MTL - Treasure Hunt America-Chapter 48 Money can't buy a good heart
Ask for collection, ask for recommendation!
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Although Rick's words were not very polite, Lilian was not angry, especially after seeing the three lamps on the table.
She has a few clients, and she really likes stuff like this.
And her gallery can develop to today, it is also relying on this Tiffany lamp.
Speaking of which, she and Tiffany's lamps are really related. That was more than 20 years ago. At that time, she was still working in a large financial institution in Manhattan, but from 9 to 5 in the morning, she could earn more than 20 yuan every year. 10,000 US dollars, it has to be in a good situation, who made her the bottom of the company?
The fixed annual salary is only tens of thousands of yuan each year, and the rest is to wait for the company to pay dividends at the end of the year.
At that time, her life was not well-off. She had just divorced and had to raise her two children independently. In order to provide the best education for her two children, she was heartbroken.
Everything had to start when her father died of illness. At that time, her father ran a small antique shop. His only last wish was for her to pass on the antique shop.
So she gritted her teeth and took over her father's class, but she spent half a year sitting in the air, until one day a client fell in love with a Tiffany lamp that her father had bought a few years ago, and her business did not go away after that. on track.
It was also the successful experience of Tiffany table lamps that made her specialize in the origin and history of a Tiffany table lamp in the days to come, as well as collectors' preferences for table lamps and so on.
Later, she just caught up with Tiffany's stained glass art. At the stage of the revival of the antique market, she is a smart woman, not greedy for perfection, but specializing in Tiffany's table lamps. There are dozens of Tiffany lamps that have been collected and sold.
This experience has also earned her the title of Tiffany lamp expert, and has developed the small antique shop left by her father into one of the most famous art galleries in Manhattan today.
Almost all players in the United States who like to collect Tiffany lamps know that if you want to collect a Tiffany lamp in good condition, then you'd better go to Lillian. Nekansky, because she is the only NO.1 in this circle.
"Well, let me take a good look at your babies..."
While muttering to herself, Lillian took out a tortoiseshell magnifying glass from the pearl-encrusted handbag she was carrying, and circled the lamps constantly.
"Oh! God! This is really good stuff, Rick, where did you get it? You can find the tortoiseshell peacock lamp? It's amazing..."
The first thing I saw was the tortoiseshell peacock lantern. There are records of this lantern, but there are only four of them. One of them is in the National Gallery of Art, and the other two are in the collection of big collectors, and they have been disappearing without any news. The fourth lamp of the show actually appeared here, which made Lilian, a self-proclaimed Tiffany lamp expert, not excited?
You must know that she has studied the Tiffany lamp for so many years, and she has seen this lamp several times, one of which is in the National Gallery of Art, and the other is in the home of a collector in the circle.
Now I can see the fourth one in Rick's small antique shop, which makes Lilian so excited that she can't even hold back the restraint of a lady who keeps it.
"Rick, any cigarettes? Give me one, I need to recover. I'm so excited..."
Even Jin Muchen didn't expect that Lilian would be so excited when she saw this lamp, even to the point of losing her temper.
Rick smiled slightly, took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer, and lit one for Lillian.
At this time, Lilian's spirit was all hit on this tortoise shell peacock lamp, and as for the other two lamps, she was not in the mood to look at it.
"Make a price, Rick, I want this lamp."
Without any hesitation, Lillian went straight to the topic, and there was a crispness in her words, and it was her crispness that allowed her to make such a breakthrough in Manhattan.
As an expert who has studied Tiffany lamps for a lifetime, if you don't have a decent collection of Tiffany lamps in your hands, how can you say the past.
In the past twenty years, she has sold many Tiffany lamps, but none of them can make her fall in love at first sight like this one today, and she cannot extricate herself from it!
This lamp can be said to be the pinnacle of all Tiffany lamps. It is definitely the best of the best. If you encounter it today, it must not be missed.
It was the first time for her to feel such a strong possessiveness at the sight of a lamp. It felt like the first time she saw her dream lover decades ago.
No matter how much it cost, she would not go back to this lamp, put it on her bedside, and let it accompany her day and night.
"One hundred and eighty thousand!"
Rick was not polite and directly quoted the price. When the price was quoted, he was expressionless, but Jin Muchen, who was standing not far behind them and pretending to be cleaning all the time, was a little dumbfounded.
