Chapter 162
Chapter 0162 Rong Baozhai cleared the warehouse! Sadness, I can’t afford it! 【Part 2】Ask for a custom booking, ask for a monthly pass!!!
But there are prerequisites for return.
This premise is that the international auction house has identified the auction item and given a clear result.
Suppose that the “Orchid Pavilion Preface” to be auctioned this time, Christie’s gives a clear identification result, and it is a genuine work.
So after you buy it, you go and ask five recognized experts to appraise.
If the results given by these five experts are false, Christie’s can be asked for a refund.
But if Christie’s identification of the Orchid Pavilion Preface is uncertain and only provides one-sided advice, then you buy it and cannot return it.
Because people made it clear before the auction, they can’t determine the authenticity of this thing, just provide certain suggestions, you buy, it means that you are willing to take this risk.
Most of the items auctioned are just opinions.
There may be thousands, tens of thousands of items, only one or two, get Christie’s unilateral identification results.
Moreover, even if you buy something, Christie’s will give a ‘real’ appraisal result before the auction.
And after you buy it, you think it’s fake.
Then you need to go to five experts, and these five experts must be experts that both Christie’s and you recognize.
But the problem is, not every expert is willing to take on such thankless and tricky work.
Therefore, on the surface, all major international auction houses have refund regulations, but if they are really implemented, the possibility of wanting to refund is almost zero.
Of course, even if the probability is low, at least people have such a clause.
Domestic auction houses do not have such provisions.
Lin Xiao asked: “Did Christie’s identify the Orchid Pavilion Preface?” Is it advice, or is it definitely true? ”
Zhao Yiming shook his head: “I don’t know, I just knew about this matter, and I haven’t started publicizing it yet.” ”
Zhou Hang said: “This kind of item, the auction house will generally give accurate identification results, otherwise no one will buy it.” ”
Pan Jun said: “Yiming, don’t think about it, this thing can’t take your turn.” ”
Zhao Yiming said, “My dad wants it.” ”
“Then you have to have money.”
Pan Jun said, “You don’t want to think about it, if this thing is real, what kind of sky-high price must be auctioned?” ”
“It won’t be cheaper than Savior.”
Zhou Hang said, “Uncle Zhao can’t get so much money out of bankruptcy, right?” ”
“……”
Zhao Yiming said: “People always have dreams. ”
“That can’t be unrealistic.”
Lin Xiao also smiled, yes, even if you take a step back, Christie’s “Orchid Pavilion Preface” auctioned this time is the true work of Wang Xi.
Can you afford it?
Anyway, Lin Xiao couldn’t afford it.
Unless he sold all those jade seals.
However, even if the “Orchid Pavilion Preface” was real, he would not buy it.
Taking “Savior” as a reference, the transaction price of this painting at that time was equivalent to RMB3 billion, which was still the price six or seven years ago.
By now, 4 billion is possible.
The price of the original work of “Lanting Preface” will not be cheaper than it, conservatively estimated, at least 45 to 5 billion.
With such a calculation, Lin Xiao discovered a tragic fact.
Even if he did sell everything he had, he wouldn’t be able to afford it.
It’s a sad thing.
Lin Xiao asked, “Is there anything to fancy here?” ”
Zhao Yiming shook his head: “I haven’t had time to see it yet.” ”
“Then you go and see, if you can’t see it, look for me.”
“Hmm.”
“I’ll go around there.”
Lin Xiao saw Ma Weidu, and he was chatting with several people.
After he left, Pan Jun said, “Why is Teacher Lin so nice to you all of a sudden?” ”
“He owes me favors.”
“How did you do it?”
“You guess.”
Zhao Yiming was disappointed in his heart and found his father, who was looking at things.
“Dad, are you still going to London?”
“Go.”
“Do you want Lin Xiao to accompany you?”
“You talked to him?”
“Hmm.”
“What did he say?”
“He didn’t say, but if I asked him to go, he would go.”
Zhao Bihui pondered for a moment and said, “Let’s talk about it.” ”
It’s just such a favor, he doesn’t want to use it casually.
If you want to use it, you have to use it on the blade.
That “Orchid Pavilion Preface”, there is no need to ask Lin Xiao to come over.
Even if Lin Xiao identified that thing as real?
Can you afford it yourself?
As for the other things at auction, they are all similar.
At the auction at the headquarters in London, there will be no bargains.
This favor is best used in picking up leaks.
If you can’t pick up leaks, there’s no point.
“Teacher Ma.”
“Xiao Lin is here.”
Ma Weidu introduced the two sides to each other: “This is Lin Xiao, Mr. Lin.” ”
“This is Qi Dong of the petty official auction house.”
“Hello, Mr. Lin.”
The two shook hands, and Qi Dong said, “Is Mr. Lin free these days?” Our auction house has collected a batch of good things and would like to ask you to help identify them. ”
Lin Xiao understood, this is to invite himself to stand on the platform.
The auction industry is famous for the major international auction houses, or the local Guardian, or focus on a category, which is particularly famous in a certain category.
For example, Rong Baozhai focuses on calligraphy and painting.
