Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 308 More than eight million pieces

   "Not bad...just not bad?!"

  Neil, an appraiser from the British Museum, almost collapsed when he heard Ye Dongqing's words.

His salary is considered very good in London, and with the professional knowledge he has accumulated, he can occasionally earn some extra money, such as helping others identify items, go to the store to pick up leaks to earn the difference, etc., and sometimes participate in small Auction, pick out some good things that others didn't recognize.

Over fifty years old, with the accumulation of time, the total net worth of Neil appraiser has exceeded 10 million pounds, most of which exist in the form of collections. If you want to buy a high-end apartment in London or a villa near the suburbs, then Sure enough, as for the house in Kensington Palace Gardens, the old man dared not even think about it.

It was a street built with money, and the people who could live there were billionaires. Thinking of Ye Dongqing's age, he felt deeply hopeless, and reminded him helplessly: "If you even look at the houses on Kensington Garden Street, If you don’t, then there won’t be any houses in London that satisfy you. I mean the ones that can be sold.

  I have been in London since I was born. Believe me, it is very cost-effective whether it is living by myself or investing. Recently, the land price in London has been rising, and there is no shortage of rich people who want to settle in this city. "

This is not the first time she has come to London. Ye Dongqing probably knows where Kensington Palace is. She used to go to some popular attractions, so how could she look at houses specifically? She replied politely: "Thank you for your suggestion. I will seriously consider it. Now Let’s look at things first, I only want the ones with the most collection value, please help me pick them out, if the price is right, I will consider buying all the boutiques.”

  Mr. Beckenbauer was so excited when he heard this, he snapped his fingers and said, "Yes! We need to make sure before others! Then let's go and see it now!"

  Neither the appraiser Neil nor the director of the branch of Danshui Investment Group in the UK, still don’t know who this guy is, and Ye Dongqing didn’t intend to introduce him. He just regarded it as a friend who came together and entered the villa together...

  The decoration is not bad, with a sense of vicissitudes left over from the years. Even the best oak wood will lose its luster after being trampled on for hundreds of years. Even if it is clean, it feels like it is covered with a layer of dust.

It seems that it has not been renovated for some years, and a piece of the stair railing has been broken. There is an oil painting hanging on the wall. Judging from the clothes on his body, Old Neil recognized at a glance that it was the portrait of Admiral Seymour of the Navy. He pointed to it and whispered Ye Dongqing: "The painting skills are not good, but I don't know if the painter is famous. I can't guess who it is before I finish the research, but at least it can be worth ten to twenty thousand pounds. Young people don't remember this historical navy. Marshal, he hasn't had too many accomplishments."

In other people's homes, Ye Dongqing's face was a little weird when he said that other people's ancestors did not do well. He was afraid that people in the Seymour family would hear him, and he might be kicked out of the house. Sell ​​the portraits of your ancestors? We mainly look at old boutiques today, and they are not my ancestors, so even if I could buy them, I wouldn’t want them!”

  There are quite a lot of things, someone picked out more than 200 pieces, and randomly placed them on coffee tables, dining tables, and wooden shelves.

Ye Dongqing is a layman, no matter what he looks at, it looks like the real thing. It feels like a Chinese porcelain exhibition, blue and white plates, colored glaze bottles, three-colored horses, etc., surrounded by the group of people who came in first, wearing white gloves. Touch, the magnifying glass has not been put back in the pocket.

   "Mr. Beckenbauer, so what's going on today, just looking at something, even if I bid, I can't take it away?"

   "Of course... no, I will talk to the owner of these things for you, as long as the price is right, you can move back to your own home at any time!

   Look, what an exquisite tricolor horse, it must be one meter high, if not in such an old family, where else can you find something similar? "

At this time, I was only thinking about how to get Ye Dongqing to buy more things so that I could earn the commission paid by the seller. Mr. Beckenbauer praised him as soon as he entered the door, just like in his antique shop. Originally, let people take a look at it in advance today. After all, there are so many things that it is difficult to finish reading in one day. However, he and the Seymour family have known each other before, and they think it is probably okay.

   “Really a fine antique, even one of this size is rare in the British Museum.”

  Old Neil appraiser looked calm, and was not tempted by these things.

Thinking about it, as the chief appraiser of the British Museum, he has the right to have access to the more than 8 million collections in the warehouse. The things that others think are precious are already boring in his eyes, and there are too many in the collection room. , the exhibits exhibited to tourists are less than one percent of the inventory, and there are precious cultural relics from all over the world.

There are so many in a museum, but they will not be sold easily. Otherwise, such a large scale will flow to the market, and the entire collection industry will collapse. Take Picasso’s works as an example. There are hundreds of them in the warehouse of the British Museum. There is no shortage of high-quality goods, and looking at the entire market, how many Picasso works are traded every year? Very few.

It’s not that there’s a real lack of antiques, but high-quality antiques, and the help of the National Museum has reduced market liquidity, leading to relatively large bubbles. It’s okay when the world order is stable, but the value of antiques will drop immediately when there is a disturbance, and gold is Come the other way.

Ye Dongqing knows this, so he is not interested in ordinary goods. Even if he buys them back and puts them in those private collection rooms, he will not be able to surprise himself or his guests. Good stuff, I just took the time to check it out.

Seeing these people still standing beside him, he said: "Please help me to have a look, as long as the high-quality goods are rare and have collection value, I think I have been at Sotheby's auction house for so long, you two You must be very experienced, right?"

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  Tang Sancai horse, Yuan Dynasty blue and white pot with cloud and dragon pattern.

  Old Neil appraiser walked around and told him that these two pieces are the most valuable, and there are also some calligraphy and paintings, no one is proficient in this aspect, and few people pay attention to them hanging there.

Ye Dongqing heard that he went to see it by himself, as if he had opened his eyes and was blind. When he was standing next to a flower and bird painting and staring at the signature carefully, a man of yellow race in his thirties came over and asked him in English: "Japanese ?”

   "Chinese, what about you?"

   "Hey, compatriots, my family is from Yanjing? I haven't seen anyone so arrogant abroad. There are all luxury cars forming a fleet. Let a group of foreigners be bodyguards!"

  He stretched out his hand enthusiastically, and the other party introduced himself: "My surname is Niu, just call me Maverick. I'm thinking about doing some small business by myself, it's not worth mentioning."

   This is really treating Ye Dongqing as the second generation ancestor of the family...

  (end of this chapter)