strict identity verification process for those who participate in the auction to ensure that no one of the notorious New Spicy Organizations obtains what they regard as sacred items from this place.

Fortunately, Liang En is now a well-known historian and antique dealer. In addition, he has done a series of things in the Czech Republic, so even though the registration time has passed, he still got admission to the auction. Vouchers.

It has to be said that doing everything according to the rules as much as possible and accumulating more fame is a very valuable thing. Although this approach will indeed lose a lot of short-term benefits, if the timeline is extended, the various benefits will gradually be reflected. .

For example, some occasions that restrict participation in status are not accessible only with money. The reputation accumulated at this time becomes very valuable, and a larger contact surface means more opportunities and greater potential. benefit.

"It's all thanks to you this time." Officer Burke said seriously. It was now the third day that they came to Prague, that is, when the auction started, Liang En and the two police officers went to the library to specially prepare the auction. A hall where the auction opens.

According to their previous plan, the two police officers would disguise themselves as Liang En's staff and enter the auction site to observe whether the target was inside, while Joan of Arc and Fan Meng would hide in a nearby car with weapons ready to respond.

In addition, Liang En also used Burke's channel to transport his three ravens. Because drones are too conspicuous in crowded places like urban areas, it is difficult for creatures like ravens to attract attention.

Ravens carry pocket cameras. For these highly intelligent little guys, they have long learned to hide these cameras in front of humans and only take pictures secretly at critical moments.

According to their judgment, although the museum will carry out corresponding identity verification work, old far-right organizations like the Thule Society should have a way to sneak in.

After all, even an organization like the Golden Society, which has been keeping an eye on the Thule Association, has at most figured out less than 1/3 of the opponent's internal structure, so the possibility of the Czech side recognizing this group of people is almost zero.

But this also has an advantage, that is, the Czech side will basically filter out those messy guys, making it easier for Liang En and the others to lock in the real target.

If a group of far-right groups all join the auction, it may be confusing. From this perspective, identity screening is still valuable.

Because there are requirements for the identity of the buyer, there were not many people at today's auction. There were only a dozen or so people sitting sparsely in a multi-functional hall that didn't look too big.

When the time was up, a host walked in, then turned on the multimedia equipment in the hall and announced that the auction would begin.

Perhaps because the person hosting the auction is a library staff member rather than a professional auctioneer, the auction is very different from an ordinary auction.

There isn't much content here to stir up everyone's emotions. It's just as simple as taking out items one by one and letting everyone bid, and then the highest bidder gets it.

Of course, even if they are not professionals, they know that good things must not be put first, otherwise no one will buy other things, so the auction started with only some books of little value.

These decades-old books are far from antiques. At most it can only be said to be a second-hand book. Fortunately, Europe is more concerned about copyright, so the market for these second-hand books is pretty good.

Therefore, when these books were put out on a bookshelf-by-shelf basis, several people who were obviously second-hand book dealers started bidding very actively.

However, I have also observed that there is a bottom line for the bidding between them. Whenever the price rises to a certain level, some people will give up on their own initiative. It is obvious that these businessmen are very rational.

After all, the profit in the second-hand book industry is not very high. For these professional businessmen, they must control the auction price to a certain quantity limit, otherwise they may not make any money at all with transportation and sales costs.

More than an hour later, the previous used book auction finally ended, and then the library began to auction the most important Heydrich collection of books in the auction without any rest time.

The auction has been intense from the beginning. According to Liang En's previous estimate, this thing should be worth between 1.2 million and 1.5 million euros. For this matter, he also borrowed a sum of money from several friends.

But now the situation is obviously out of control, because Liang En discovered that although the starting price was only 800,000 euros, the price increased to 2 million in just three increases, and it was still soaring.

"Now we can confirm one thing, that is, the person who bought it is definitely not an antique dealer. Because the price now far exceeds the price of antiques of the same level."

When the auction price exceeded 3.5 million euros, Liang En whispered his judgment to Burke beside him.

"Although spicy crisps are indeed very anti-human, the market for things related to them is not small now, and there are people who specialize in collecting these things. However, antique dealers generally do not raise the prices so high."

"In other words, the people who are paying this price now should be buying it for themselves, and they are buying it for some special reasons." Burke stared at the three people who were bidding one after another and nodded.

"I have used the surveillance camera on my body to record the current situation and uploaded it. I hope to obtain information about these people and then conduct further screening."

"Can this analysis be completed before the auction ends?" Liang En asked in a low voice. "If they are not completed before the auction ends, it will be too difficult for us to track them down."

"Don't worry, there is absolutely no problem on this point." Burke nodded seriously. "In fact, I sent those photos over as soon as I came in. More than an hour was enough for them to investigate the identities of everyone on the field."