In addition to these, there are many small auctions, which are small in scale and similar to those that are leaked.
A collection is a few thousand pieces low, and tens of thousands of dollars are more expensive.
Occasionally a thing of hundreds of thousands is big news.
This kind of small auction house may hold one or two auctions throughout the year.
No way, if there is really a good thing, it must be willing to cooperate with the big auction house.
The collections they collect are either not understood by the auction house, or the big auction houses are unwilling to ask for it.
For this reason, the quality of customers participating in small auction houses is not high, so even if they can occasionally get some good things, they are prone to the embarrassing situation of streaming auctions.
Lin Xiao shook his head and said, “Sorry, Qi Dong, I’m not an expert. ”
Qi Dong was stunned, he forgot about this stubble.
Yes, Lin Xiao is not an expert!
He didn’t have a certificate!
According to the law, he can give a private appraisal, such as Ma Weidu has something unsure, and can pay Lin Xiao to help with the appraisal.
But he could not give an appraisal to the auction house.
Because he didn’t have a certificate.
Really identified, no one reported it, forget it, someone reported, a report is a quasi, Lin Xiao will be fined.
Ma Weidu was also stunned for a moment, he forgot that Lin Xiao was a leak.
Qi Dong looked regretful: “Didn’t Mr. Lin consider taking a certificate?” ”
“Will go when I have time.”
“Then I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate in the future.”
“Hmm.”
“Is Mr. Lin interested in coming to our auction for a while?”
Is this pulling to identify, just pull to buy something?
A wishful thinking.
Lin Xiao smiled and said, “Okay, if you have time, go over and take a look.” ”
This is not a polite statement, there are not many rich people willing to go to small auctions, but if you are lucky, you can still come across good things.
After chatting a few words, Lin Xiao left and walked around by himself.
Guardian preview, mainly porcelain.
Among the porcelain, the Qing Dynasty porcelain is the most, and there are also some Ming Dynasty porcelain.
More than a hundred pieces of porcelain, more than a dozen paintings and calligraphy, scattered jade, and some furniture.
Lin Xiao stood in front of a calligraphy painting, this is Qi Baishi’s painting, the starting price is 9 million.
Fake.
Lin Xiao went to look at other calligraphy and paintings, a total of 14 paintings, 9 fake paintings.
A few of them cannot be said to be fake, they belong to copying and have certain value.
However, the copying painting is auctioned at the reserve price of the real painting, and whoever buys it is unjust.
“What to see?”
Ma Weidu walked over and followed his gaze: “Qi Baishi’s painting hehe.” ”
Lin Xiao asked, “Teacher Ma saw it so quickly?” ”
“No need to look.”
Ma Weidu said, “Qi Baishi has painted more than 30,000 paintings in his lifetime, but guess how many paintings have been sold by all the auction houses in the world combined?” ”
“How much?”
“More than 200,000.”
Ma Weidu looked at the painting and shook his head: “The auction house recruits employees and experts for antiques, and the standard is still as low as ever. ”
Lin Xiao felt the same way: “It’s quite low. ”
Ma Weidu said, “Do you know the process of collecting collections by auction houses?” ”
“Teacher Ma said.”
“There are generally two kinds, the first one, the customer takes the initiative to send it to the door, and the large-scale auction is now famous, and eight out of ten pieces come like this.”
“Second, the collectors of the auction house go to the countryside to collect it, or hold appraisal meetings everywhere.”
“You know, right?”
“I don’t know.”
“It’s similar to the audition that Li Lei made, but there is an essential difference.”
“Li Lei’s audition is free, and the appraisal of the auction house will charge money, and the appraisal of a collection is three or four hundred.”
“That’s not expensive.”
“Simply saying that appraisal is certainly not expensive, but the experts of the auction house, and the real experts are not a species.”
“What do you say?”
“You also went to the audition for two days, Zhang Haiyang, you saw the process of their identification, right? How are they identified? People show them things, and if they are fake, they will tell them why they are fake and what is the difference between them and the real thing. ”
“Isn’t that how they are identified?”
Ma Weidu shook his head: “Experts in the auction house, take a look, fake, don’t say anything else.” In fact, it is not that it is not said, it is that the level is too low to say one. ”
Lin Xiao was shocked: “Can this be an expert?” ”
“So I said, the experts in the auction house and the experts outside are not a species. The experts of the auction house can only make money from the auction house, and out of the auction house, at their level, they can’t mix at all. ”
“If you look at Li Shinan, there are more channels for people to generate income, either to participate in the show, or to serve buyers, or to be invited by some archaeological teams to help identify things that have just been unearthed. Or, in some universities, I go to give a lecture occasionally. ”
“When you are free one day, you can still go to the antique street, and if you are lucky, you may be able to pick up a leak.”
“You asked the auction house experts to try it? No show wants them at all. ”
“In a word, experts who can’t get mixed will talk about patting and reading.”
Lin Xiao asked: “I remember that President Wei had a good relationship with some experts, and asked them to identify some things. ”
“President Wei? Oh, you said that Wei President in Jinling? ”
“Hmm.”
