The Ghost Market was a real test of one's eyesight.
There was a saying in the antique shop that eyesight was the key to luck.
What did he mean?
If you encountered a good item, you would need luck. However, if you could recognize a good item, you would need eyesight.
There were items with large doors in the museum. You could go and see for yourself. However, in the market, as long as the items with large doors were placed there, 99% of them would be a sinkhole.
Everyone liked good items. In the environment of the later world, there were many self-taught people on the Internet.
Everyone held a book and felt that they were experts.
This antique was good, but who was the easiest to fool?
Newbie?
No, it wasn't.
The easiest people to fool were those self-proclaimed experts who didn't know anything and were still wandering around with half a bottle of water.
They were the ones who were the most eye-catching and the ones who were the most scammed.
As for the two items that He Yuhao had received, they were ancient coins and rhinoceros horn bowls. Ordinary people would not be able to tell. In this era, the collection of Quan Zhen had not yet started. No one had realized that Quan Zhen was so fun. Most of them were concentrated on porcelain and jade, as well as ancient books and famous people's calligraphy and paintings.
After all, it was an old tradition. Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty, had made it known to everyone that Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Orchid Pavilion was still in Li Shimin's coffin.
The items that He Yuhao touched were called " miscellaneous items " in the antique shop. Porcelain, paintings, jade, and bronze were all miscellaneous items.
Therefore, it was considered non-mainstream.
However, the non-mainstream produced a miracle!
You couldn't compare it to the Yuan Dynasty's blue and white flowers, but top-notch miscellaneous items were also expensive. For example, the pair of rhinoceros horn bowls in He Yuhao's hands. Rhinoceros horn products had been banned worldwide, so ancient rhinoceros horn products were becoming more and more precious. Not only were they liked in China, but they were also liked abroad.
In 2018, he auctioned a rhinoceros horn pagoda from the Qianlong Palace for 30 million US dollars, about 190 million yuan!
"We can look for wood carvings!"
He Yuhao narrowed his eyes. There was nothing else he was interested in.
Immediately, he packed his things and walked to another stall. In the darkness, He Yuhao covered his pocket with his hand. The ancient coins and rhinoceros horn bowl in his pocket were instantly transferred into his interspace.
To ensure that he was safe and sound!
Soon, He Yuhao found something good.
A row of snuff bottles!
Good heavens, this thing was rare and precious.
Snuff bottles could be said to be one of the pinnacle of Chinese porcelain. No matter what it was, it was not easy to make it big or small.
Take porcelain for example. The biggest porcelain that everyone had seen was probably the huge mallet bottle placed next to the television. As for the small ones, this snuff bottle was one of the best.
But in reality, it was not easy to make it so big and so small.
The big ones would have unstable bodies, and the small ones would be difficult to paint under the heat.
Therefore, the smaller and more exquisite the snuff bottle, the higher the price.
The key was that you didn't have a place to buy a good snuff bottle. This thing was the treasure of the old masters. Because it was small and expensive, especially in the past, until they ran out of supplies, those sons of the Eight Banners wouldn't sell it!
Most of these things were from the Qing Dynasty. If you wanted one from the Ming Dynasty, it would either be fake or not. It was not that the longer the dynasty, the better. This thing only came out in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Moreover, in terms of exquisiteness, it was not good to hold it. If you wanted one from the Enamel Color, and it was a silk inlaid Enamel, it would be awesome!
Just that hand alone was enough to make him feel like a fairy.
However, this antique was the easiest to counterfeit. During the Republic of China, it was the peak of counterfeit antiques. Or rather, at that time, it was the peak of all counterfeit antiques. Some people forged them to protect the fake ones. They kept the real ones and sold the fake ones to foreigners.
The other part was purely to see if it was profitable and use it to scam people.
In this dark place, porcelain was the easiest place to step on lightning.
He Yuhao squatted down and looked at each and every one of them carefully.
"Boss, can I help you?"
"Lun Yuan!"
"Then forget it!"
He Yuhao stood up and turned around to leave. The boss didn't even call out to him. That was how the black market was. If you left, you would leave. It meant that you weren't fated.
He continued strolling around. This was simply He Yuhao's heaven, but unfortunately, he didn't bring a flashlight.
"Next time, put 10 flashlights in this space!”
He Yuhao felt regretful.
Soon, He Yuhao smiled. The black market not only sold antiques, but also many other things, such as donkeys, cattle, horses, and even…
Human!
It was very normal. In an era where people did not have enough to eat, it was also a helpless move to insert a bid and sell the lead.
It was not important to talk about policies, but in this era, workers were the best. As for farmers, they were much worse, especially those with many children. It was normal for them to rely on the people in the city to provide financial support. Han Chunming's mother also often had to provide financial support to her family!
However, after taking two steps, He Yuhao squatted down again because there was also a snuff bottle on the stall.
"Can you use it?"
"Do as you please. Be careful!"
"Good!"
He Yuhao didn't look directly at the snuff bottle. Instead, he looked at other things. He Yuhao was weak in ancient books and rare books. Why did he have to learn from the Nine Gates Inspector? It was because he wanted to learn the contents of this area.
Before he transmigrated, there were many famous people who appreciated calligraphy and paintings, but there were very few who appreciated ancient books.
Han Chunming was a genius in this area. In his collection, there were countless ancient books. This also meant that the Nine Gates Inspector taught him well.
What He Yuhao was good at were spring treasures, ancient coins, and jade.
The reason was simple. The teacher who taught him back then married a woman from Jade Nation. Her family was a warlord who sold raw jade.
Therefore, as his disciple, He Yuhao could not only open the jade for free every year, but also go to the real jade mine to experience digging for jade himself.
According to his teacher, with He Yuhao's current eyesight, he could easily become a jade consultant in any jewelry store after five years in the jade mine.
He Yuhao was also good at carving bamboo teeth and wooden horns. He Yuhao was good at it too. It was a family skill. He Yuhao's hometown was the most famous woodcarving industry in the country. His neighbor made mahogany. He Yuhao had played there since he was young and had learned a lot of skills.
Slowly, He Yuhao reached for the snuff bottle.
"This is interesting!"
Looking at it carefully, he realized that this thing actually looked like it, but it was obviously fake.
No, in the antique shop, there was no such thing as "fake" porcelain. There was only "new".
This one was too new.
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