MTL - Treasure Hunt America-Chapter 73 Antique desk of unknown origin

Ask for collection, ask for recommendation~~~!

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Before leaving, Capote asked him why he chose this table instead of the more valuable treasures.

Jin Muchen didn't know how to answer, so he could only say perfunctorily, "I just lack a desk right now."

And Capote rolled his eyes and told him that this desk was a good desk. It was an old desk. After all, this was what he and that dead ghost James dug out from the warehouse of the Coen brothers' mansion.

As for who the Coen brothers are, he didn't go into details. He just asked, how many Coen brothers are there in the United States?

Jin Muchen, the name of the Coen brothers, seems to have really heard of it, but he didn't bother to pay attention to what the Coen brothers did.

Anyway, in his opinion, this table is very good.

I drove back to Flushing and took Candace home. When I got out of the car, Candace seemed to want to say something to him, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't say anything. He only spoke to him when he was leaving. Said she wanted to calm down for two days.

Although Jin Muchen was very worried about her condition, he didn't ask too many questions, so he could only nod and watch her get off the car and go upstairs, and then returned to Fang Bo's antique shop gloomily.

"Yo, don't forget to take a table when you go to resign? I think you're just enjoying it now, huh?"

Uncle Fang helped him unload the table from the luggage rack on the roof of the car, and joked to him that Jin Muchen could only laugh, and then fooled him. He didn't dare to elaborate on the origin of this table.

He just fooled Fang Bo and said that on the way back, he happened to see a family holding a garage sale. He happened to be missing a desk. Seeing that the desk was good, he bought it back.

Uncle Fang didn't ask in detail. After all, this table looks ordinary. Although it is a few years old, the workmanship is a bit rough, and the materials are not particularly expensive. It can barely be regarded as an antique, but it is also Not worth much.

In the collection circle abroad, the collection of antique furniture has always been a very popular item, but if you want to play this, you must first understand the preferences of foreign collectors.

In the domestic antique circle, when collecting antique furniture, only the material of the furniture is valued.

In the foreign collection circle, the collectors here pay more attention to who has used the antique furniture. European royal families and historical celebrities, the used furniture is the most popular among collectors, even if The materials for those furniture aren't top-notch, and that's okay.

What they value more is the accumulation of history and the inheritance of culture. In the vernacular, the experience used by the royal family or celebrities will automatically add to these furniture. What they value more is the story behind these antiques. The antique furniture seems to them as a witness to that period of history.

This is the focus of foreign antique furniture collections, and when Jin Muchen brought back this table, the material can only be regarded as medium and high-quality. Maple is very good, but it is not a top-level furniture material.

Moreover, this table does not have any clear historical marks, and it seems that the workmanship is very rough. It is unlikely that it was used by European royal families or those who were once famous.

So no matter how you look at it, it's not worth the money.

After Jin Muchen came back, he also carefully studied the table for a few days. Looking at the carving patterns on it, it should be furniture used by the upper class in Britain hundreds of years ago.

However, it is not related to the kind used by the royal family, and the most famous British antique furniture in the collection market is the Victorian period, and this one obviously does not have the style of that era.

So no matter how you look at this table, it is not very valuable.

But Jin Muchen didn't plan to take this table, because he still couldn't understand why this table emits such a soft yellow light, that kind of yellow light should belong to that kind of royal extravagance in his opinion. , It doesn't look dazzling, but it naturally carries a royal majesty.

In the end, he chose to leave this table in his bedroom. He was sure that this table must have an origin, but he still needed time to figure out what the origin of this table was.

Before I knew it, more than a month had passed, and it was almost Christmas.

During this time, Jin Muchen had been in Fang Bo's shop. Helen seemed to have disappeared during this time. He didn't come to disturb him again, and he was happy to be quiet.

He hadn't seen Candice for a few weeks, which made him feel bad. He called her a few times, but each call was not long. She was busy with her final exams recently, and There seems to be an incomprehensible barrier between the two.

The state between the two made Jin Muchen a little irritable, but he didn't know how to break the current state, so he could only focus on work, hoping to use work to numb himself.

