The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

A complete set of 108 court beads, or the top-class old pit glass imperial green jade, each is almost the same size, "Buddha Head Pagoda", "Back Cloud", "Large Pendant Angle", and "Small Pendant Angle" are not lacking. In addition, the ribbon is bright yellow, and the three strings of "commemorative", two strings on the right and one on the left, are for women's wear.

The real masters of such dynasty beads can only be: Yehenala clan, Empress Dowager Kang Yizhao Yu Zhuang Chengshou respectfully present Empress Dowager Chongxi!

In addition, I heard that Nicole was saying that the Yuan holder of the beads also brought out two funny gem watermelons. The source of this string of Laokeng emperor green jade beads should be the East Tomb of Botuoyu Ding, and the old Buddha Cixi The underground palace!

Do you dare to let children wear such an object?

I crush you to death!

"The guy who is engaged in stocks is very funny. He took out two big watermelons made from whole large gemstones for appreciation, saying that they were traded from a friend..."

As soon as Nicole said, Zhang Nan understood: Those are two gem watermelons, and this dish of Chaozhu is a joke made by a financial investment upstart.

Oh, it's a facade.

That salon is a place where the top wealthy people in New York communicate with each other and display jewellery. Modern and old jewellery can be exchanged, and it will last for two days.

The things are there, you can buy the ones you like, as for Nicole, of course, the high-end jewelry of "Xingchen Group".

The owner doesn't have to stay in the salon all the time. There are salon organizers acting as middlemen there.

"Can't open it at night? Leave those two watermelons!"

Zhang Nan is not so anxious sometimes!

Nicole's cell phone was just aside, and she called immediately.

"Madeleine, this is Nicole. Are the two big watermelons still there?...Alright, keep them, I'll come over later, I'm a little interested in my family."

Hanging up the phone, "It's still there, and the organizer will suspend the communication with Big Watermelon"

Needless to say, after the dinner was postponed, I brought a group of bodyguards, plus a group of curious women and girls, and swarmed towards New York City.

Anyway, people who didn't have an invitation letter in that salon couldn't get in at all, and even Adjani who wanted to go to the event would go with it. It was quite lively.

After telling the story of the Chinese Qing Dynasty dynasty pearl and the Dongling thief Sun Dianying who sacked Qianlong Yuling and Cixi Putuoyu Dongling Dongling in the car, everyone understood why Zhang Nan was in such a hurry, and why children could not wear it.

The treasure stolen from the coffin of the Empress Dowager, and Zhang Nan said that when the coffin was opened, the corpse did not rot, resembling a zombie. The Chao beads were either hung on the neck of the corpse or put aside. It was terrifying to Nicole and others to think about it!

For Zhang Nan, the horror is not enough, it is the object with the luck of the Chinese emperor's family taken out of the coffin, don't put it on the body if you don't hang it on your body.

Excluding foreign ones, it doesn’t matter what Pharaoh’s dagger, Hitler’s pistol, or Napoleon’s watch. One is that the West does not pay attention to this, and the other is that some are not taken out of the grave. The third is that Nan is unfamiliar with Western superstitions.

Taizuye said it well, hitting everything!

Laozi believed in the Sanqing Tianzun and the Tathagata Buddha who lived in China, and he was not very familiar with the outsiders.

Roaring to Fifth Avenue where the salon is located, Zhang Nan entered the salon. Before the 40-something organizer came forward to receive him, Zhang Nan swept around and saw two big watermelons on a table. .

Good recognition!

I stepped forward and saw two small tags on the top: tourmaline watermelon, a pair of 500,000 US dollars, and a single one was 300,000 US dollars.

Tourmaline, a mid-range gem, is worth this price in the eyes of Americans.

Handwritten on the other label: Booked.

"Nicole, how much did the beads cost?"

"$500,000, the ruby ​​above is quite expensive."

I forgot to ask just now.

Rubies are expensive?

It's quite expensive!

But compared with Empress Dowager Cixi’s beloved Laokeng glass imperial green beads...

The average ruby ​​is really no match!

I met with Ms. Madeleine, and the other party welcomed everyone. Although she could see that Adjani's eyes were slightly different, they were treated equally and courteously.

The quality is very high and can make everyone feel like a spring breeze.

After the polite look at the watermelon-the size of an ordinary watermelon, round and cute.

There was originally a light on, and the skin of the melon was green and shiny, with dark green stripes; through the light, the black melon seeds and red melon flesh could be faintly seen in the melon, and it was abnormally round to the touch.

Roundness is not only the reason for polishing. Polishing alone can't throw away this kind of smooth feel, and there is also the precipitation of years.

Signaling to turn off the light on the table, Zhang Nan used the flashlight he carried to look at the internal structure of the big watermelon, and then used his magnifying glass to view the body and the connection part of the melon.

Very good, you can slightly see the traces of the grinding wheel-not a traditional grinding wheel, but a mechanical grinding wheel.

Hyundai?

No, a small amount of modern diamond wheels entered China a hundred years ago, but they were used less. Although the gear prints on the two big watermelons are parallel diamond wheel prints, they are not as "connected" as the current grinding wheel prints. They are parallel and a bit crooked at the same time, and the strength is not "uniform on one line", with a slight point. The severity is different.