Before, he had only seen Fang Bo's black belly, but he didn't expect this kind-hearted Rick to be even blacker than Fang Bo.
He said it himself, this tortoise shell peacock lantern, even if it is photographed, it can be shot at 1.4 million to 1.5 million, but he is facing Lillian, but he wants to shoot. 1.8 million.
This clearly shows that people are determined to win this lamp, so they are sitting on the ground and raising the price!
No wonder people say that antique dealers are the most black-hearted fellows among all businessmen. They are clearly the ones who are best at taking advantage of others. Money can't buy a good temperament, and regardless of market rules, they sit on the ground and raise prices.
"One hundred and sixty thousand, okay, I'll make the deal immediately!"
Rick's offer was very straightforward, and Lillian's counter-offer was equally straightforward, and he also gave a counter-offer that was almost impossible to refuse.
It's actually more than 100,000 yuan higher than Rick's estimated auction price, so there is no reason for Rick to refuse.
"Deal! Deal!"
Lillian didn't even blink her eyelids. To her, spending 1.6 million dollars was not much different from spending 160 yuan, not to mention that she could buy such a rare favorite!
She pressed the half of the cigarette directly into the ashtray, and then reached out to Rick and shook hands, and by this time she had regained her composure.
"Okay, next, let me look at the other two lights."
At this time, she completely recovered the true character of the strong woman who came in before, picked up the magnifying glass again, and watched carefully on the other two lamps.
This time, she first watched the peony table lamp, and looked at it very carefully, because as an expert, she knew that such a table lamp was one of the most popular Tiffany table lamps on the market.
And the style of this one is very special. There are four colors of stained glass, purple, yellow, and blue as the background color, and the gorgeous big red peony flower as the main color. Just looking at the color and composition, this The lamp is so pretty.
Looking at the quality of the lampshade glass and the brightness of the lampshade color, the preservation is almost the same as the one just produced. A table lamp that is more than 100 years old is actually preserved so perfectly, it seems that its original collector must be in maintenance. It took a lot of thought.
Looking at this lamp's ingenious imitation of the base of the Eiffel Tower, beautiful brass color, this is definitely a rare high-quality product.
If it wasn't for the tortoiseshell peacock lamp that she had collected before, she would like to keep this lamp by herself. As long as this lamp is taken out, it will definitely be very popular, because for all collectors who like to collect Tiffany table lamps, The elements they liked could not be more complete in this lamp.
Next, there is the dragonfly table lamp. Compared with the previous two lamps, this lamp is a bit dwarfed. Whether it is in terms of shape or quality, it is very ordinary.
Tiffany's most widely spread on the market is the dragonfly table lamp, and those dragonfly table lamps have different designs and shapes, which are much more beautiful than this one. The founder of the mountain.
Almost all the ideas of the dragonfly table lamps in later generations come from it, so this gives this table lamp a special meaning.
So the price of this lamp is definitely not low!
Lillian finished identifying the remaining two lamps, UU reading www.uukanshu. This time, she didn't rush to bargain with Rick, but took several photos of the two lamps with her mobile phone, and then sent them out.
After waiting for a while, her cell phone rang, and then she got up and left the seat, went to the door of the store, and carefully said this to the person on the other side of the phone, discussing something.
Soon she hung up the phone, and then another call came in immediately, and then there was an endless stream of calls. She made no less than 20 calls, and this call lasted for an hour.
Rick took Jin Muchen to hide away. He knew that it was Lilian who was contacting her customers and asking them about their purchase intentions.
It is not a problem to speculate and sell now, almost everyone can.
After waiting for almost an hour, Lillian put down the phone and came to Rick with a smile on her face.
"Okay, Rick, now let's talk about the price!"
"Well, I'll make a price first. This peony lantern is 700,000, and this dragonfly lantern is 600,000!"
After listening to Rick's offer, Jin Muchen hid in the distance and shrank his neck. This guy is really black. The price he told himself before was not like this.
But this time, Lillian showed her strong-woman demeanor.
"Two lamps are packaged, a total of 800,000!"
Her answer was still neat and tidy, but this time she was more icy, rational and strong. The woman who was so upset before is gone, and the strong woman mode is officially back!
