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It's not that this box has a long history. It's something from Five Dynasties and ten countries, that is, it's decades earlier than that of the Northern Song Dynasty. As for the value, it is just a silver Luban box suspected of being used by the royal family. The value is really not very high.
The value of a random item in the storage space is so much higher than the half missing Luban box that I don't know where to go.
What Yang Jing didn't expect was that he could meet this half Luban box here.
Without him, in Yang Jing's hand, there is also a half Luban box very similar to this Luban box.
The half of the Luban box Yang Jing has been identified many times with the holy ring. He knows that it was cast in the first year of Qingtai in the later Tang Dynasty, that is, in 934, the year when Emperor Li Congke cried to the throne of the later Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, the half Luban box was indeed used by the royal family of the late Tang Dynasty. It was forged by a man called "yuechengzi".
The half of the Luban box in the storage space was found in the treasure of the last czar. It is a small thing with an ugly appearance, but it can be treasured by Nicholas II, which is enough to show Nicholas II's love for this box.
Unfortunately, after Yang Jing got the box, he also thought a lot of ways to open it. As a result, he didn't open it because half of it was missing. Yang Jing did not dare to break the box by force for fear of destroying what might be hidden inside, so she was still in the storage space.
This kind of box with complex mechanism is called "Luban box" in Chinese folk. It is said that it was invented by Luban. It is also called "mechanism box" and "secret box". In a word, it is a mechanism instrument specially used to hold important things in ancient China.
This kind of box can only be opened by unlocking the mechanism step by step according to certain steps. As long as the steps of unlocking the mechanism are wrong, the box cannot be opened. If you want to break the box by force, the mechanism in the box will destroy the contents before the box is broken. It's amazing.
At that time, Yang Jing thought there was something important in the Luban box after he found it in the treasure of the last tsar, but he couldn't open the box and couldn't get the contents. It made Yang Jing's heart itch for a long time.
Later, seeing that he really couldn't open the box in a normal way, Yang Jing completely died.
I didn't expect to see another half of Luban box, which was suspected to be a whole set.
As expected, not many people are interested in this box. Although this box has a history of more than 1000 years, its appearance is too ordinary and incomplete. How can Europeans and Americans who have always attached importance to interests be interested in this box?
It seemed that Timothy had expected this. Timothy smiled bitterly and said something to his cousin scaff who stood beside him. Perhaps when the box was taken out as a auction, there was no consensus within the Mellon family.
Seeing that the box was about to flow, Yang Jing stretched out her hand and said, "can I do it?"
The voice was particularly loud in the quiet hall, and many people immediately focused on Yang Jing.
While walking forward, Yang Jing explained: "in China, there is a rule that if there is something you can't see, you can apply to the owner for inspection. I'm a little uncertain about this box, so I want to apply for inspection."
Timothy took the microphone and said, "Mr. Smith, there's no problem with this. Please look at the box carefully. To be honest, our family hasn't figured out what's going on with this box."
After all, this is not a formal auction. All aspects of the auction must be interpreted in detail for the auctioneer to understand.
In this kind of charity auction, it doesn't matter if you can shoot or not. In itself, these auctioneers come to do charity, and charity does not enforce this theory.
Yang Jing walked to the front desk in three or two steps, looked at Timothy and skeff, then picked up a pair of white gloves from the table and put them on. Then she carefully picked up the box.
Seeing that the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith was so interested in the incomplete box, the people below also whispered. It was like countless green bean flies in the originally quiet Hall
Yang Jing picked up the box and looked at it carefully. Especially when she saw the slightly concave place on the incomplete side of the box, she already had a judgment of eight, nine and ten in her heart.
The box is only the size of an adult's fist, so when Yang Jing started the perspective function of "heavenly eye", he immediately saw the internal situation of the box.
Sure enough, there was something in it, but because it was tightly grouped, Yang Jing could not see what was written or painted in it even with the perspective function. The only thing that could be sure was that it was a mass of silk.
Yang Jing has also encountered this situation. Isn't there a genuine painting of the river during the Qingming Festival hidden in the scroll of the picture of the great river in Jiangning, which was collected from the Jinling night market in the early 1980s?
Now there is something hidden in the incomplete Luban box, but I don't know what is on the silk.
Yang Jing once looked through the half of the Luban box from the last Tsar's treasure and found that the half of the Luban box was not a box, but more like a key, because the half of the Luban box was not hollow, and it was full of organs.