Zhang Nan has seen such traces several times in his life. They are all old jade artifacts from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The reason for this is that the grinding wheels are imported, but no stable electric or steam power is used. Instead, they use traditional Chinese foot pedals. Roulette

The surface of the two watermelons still has the luster formed by being touched by people for at least several decades, plus the almost invisible grinding wheel marks at Guadi. Needless to say, these two watermelons are objects from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

If a tourmaline of this level is added, it will be made into two watermelons, 100% are the two at the feet of Cixi in the coffin-there is another saying that there are 4 emerald watermelons in Cixi’s coffin and two white-skinned yellow seeds. Pink flesh, two yellow flesh with green skin and white seeds, worth 6 million taels of silver!

Regardless of whether there are one or two in the coffin, at least these two cannot be wrong!

Xiang Weirong saw Zhang Nan straight up and asked in dialect: "The emerald watermelon of Empress Dowager Cixi? How does it say tourmaline?"

Xiang Nan smiled and said: "The rumor is that it is emerald watermelon, but it should be tourmaline. If the color of watermelon can be made up in the whole jadeite material, there will be no one that can meet the requirements in the seven or eighty years after the Qing Dynasty. The worst of them never appeared.

Even if there were, the old witch in Cixi couldn't like two watermelons in shit. I always thought that the tourmaline watermelon should be put in the coffin. Tourmalines have many colors, like this green plus red, green at the periphery and red at the center originally looked like a watermelon, but now it is called watermelon tourmaline.

There is a record in the "Notes of Ai Yuexuan" written by Li Lianying's nephew: When the Empress Dowager Cixi was buried, there was one emerald watermelon on the left and right sides of her feet. The green skin, red flesh, white seeds, and black silk were worth about 2.2 million taels of silver.

The raw materials for this jade watermelon have been divergent. Now many people like me think it should be the top two-color combination tourmaline originally imported from the United States, that is, the watermelon tourmaline with green skin and red flesh..."

Speaking and patted two big watermelons, "Now it is certain that it is tourmaline!"

The origins of Chinese tourmaline are Keketuohai in the Altay region, Fugong, Yuanyang, Gongshan, Baoshan and other places in Yunnan Province, and Jiaoligetai in the Urad Middle Banner of Inner Mongolia.

Many people know that the tourmaline produced in Brazil is the best quality tourmaline in the world, but even most Americans do not know that the state of California was once the main source of top-quality tourmaline!

Moreover, the tourmaline mineral veins mined in the United States a few decades ago have been weathered, and a large number of lepidolite albite pegmatites in the veins have been weathered into mud.

There are basically no rocks in the veins, so the original method of mining tourmaline deposits in the United States was mainly to dig soil, which is easier to mine tourmaline than in other producing areas.

But in the past 70 years, the tourmaline mine in the United States has not been mined at all, and the Americans themselves have almost forgotten that California has the world's top tourmaline mine!

The reason for this is the Empress Dowager Cixi!

The tourmaline mines in California are almost supported by the Queen Mother Galeries Lafayette alone, and the effect is on the upside and downside. The preference of Cixi drove the love of tourmalines by the upper class in China in the late Qing Dynasty, and most of the high-quality tourmalines were imported from the United States.

Who makes Cixi's love for tourmaline no less than jade! In China, the term "tourmaline" first appeared in the Qing Dynasty. During the reign of Cixi, the quantity and quality of tourmalines used by the Qing imperial family reached the peak of China's history!

According to the tourmaline trade records of the Natural History Museum of San Diego, the second year after the Gengzi Incident, that is, during the seven years from 1902 to 1908, the Empress Dowager Cixi asked the palace office to purchase ten in the United States almost every year. There are more than tons of tourmalines, of which pink tourmalines are the main ones.

By the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, the total purchase of tourmalines by the Manchu Qing government in the United States had reached 120 tons!

This is still the amount purchased by the court. As for officials and wealthy businessmen who import through compradors, it is not easy to estimate. The estimated amount has been changed, but the best is basically in the hands of the royal family.

Later, due to the death of our Qing Dynasty, the tourmaline of the Ibaraya Mine in California, the United States lost the most important Chinese market. The tourmaline was unsalable, and the mine was forced to close.

Zhang Nan would remember that it was not until the beginning of the 21st century that the tourmaline mine in California was redeveloped.

You can take it away after you sign, so you don’t have to worry about paying for the goods with one hand. The two large watermelons are also stored in a wooden box each, which can be carried away.

Each weighs more than 20 kilograms, and it is not easy to hold it if the strength is weak.

This is not a problem. The giant Mark Callaway and Thomas Jacobs carried a box each, and they didn't feel the weight of the injury.

It’s not a problem to mention two by one person, but then you can’t get a gun~www.readwn.com~Please ask Madelyn to contact the original owner of the big watermelon tomorrow, and ask if there are any similar characteristic jewelry, just say I am more interested here.

There is no need to set up a set, everyone has an identity and is willing to sell and buy.

What if there is a baby and I don’t want to sell it?

Besides, depending on what it is, this association intends to let the "united forces" investigate the other party's foundation.

In the car, Zhang Nan opened the box and continued to look at the big watermelon.

Seeing this virtue, Adjani beside her smiled and said, "Are you going to sleep in a hug?"

"Don't be funny, don't dare to see the stuff in the coffin, I'm afraid I will meet the Queen Mother Lafayette in my dream."

It's no joke, but Nicole, who was sitting across from him, asked if the object she obtained by chance this time was a top-notch baby.

"Two watermelons... hehe, priceless, I can't say, that plate of emerald pearls is at least thirty to fifty million U.S. dollars."