Chapter 0403: Strange Stone Auction
Two days later, the strange stone auction was auctioned at Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong as scheduled. On the morning of that day, Chu Nan, Zhang Lao and Liu Fen came to Sotheby's auction in the organizer's car.
In fact, Chu Nan is a little familiar with this auction, because many antiques in China, and even the twelve zodiac avatars that were stolen and sold in the Old Summer Palace, are underway here.
Of course, this only means that this auction is thinking from the perspective of capital, as long as you have money to make money, it’s enough.
When Chu Nan and Zhang Lao came to Sotheby's auction, because the two precious stones belonged to Chu Nan himself, Sotheby's auction prepared a VIP room for Chu Nan and the other two. When you enter that VIP room, you can see the auction downstairs.
Most of the items auctioned this time were privately collected strange stones and those at the exhibition, so it attracted people from all over the world to come in and participate in the auction.
Of course, not everyone can come in, but can only be carried out with a certain proportion of wealth. After all, there are not many seats in the auction. If everyone comes in, there will definitely be many people who don’t have seats.
The determination of a certain proportion of wealth is also to indicate that the individual has the ability to bid for strange stones.
Chu Nan, Mr. Zhang and Liu Fen sat in the seats in the VIP room. The tea and desserts delivered by the waiter at the auction can be said to be very good service and there is no need to feel bored at all.
On that album, detailed information about the strange stones to be auctioned this time are also printed. Which strange stone is more convenient for bidding.
For Chu Nan, I didn’t think anything was found because I watched it at Feng’s auction house several times.
And there may be more auctions like Mr. Zhang, so there will be nothing more.
"Old Zhang, I originally gave you those two strange stones as gifts, but now I'm putting them for auction,"
Chu Nan didn't know how to say it.
"Those two strange stones are too expensive, I dare not accept them, and I don't know what to do if I collect them."
For Mr. Zhang, his salary alone in his teaching is already good. In addition, he is an expert in the jade carving industry. He will have a lot of money if he carved a piece of jade carving work all year round. As for his collection in his study The prices of the strange stones are also not low.
Therefore, when Chu Nan gave him the two such precious strange stones, he naturally did not dare to accept them.
"Wait a moment, Mr. Zhang, see which strange stone you like, I'll take it back to you."
Since I dare not accept those two pieces, the others should be fine.
However, Mr. Zhang still smiled and said.
"Haha, no need,"
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By nine o'clock in the morning, other rich people, businessmen, and strange stone collectors who were going to bid for the auction came. When Chu Nan looked downstairs through the window of the VIP room, he found that all the seats on these two floors were full. Defeat people.
At 9:15 a.m., Chu Nan saw a middle-aged man dressed in a suit standing on the hosting stage, the other party was the host of Sotheby's auction where the auction was hosted.
"Gentlemen, ladies, good morning, this strange stone auction is about to begin. You can bid for the right strange stones,"
"Now, the first work in auction is the Huangshan strange stone pan scenery,"
From the day of the exhibition, Mr. Zhang explained in detail about the strange stones, Chu Nan knew that the processed stone crafts also belonged to the strange stones, but in terms of prices, there could be a big difference.
Now Chu Nan looked at the projector downstairs and saw a pine tree about thirty centimeters tall above, and a stone under the pine tree.
This is not much different from other ordinary sceneries, but the pine tree is fake, it is just a stone form, and may be a stone processed by hand.
It’s just that the stone comes from Huangshan Stone, so in terms of price, the auction price starts at 50,000 US dollars.
After the host explained the scene of the strange stone in Huangshan, the bidders below started to bid, and each increase started at 20,000 US dollars.
Of course, this little money is nothing to the rich, it just feels that it is valuable.
While Chu Nan was watching, Old Zhang next to him said.
"The highest price of this Yellowstone Stone Pan is only one million yuan. No matter how much it is, it may not be worth it."
As for how to judge, there is naturally a valuation in this regard, and Chu Nan definitely doesn't understand it.
So, when those below started bidding, some rich people or collectors felt that they were valuable and raised their signs and shouted.
“Hundred thousand dollars,”
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"Eighty thousand dollars,"
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“Two hundred thousand dollars,”
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When the price was called, the bidding stopped.
"Two hundred thousand dollars, the first time,"
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"Two hundred thousand dollars, the second time,"
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"Two hundred thousand dollars, third time,"
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When the host hit him, he had already confirmed that the first work was auctioned successfully.
“Congratulations to the successful bid on the 47th,”
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The following other strange stone auction items were all low to high. Chu Nan sat inside and felt drowsy, because most of the time it sounded like he heard the voices downstairs outside the window shouting. That's it.
Mr. Zhang could see that Chu Nan seemed not interested in these things and said nothing.
By the time the auction ended in the morning, it was not yet the two auction works of Chu Nan, which means that the prices of Chu Nan’s two works were not low and it would not be auctioned in the afternoon.
So, when Chu Nan and the other two came to the Sotheby's auction in the morning, they went out to the organizer's car and returned to the hotel for lunch. When the auction was about to be auctioned in the afternoon, the three of them came by by car.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Nan and Zhang Lao came to the VIP room at Sotheby's Auction.
When the auction started in the afternoon, the auction still included other works. Until after five o'clock in the afternoon, it was finally Chu Nan's second work's turn to the toad stone.
Although the name toad sounds a bit ugly, in fact, in many people, in addition to being too realistic, the toad stone is also considered a Feng Shui stone.
Feng Shui is generally known to Chinese people, and the richer people pay more attention to Feng Shui. Therefore, when they see the toad stone, they think it is better to buy it and collect it. As a Feng Shui stone, they all think it is better to buy it. good.
In addition, at the strange stone exhibition that day, Mr. Zhang briefly mentioned that many people have remembered it, and there are explanations about the toad stone and the carp stone in some Hong Kong newspapers.
Chapter completed!