Before coming, Li Du did his homework.

According to his understanding, the most precious sea-Nan Huanghuali and Vietnam Huanghuali resources, the most precious ones among the mahogany, are almost exhausted, and are basically in a state of price but no market.

Small-leafed red sandalwood supplies about 5,000 tons per year, and high-quality old materials with a length of more than 2 meters can be sold for US$250,000 to US$400,000 per ton.

This price is still the raw material price. If it is made into furniture after being carved and polished, the price will be even more amazing.

The huge profit margin has attracted a large number of fakes to enter this industry. For example, many illegal merchants use African Zambian blood sandalwood to pretend to be small-leafed rosewood, and many people use Mexican micro-concave yellow sandalwood and micro-concave yellow sandalwood to color and paint and then counterfeit Laos red rosewood.

Li Du suspected that the furniture was fake mahogany. The merchant held an auction here to deceive some customers, but after making a fortune, he ran away.

This best solves why merchants leave so much ‘rabbish’ furniture. If they were real, Li Du didn’t believe that Trump would forget to take them away.

Also, he noticed what Rick said at the bar last night, and the other party said, "Look at whether you can still be so arrogant after the auction is over."

This passage can be interpreted as that Rick and his son will have great potential at the auction, so that they cannot buy the warehouse. It can also be interpreted as that the other party knows that there are traps at this auction and wants to deal with them!

Hans searched the Internet and shook his head and said, "There are not many questions, I found it. Here is a post related to the Trump Redwood Museum..."

Li Du asked: "Is it a news report?"

"No, someone posted a complaint, saying that he bought mahogany furniture, and then was ridiculed by Chinese friends that he bought fakes. He also said that multiple forums and news networks had dark collusion with the Trump Mahogany Hall, and deleted a large number of posts questioning the mahogany Hall." Hans said.

Li Du still frowned. He took out a small book he had prepared before the incident, "The Past and Present of Asian Redwoods".

Hans asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Du said: "I looked through the crack in the door and saw that there was mahogany furniture inside, but I used family secret techniques to deduce that these warehouses were of no value."

Hans said disappointedly: "None of them are worth?"

Li Du didn't say anything to death, he said vaguely: "No, I can't see clearly. Maybe I've read it wrong, I have to take a closer look."

He did start to look carefully. Little Feizhu flew on the mahogany furniture and checked the situation up close according to the information book.

The reason why mahogany furniture is loved by the world's rich and nobles is first of all because it has a beautiful appearance and has natural colors such as purple, yellow, red, red or crimson.

In addition, the wood grain of mahogany is simple and beautiful, elegant and fresh, and even after painting, the wood grain is still clearly visible.

Once the fake mahogany products are painted, they will make the color thicker and lack spiritual energy, and there is no wood grain texture to find.

But Li Du couldn't see this. The furniture inside was purple-red and painted and waxed, so he was not a mahogany expert and dared not make a conclusion from the outside.

In fact, there is another good way to identify mahogany, that is, to measure the density. The density of mahogany is the largest among wood, and even hardwood cannot match it.

However, Li Du couldn't get in touch with these furniture, let alone measure the density.

He looked down and saw that among the mahogany fraud, there was a very common method of fraud called structural fraud.

Normally, when making mortise and tenon structures, mahogany furniture uses wooden tenons of the same material. The tenons and grooves are very particular, and must be of the right size.

When the guys connect mortise and tenon, they will use iron nails or glue, which will make it easier to connect the furniture and increase the durability of the furniture.

For normal mahogany furniture, the use of iron nails and tax connections can also increase the durability of the architecture.

But they cannot be used because mahogany furniture is easily oxidized and corroded by iron nails, and glue has stronger ability to corrode mahogany. Perhaps the durability can be increased, but the life of mahogany will be greatly reduced.

Li Du slapped his forehead, why did he forget this? Wouldn't it be better to let the little flying insect penetrate the furniture?

The little flying insect crawled into the tabletop and moved towards the table leg.

There are no iron nails inside the table, but there is a thick layer of milky white crystals where the legs and the tabletop are connected, which is a trace of glue.

Seeing this, he cursed in his heart, "It's very unlucky, he might have encountered a fake mahogany."

But he was not very disappointed. Even if it was real mahogany furniture, they couldn't find any gaps. The furniture was placed openly outside and anyone could see it.

In addition to glue at the connection, Li Du found that there were also traces of glue on the surface of the tabletop and the table legs, and the texture of the wood on the surface was different from the interior.

He checked the information book and saw that there was indeed such a method of fraud, which was called "skin-skin-falsing".

Fake leather fraud is to first make furniture with valuable hardwood, and then paste a layer of mahogany boards on the outside. After being closely bonded, the fraud is not visible from the outside.

Needless to say, these furniture are all fakes.

Li Du asked Xiao Feichuan to get into the chair and take a look. In the same situation, all the furniture in the warehouse was fake.

This discovery made him very depressed, and it seemed that this auction would be back in vain again.

However, he was careful and endured the impatience to arrange for Xiao Feizeng to enter the second warehouse to check out the few small beds and sofas inside.

The furniture in the second warehouse is purple-black. From the outside, it looks very similar to red sandalwood texture, thick, exquisite and atmospheric.

Li Du felt that even if these things are fake, it would be nice if they can be obtained at a low price. At least it is much better than an ordinary pine bed.

The little flying insect flew into a bed, and no traces of glue were found throughout the process, nor were there any fake skins. The material was the same from beginning to end!

This discovery made Li Du excited. Could it be that the mahogany furniture in the Trun Redwood Museum is true or false? This time he met the real one?

However, what puzzled him was that the appearance of these beds and sofas was different from the color of the wood inside, with whiter outside and blacker inside.

He checked the information book and saw another method of fraud, called craft fraud.

This method of fraud is to bleach some low-priced wood into similar-looking mahogany through bleaching, which is a very high-end method of fraud.

You should know that the current national standard stipulates that there are 33 types of wood in mahogany furniture in five genera and eight categories, and mahogany refers to these 33 types of wood.

Nature is magical, with many kinds of woods that look similar in appearance, but their properties are different.

Some woods look like mahogany, but do not have the durability of mahogany, and some also have the durability of mahogany, but do not have the natural fragrance of mahogany.

In short, the 33 kinds of mahogany are unique, while imitation mahogany woods are diverse.

After a while of checking, Li Du vaguely guessed that the bed and sofa in the warehouse were made of a kind of wood called "Iron Sword Wood". This wood is often used to imitate small-leaf red sandalwood after bleaching.

The situation in the third warehouse is similar to that in the second warehouse, and it is also a fraudulent process. The furniture inside is all brown-red, like a precious rosewood material.
Chapter completed!