When he walked into the room and turned left, Hu Tu saw a six-foot-long log table in the glass door. A man sat opposite the table. He was the appraiser here, named Sun Qiang. There was an empty chair on the left, and there was a half-full water cup in front of the empty chair. Obviously there should be another person there. This is the seat of a senior, whose name is Li Dehou, who is almost sixty years old this year.

There was a door behind the two chairs. Hu Tu saw that the door was shaking a little and guessed that someone had gone out there.

"Please sit down." Sun Qiang stretched out his hand and pointed at the bench in front of him, and asked politely and directly, "Have you brought the things?"

"Take it." Hu Tu sat down, took out a newly bought box from his bag, took out all the decorations and gold and silver ingots inside, "That's all."

Sun Qiang didn't rush to get started, glanced at him and asked, "Where did this come from?"

"I bought it from Antique Street. I asked my friend and said it was from the Ming Dynasty." Hu Tu missed the origin of the items.

"Do you have relevant documents?" Sun Qiang asked without any hesitation. As an appraiser, he has his own set of procedures, so he is so familiar with it.

"No." Hu Tu told the truth. He asked Mr. Chen, knowing that these people who have not obtained certificates can participate in the auction. The things are real, but not particularly precious national treasures. These documents are all done by a process and the auction office can solve them. Otherwise, many flat-headed bosses will take the treasures to auction, but they don't have any certificates. Do the auction office refuse them all?

"I'll take a look at the things first." Sun Qiang held a magnifying glass, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "The things are old, and I can be sure that they are from the Ming Dynasty. As for whether these decorations are from the Ming Dynasty, I need to check further." What he said was to leave Li Dehou to make the final decision.

Hu Tu knew about this result before, so he nodded and said, "Then do I want to wait here?"

Naturally, Sun Qiang would not let customers sit and wait, which would not only waste customers' time, but also his own time. He said: "These decorations can be kept first. Let's estimate the price of gold and silver ingots and set a base price." Then he told the auction of these items and gave a recommended base price, which was 10% lower than that of his selling in the market, and asked: "I wonder if you can accept this base price?"

"It's a bit low." Hu Tu made a brief calculation. If he sold this way, it would be a bit of a loss. But considering that the auction would raise the price, it was OK. The key was whether the customers would raise the price when they came to the auction house. However, since he came here, it was still necessary to maintain the minimum trust. After considering it briefly, he said, "Let's just do it, being bought at the bottom price is the worst result, and it is not unacceptable."

"Okay, that's it." Sun Qiang took out a piece of paper and started writing it. Hu Tu looked at it secretly, basically what he had just discussed.

At this time, Li Dehou walked in from the door behind Sun Qiang. His head was gray, he wore reading glasses, and a dark Tang suit. After sitting down, he glanced at the items in front of him and asked, "All of them have been identified?"

Sun Qiang had already stopped writing and replied respectfully: "Teacher Li, I can't get these decorations."

Li Dehou looked carefully for a while and said, "These decorations are all old. Moreover, they are complex in craftsmanship and exquisite in shape. They should be used by women from wealthy families in the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, because some of the decoration parts on it have been corroded and their value has been greatly reduced, it is difficult to determine the specific age, and auction is also difficult. Fortunately, these pieces can be sold in a set, with the initial estimate ranging from 10 to 20,000 yuan. I suggest the lowest price is below 10,000 yuan."

Hu Tu was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that such a professional place could not be sure of the specific age of these decorations. But he carefully considered the reasons he said, which made sense. There was only a little gold and dots of jade left on these decorations. It was almost impossible to conclude that this was something from the Ming Dynasty based on these decorations.

"Okay, the minimum price is 10,000 yuan." Hu Tu didn't care anymore, but he added, "However, I bought these decorations with these gold and silver ingots. I wonder if I can confirm it as the Ming Dynasty based on this?"

He asked a very amateur question. If this can be divided into different generations, then just find two things to say they were dug up together, one is an antique and the other is an antique? In this way, many scams can easily be derived.

"No." Li Dehou denied it directly, "but these words can be added to the item introduction. As for whether others believe it or not, then I will say it."

He guessed that no one would believe this, but when someone bought these things, he would spread this sentence as a key point. After all, everyone wanted to say that the things they bought were valuable. So with this introduction, these things would be easier to sell and the price would be appropriately higher.

Of course, not all the items in their auction house will add such words, after all, what they say must be responsible. The reason why he agreed to add this is because he thought it is very likely, otherwise no matter how sincere Hu Tu said it, he would not agree.

Next, I went upstairs to sign the agreement to complete the procedures. The manager was received. His office was very clean. Obviously, he had not received anyone else just now. The "Fan Jin, who passed the imperial examination" should have been received by other managers.

Because Hutu’s procedures are incomplete, we need to pay an extra 80 yuan for the completion procedures. After paying this part of the fee, the manager said: “You must have some understanding of the regulations of our auction office. If the auction is not completed, we will not charge the auction fee. After the auction is successful, we will charge an 8% handling fee, of which 3% is taxed.”

Even rare antiques are difficult to guarantee that they will not fail to sell. As a powerful auction house, they will naturally have their countermeasures to promise such generous conditions.

Once there are collections that no one cares about, and they like them and the lowest price is not too high, they will find someone to buy them at a very cost-effective price. In this way, they can make a lot of money by buying the lowest price and adding the discount on the handling fee.

Of course, not doing much of this kind of thing. If you do it too clearly, you will have a bad reputation. It is enough to earn back the generous conditions they promised, so that others will not say anything if they know it.

Hu Tu agreed with the manager and said, "But I have a request, I want to be anonymous. These things are temporarily kept by you. Just transfer the money to my account after the filming. If the filming fails, I will pick it up again."

The auction house itself has the obligation to keep it confidential, and this requirement is completely reasonable, so the manager agreed directly. The two discussed some details and signed an agreement. The manager personally delivered Hu Tu to the door, showing great enthusiasm.

This was originally a procedure stipulated by the auction company, but the manager was very sincere, including his personal professionalism and satisfaction with the agreement just signed. After all, someone as easy to talk to as Hu Tu, and he didn't meet one in a month or two. Didn't the gentleman holding his schoolbag go downstairs before?

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Chapter completed!