The inside of this half Luban box is hollow. Compared with the other half Luban box, this half Luban box does not have too many mechanisms, but if the other half is missing, this half Luban box cannot be opened.
By this time, Yang Jing can basically determine that the half of the Luban box in her hand and the half of the Luban box in the storage space should be a set. The half Luban box in the storage space is the key, and this half Luban box is a lock!
Yang Jing put the box down on the table with no surprise on her face, but when she took off her gloves, the little finger of her left hand seemed to inadvertently touch this half of the Luban box, and the holy ring immediately gave the exact answer.
"Incomplete Luban box, yuechengzi, 934."
Yes, this half of the Luban box is indeed the same as the half of the Luban box found in the last Tsar's treasure. Only when it is combined can we open this Luban box!
At this moment, Yang Jing was determined, smiled and asked the white glove auctioneer who presided over the auction: "Sir, what is the starting price of this box?"
The auctioneer kept an eye on the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith, and immediately said respectfully, "the starting price of this box is 120000 dollars, sir."
Although the auctioneer is a very famous white glove in New York and even in the United States, he also knows that the people who come to this banquet hall today are either rich or expensive, which is far from being comparable to those auctioneers when he presided over the auction, so he was respectful to everyone he met.
Yang Jing smiled and said, "OK, I'll give you 120000." with this number, Yang Jing turned back and walked back to the position where she had just stood, picked up her wine glass and touched Bloomberg nearby.
If no one competes with him, then this half of Luban box will become Yang Jing's thing.
Cole Smith, the incarnation of Yang Jing, is the man of the moment at today's reception. From the beginning, he smoked cigars with the core figures of the top ten consortia, and after he came out, a group of tycoons came forward to make friends, which is enough to prove the weight of Cole Smith.
When the half Luban box was taken out just now, no one bid. It was about to flow. Cole Smith made a bid at this time. It is supposed that no one bid with him, but it seems that someone is going to have a hard time with the mysterious Cole Smith today.
"200000 here!" as soon as Yang Jing's voice fell, a voice rang out on the other side of the hall. Yang Jing looked up and found that the bidder was a white fat man, Harper Lawrence, chairman of Massachusetts mutual life insurance company, who had just photographed Monroe's necklace with $1.7 million.
Yang Jing frowned and didn't make a sound, but Bloomberg around him was unhappy. He complained in a low voice: "this Lawrence is a very annoying person. He didn't bid just now, obviously he didn't care about the box. Now he bid again. He must have decided to do so after seeing your bid. Cole. Is this guy specifically aimed at you?"
Yang Jing shook her head slightly and still didn't speak. This situation is very common in China now. When visiting ghost markets or antique markets, some guys who don't understand the rules often do so. If you are a famous person in the industry and happen to be recognized again, come on, you have a lot of trouble trying to find something.
Those who don't know the rules or pretend not to know the rules will stick to your ass like brown sugar. As long as you bid for an object, they will definitely not abide by the rules and bid at the same time. The price is higher than you. You can get tired of it if you're angry.
But now many stall owners are also beginning to be unruly. If you follow the old rules of the industry, the stall owner can't accept other people's quotation before a person leaves, even if you pay high money.
But now many stall owners don't care if you come first and then arrive. I'll sell things to whoever has a high quotation.
Driven by interests, many rules in the industry have been thrown out of the sky
This Harper Lawrence is obviously such a person. Of course, he may not understand the rules of Chinese antiques, but it is obviously impolite for him to bid suddenly on this occasion.
Yang Jing whispered to Bloomberg, "Michael, is this guy from the Boston consortium?"
Bloomberg nodded.
Yang Jing's mouth turned slightly, stretched out her hand and said, "200000!"
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It's not that this box has a long history. It's something from Five Dynasties and ten countries, that is, it's decades earlier than that of the Northern Song Dynasty. As for the value, it is just a silver Luban box suspected of being used by the royal family. The value is really not very high.
The value of a random item in the storage space is so much higher than the half missing Luban box that I don't know where to go.
What Yang Jing didn't expect was that he could meet this half Luban box here.
Without him, in Yang Jing's hand, there is also a half Luban box very similar to this Luban box.
