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Chapter 353 Strange Stone

"Teacher, isn't the green embroidery on the copperware its ID card?" asked the female treasure friend.

"What you said is interesting. Who told you that?"

Zhang Yang wants to know who is so good at deceiving people.

"I heard it from an old man when I was in the Antique City."

"He didn't sell you anything?"

"Originally they wanted to sell me bronzes, but an aunt next to me told me that buying and selling bronzes was illegal, so I didn't dare to buy them."

The girl friend looks very legal.

"But I bought a Qing Dynasty Guanyin statue."

"Teacher, please help me later."

"Why do you have to wait a while? Do you have anything else to identify?"

According to Zhang Yang's experience, it is not easy for such an old-fashioned residential house built in the last century to hide a real copper stove from the Qing Dynasty.

The kind that can produce big treasures are often old houses with a history of hundreds of years. Every brick and tile inside is dated, so it is easy to produce high-quality antiques.

It’s better not to think about this condition, Baoyou.

"Some, some, and one more."

"Teacher, what do you think of this chair?"

What Baoyou wants to appraise this time is a Taishi chair from her old house.

"This chair is said to have belonged to my great-grandfather. He snatched it back when the landowners split up. Teacher, could you please help me see if it's worth anything?"

"Just grabbed an imperial chair? Don't you have any antique vases or something?"

In Zhang Yang's view, folk furniture may be the most difficult category to produce high-quality products.

Because in modern times, those precious woods were basically monopolized by the royal family and high-ranking officials. Ordinary wealthy businessmen and squires could not buy them even if they had money.

"I don't know why I grabbed a chair..."

[It’s the most cost-effective time to share practical things]

[Indeed, at that time, a cow was better than anything else]

[Antique vases are really useless and ordinary people can’t sell them at all]

[As an ordinary person, it should be best to be given gold bars and grain]

"Okay, bring the camera closer and let me see the texture of the wood."

The wood used for Baoyou's Taishi chair has a dark red cut surface with V-shaped patterns.

Just like chicken wings.

"This piece of yours is made of modern wenge wood."

"What does chicken wing wood mean? Is it specially used for roasting chicken wings? Is this kind of wood valuable?" Baoyou had many questions after hearing Zhang Yang's appraisal results.

"It's just a common name for a certain kind of mahogany with special patterns. Wenge wood has been used to make furniture in ancient China for hundreds of years."

"This piece of yours is not very valuable, only two thousand yuan. It is too new, and the carving is also very rough. There is almost no carving skill at all."

"Let's take a look at your Qing Dynasty Guanyin statue, shall we?"

Zhang Yang took a look at the barrage, and everyone thought it was more fun to watch people get fooled.

No matter how worthless this chair is, it is still Baoyou’s pure profit.

It's more fun to lose money.

Soon, Baoyou came back with the Guanyin statue that cost her more than 8,000 yuan.

The Guanyin statue is completely dark. If it weren't for the gloss on the surface, you wouldn't be able to tell it was made of stone.

"Is this being sold as black jade?"

When Zhang Yang saw the black stone, he subconsciously thought of black jade.

But Baoyou shook his head and explained: "This is Chu Shi."

"What stone? What two words are you talking about?" Zhang Yang had never heard of this word.

"Chu of Chu State, stone of stone, stone of Chu."

Zhang Yang quickly searched and found out that the so-called Chu stone was [Smokestone], which was a common carving stone in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Because it was once produced in the Dongkou and Xinhua areas of Hunan Province, it is also known as Chu Shi.

The value is said to be comparable to Tianhuang Stone.

Buying Tianhuang for eight thousand is really a dream. “Friend Bao, this is dyed marble.”

"Impossible, marble can't be so black. The marble floors at home have white stripes." Baoyou retorted confidently.

"So it's dyed."

Zhang Yang smiled helplessly.

"Think about it, the person selling it to you knows that the stone is very valuable, and then he sells it to you cheaply."

"Isn't this the same as someone telling you that the current price of gold is 500 yuan per gram. I think you are destined to sell it to you for 300 yuan per gram. What is the purpose of people losing money like this?"

[The anchor revealed the truth]

[Of course I want you to earn more money]

[Eight thousand yuan is wasted]

[You dare to buy it even if you don’t understand it at all]

[I have seen this kind of Chu stone before, there are very few genuine ones, most of them are seals]

……

Saying goodbye to this treasure friend who really wanted to get rich, Zhang Yang's next treasure friend who even brought out wheat was also a stone.

And it’s the famous meat stone.

"Friend Bao, where did you get so many meat stones?"

Zhang Yang has seen this kind of strange stone that is shaped and colored like pork before. The treasure of the island provincial museum is this kind of stone, called braised meat stone.

But this was the first time he had seen such a wide variety of items in Baoyou’s collection.

There are raw meats, cooked meats, and even pork liver-shaped ones.

The most amazing thing is a piece of pork belly stone, the surface is a little yellow, like raw pork that has just been burned by fire.

It looks old and fragrant.

"I picked these all up."

"Picked it up? Where did you pick it up? Bring me one."

Zhang Yang originally thought Baoyou was joking, but he actually said a place name:

"Alxa."

"In my hometown, there are a lot of this kind of stone. If it is broken, it becomes agate, which is also very beautiful."

Zhang Yang can really believe the place name Baoyou.

Because of Alxa’s Gobi stones, many meat stones have been produced before, and some were even sold at auctions.

Although the current market for this kind of strange stone has cooled down a bit due to the large number of counterfeiters, as long as there is proof of the material and it is sent to the auction, there is no need to worry about no one buying it.

"Friend Bao, you have made a fortune. You are not picking up stones, you are picking up gold!"

"Really? Teacher, I was introduced to the appraisal by a friend. He said that stones like mine are very valuable, but I searched on the Internet and found that many of them are only sold for a few thousand yuan."

"A few thousand dollars? Is it red-skinned? Then layer by layer..."

"Yes, yes." Baoyou nodded repeatedly, "That color is brighter than mine."

"The kind you are talking about is probably not the Gobi stone from Alxa, but the stratified rock mined from some stone mine."

Zhang Yang was impressed by the meat stone worth several thousand yuan that Baoyou mentioned.

In fact, it is red stratified rock that has been artificially carved into the shape of meat stone.

Those are usually square and square, like pieces of meat cut out by a knife on a chopping board. They are completely different from naturally formed meat stones.

After listening to Zhang Yang's explanation, Baoyou hesitated and asked the question she was most concerned about: "Teacher, how much are these stones worth?"

"The most expensive one is probably the stone with a slightly burnt surface. I think it shouldn't be a problem to sell it for four to five million."

The publicity price is very low. As long as it is a strange stone, the final transaction price depends on your eyesight.

"Pork liver stone is probably about the same."

"The remaining ones are worth at least 100,000 yuan."

[I picked up an apartment directly]

[Fifty thousand is still low, that stone feels like it could be sold for 100 million]

[I am a Muslim and I can’t stand this kind of stone]

[Actually, I think the pig liver stone is more expensive]

(End of this chapter)