But during this period of time, his good luck seemed to have run out. He visited the Hell's Kitchen Market in Manhattan and found nothing to admire.

And there has been no news from Boss Wang. Originally, he had made an appointment with Uncle Fang to come over during Christmas, but he never called again.

He even wanted to call the guy to ask if he would come, but Uncle Fang told him to keep calm.

In Fang Bo's words, firstly, people may be really busy, and secondly, calling him may make this Boss Wang have some other ideas. If there is a deal at that time, they will be at a disadvantage, after all. Getting on the pole is not a business!

So all they can do is wait. If there is no news about that guy after Christmas, Uncle Fang will help him to contact him. After all, they are the ones who have good things in their hands, so they don't have to worry at all.

However, Fang Bo also saw Jin Muchen's recent anxiety and guessed that he might be in trouble emotionally, so he simply recommended a place for him to relax and gain insight.

"Mu Chen, you've almost done a few markets here in New York. If there's really nothing good, I think you might as well go out and have a look."

After dinner that day, Uncle Fang and him were sitting in front of the fireplace on the second floor when he suddenly mentioned it to him.

Central heating is not implemented here in the United States. Except for those apartment buildings with central air conditioning, ordinary residents rely on their own fireplaces for heating. If conditions permit, they can install a water heating boiler in the basement of their homes, but some people prefer fireplaces , And now the fireplace is also divided into several types, some are old-fashioned wood burning, and some are directly burning natural gas.

Uncle Fang's house is burning natural gas, very clean, and the heating effect is also very good.

"Huh? Go somewhere else?"

"Haha, of course, silly boy, the United States is so big, you don't think that only New York has such an antique market, right?"

Fang Bo laughed, looked at Jin Muchen and said.

To be honest, during this period of time, Jin Muchen's main energy was still in a place like New York. As for the whole country, he really didn't know much about it.

"In fact, there are several major antique distribution centers in the United States. On the east coast, such as Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, etc., the antique markets in these cities, except for Philadelphia and Boston, are more than New York is strong. Detroit and Chicago used to be pretty good, but those places are all ruined now..."

Fang Bo said that he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, and Jin Muchen also knew that Detroit and Chicago were now completely finished.

At the beginning of the last century, where was a famous industrial city in the United States, many rich people lived, but unfortunately, greedy capitalists hired a large number of black people from the South to work there in order to reduce labor costs.

After the end of World War II, after a period of economic prosperity in the United States, it encountered several economic crises, especially the oil crisis in the 1970s, which made Japanese cars take advantage of the situation and invaded the American market.

Since then, the U.S. economy has begun to transform, and industrial cities like Detroit and Chicago have also begun to decline.

The rapid reproduction of black people, the rising unemployment rate and crime rate~www.novelbuddy.com~ Finally, a large number of white rich people began to leave and migrate south, which eventually led to the decline of the two cities.

"On the West Coast, Los Angeles and San Francisco are also very good, especially San Francisco, there are many good things, I think if you have the opportunity, you can go to those places, maybe you can get a lot of them Good stuff!"

Fang Bo quickly adjusted his emotions and said to Jin Muchen, who nodded thoughtfully.

Anyway, things are not going well recently, so it's better to go out and get better.

"Then Uncle Fang, where do you think it's better for me to start?"

"Haha, I need to ask, of course it's Washington? Where is the political and cultural center of the United States? Although the size of the city and the economic environment are not comparable to New York, it is a place called the Special District, and in fact, where is the United States? The largest antique market center on the east coast. Did you know that in the Chinese antique circle in the United States, Pasque Market in Washington has the title of Panjiayuan in the United States. If you go at this time, you will not be disappointed. Your kid's luck has always been good, a bit against the sky, I think where you go at this time, maybe you can get something, it's better than going around in the circle of New York."

"Really? Panjiayuan in the United States? It's a bit interesting, it sounds like it's really worth a visit!"

Fang Bo said this, Jin Muchen is really interested, Panjiayuan in the United States? If you don't turn around, how can you be worthy of yourself?

That night, Jin Muchen started to pack his bags and was about to leave for Panjiayuan in the United States to have a good look.