“That’s normal.”
Ma Weidu said: “Didn’t I just tell you about the process of auction houses collecting items, the appraisal meeting is to generate income for those experts on the one hand, and collect on the other hand.” However, there are relatively few good things that can be encountered in this situation, and sometimes those experts may not be able to see it. ”
“So the main thing is that the customer takes the initiative to send things over, and the things sent over are also divided into situations.”
“In the first case, the auction house’s collector appraises, thinks it’s real, and stays. Price according to the real and wait for the auction. ”
“The second is that the things sent by the customer have been identified and have expert appraisal certificates, which are the favorite of the auction house, and even the step of appraisal is omitted. And things with certificates are very popular at auctions. ”
“The third is that the customer requests the auction house for appraisal, and generally requires appraisal, the auction house’s commission ratio is much higher.”
“And the people who do the appraisal are all experts in the auction house.”
“I said that these experts are of average level, and they identify and will not give clear identification results. Basically, it is to give an appraisal technique such as ‘in line with the characteristics of the xx era, in line with the x aspect’. ”
“In short, the scope of the appraisal is very flexible, whether it is true or false, you can’t fault it.”
Ma Weidu handed him the atlas in his hand: “If you take a closer look at the introduction of these auction items, all the words ‘auction house appraisal’ are identified by the auction house’s collectors. If it is an ‘expert appraisal’, it is an expert in the auction house. If it comes with its own appraisal certificate, it will also be reflected. ”
Lin Xiao asked, “Why not invite famous experts?” The auction house is not bad for money, right? ”
Ma Weidu said, “Didn’t you just ask, did President Wei cooperate with some experts?” ”
“Hmm.”
“That’s a different story.”
Ma Weidu said, “You know, almost no experts outside will take the initiative to contact the auction house. Only the auction house takes the initiative to contact the outside experts, and there is only one reason why this happens, and that is to produce the baby! ”
“This treasure is worth at least tens of millions, or even tens of millions of dollars, and the experts of the auction house are not sure, at this time the auction house will go to the outside experts to cooperate and ask them to help with the appraisal.”
“But not all experts are willing to take this job, unless it is something that is 100% certain, as long as there is something wrong, they will not issue an appraisal certificate.” Unless the auction house gives more, it just happens that some experts’ ethical bottom line is more flexible. ”
Lin Xiao understood in seconds, but he was puzzled: “The auction house is not bad money, right?” It is better to do this than to sign some competent experts directly. ”
Ma Weidu smiled and said, “Isn’t this thankless? ”
“Powerful experts, don’t you lack this way to make money? Besides, why should the auction house please? ”
“To put it bluntly, an auction house is an intermediary, a platform that provides transactions between buyers and sellers.”
“Why do you have to identify something as true and fake? If you do this, few auction houses in the world will survive to this day. ”
“You have to know that the number of antiques in the world is limited. Since it is limited, there is always a day when it sells out. Are all so professional, how can the auction house survive1? ”
“Let’s just say this painting.”
Ma Weidu pointed to the painting of Qi Baishi in front of him: “You said that if it is all true and false, can there still be this painting here today?” ”
“So, if the seller wants to sell something, they are responsible for the auction, and they can give a general appraisal opinion.”
“As for whether it is fake or not, they are not responsible.”
“Anyway, they didn’t say from beginning to end that what they sold must be true”
“And every auction will be preceded by a preview exhibition, which is to give you time to determine the authenticity in advance.”
“You can ask an expert to come over yourself, and if you are sure of your ability, then see for yourself.”
“I think it’s true, wait until the auction starts.” If you think it’s fake, don’t touch it. ”
Lin Xiao snorted, of course he knew the nature of the auction, but after Ma Weidu said so, he had a deeper understanding.
To put it simply, the auction is a larger antique street.
“By the way, I just heard Zhao Bihui say that there will be an auction in London, it seems that there is a real work of the “Orchid Pavilion Preface”, it is estimated that the hype will begin in the next two days, and there will definitely be a preview at that time, do you want to go and see it?”
“Not going.”
Lin Xiao shook his head: “Even if it’s a genuine work, I can’t afford it.” ”
Ma Weidu snorted: “Don’t talk about you, I’m struggling.” I just don’t know if that thing is real or not. ”
If it is true, the transaction price of this “Orchid Pavilion Preface” can probably reach a terrifying height that is difficult for even later generations to reach.
Ma Weidu changed the topic: “Did you get the chicken cup?” ”
“Got it.”
“President Sun was willing to give it to you, which is quite unexpected.”
“He didn’t show up.”
“What do you mean?”
Lin Xiao roughly said about this morning’s events, and after listening, Ma Weidu said: “You are really prescient, it’s good that the things are placed in the Forbidden City, otherwise you may not be able to get them.” ”
“Yes, I really hope that there are more philanthropists like Mr. Sun in the world.”
A few more, what are you thinking.
“By the way, Rong Baozhai is going to clear the warehouse in the past two days, do you want to go over and take a look?” This is a good opportunity to pick up leaks. ”