The half of the Luban box Yang Jing has been identified many times with the holy ring. He knows that it was cast in the first year of Qingtai in the later Tang Dynasty, that is, in 934, the year when Emperor Li Congke cried to the throne of the later Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, the half Luban box was indeed used by the royal family of the late Tang Dynasty. It was forged by a man called "yuechengzi".
The half of the Luban box in the storage space was found in the treasure of the last czar. It is a small thing with an ugly appearance, but it can be treasured by Nicholas II, which is enough to show Nicholas II's love for this box.
Unfortunately, after Yang Jing got the box, he also thought a lot of ways to open it. As a result, he didn't open it because half of it was missing. Yang Jing did not dare to break the box by force for fear of destroying what might be hidden inside, so she was still in the storage space.
This kind of box with complex mechanism is called "Luban box" in Chinese folk. It is said that it was invented by Luban. It is also called "mechanism box" and "secret box". In a word, it is a mechanism instrument specially used to hold important things in ancient China.
This kind of box can only be opened by unlocking the mechanism step by step according to certain steps. As long as the steps of unlocking the mechanism are wrong, the box cannot be opened. If you want to break the box by force, the mechanism in the box will destroy the contents before the box is broken. It's amazing.
At that time, Yang Jing thought there was something important in the Luban box after he found it in the treasure of the last tsar, but he couldn't open the box and couldn't get the contents. It made Yang Jing's heart itch for a long time.
Later, seeing that he really couldn't open the box in a normal way, Yang Jing completely died.
I didn't expect to see another half of Luban box, which was suspected to be a whole set.
As expected, not many people are interested in this box. Although this box has a history of more than 1000 years, its appearance is too ordinary and incomplete. How can Europeans and Americans who have always attached importance to interests be interested in this box?
It seemed that Timothy had expected this. Timothy smiled bitterly and said something to his cousin scaff who stood beside him. Perhaps when the box was taken out as a auction, there was no consensus within the Mellon family.
Seeing that the box was about to flow, Yang Jing stretched out her hand and said, "can I do it?"
The voice was particularly loud in the quiet hall, and many people immediately focused on Yang Jing.
While walking forward, Yang Jing explained: "in China, there is a rule that if there is something you can't see, you can apply to the owner for inspection. I'm a little uncertain about this box, so I want to apply for inspection."
Timothy took the microphone and said, "Mr. Smith, there's no problem with this. Please look at the box carefully. To be honest, our family hasn't figured out what's going on with this box."
After all, this is not a formal auction. All aspects of the auction must be interpreted in detail for the auctioneer to understand.
In this kind of charity auction, it doesn't matter if you can shoot or not. In itself, these auctioneers come to do charity, and charity does not enforce this theory.
Yang Jing walked to the front desk in three or two steps, looked at Timothy and skeff, then picked up a pair of white gloves from the table and put them on. Then she carefully picked up the box.
Seeing that the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith was so interested in the incomplete box, the people below also whispered. It was like countless green bean flies in the originally quiet Hall
Yang Jing picked up the box and looked at it carefully. Especially when she saw the slightly concave place on the incomplete side of the box, she already had a judgment of eight, nine and ten in her heart.
The box is only the size of an adult's fist, so when Yang Jing started the perspective function of "heavenly eye", he immediately saw the internal situation of the box.
Sure enough, there was something in it, but because it was tightly grouped, Yang Jing could not see what was written or painted in it even with the perspective function. The only thing that could be sure was that it was a mass of silk.
Yang Jing has also encountered this situation. Isn't there a genuine painting of the river during the Qingming Festival hidden in the scroll of the picture of the great river in Jiangning, which was collected from the Jinling night market in the early 1980s?
Now there is something hidden in the incomplete Luban box, but I don't know what is on the silk.
Yang Jing once looked through the half of the Luban box from the last Tsar's treasure and found that the half of the Luban box was not a box, but more like a key, because the half of the Luban box was not hollow, and it was full of organs.
The inside of this half Luban box is hollow. Compared with the other half Luban box, this half Luban box does not have too many mechanisms, but if the other half is missing, this half Luban box cannot be opened.
By this time, Yang Jing can basically determine that the half of the Luban box in her hand and the half of the Luban box in the storage space should be a set. The half Luban box in the storage space is the key, and this half Luban box is a lock!
Yang Jing put the box down on the table with no surprise on her face, but when she took off her gloves, the little finger of her left hand seemed to inadvertently touch this half of the Luban box, and the holy ring immediately gave the exact answer.
"Incomplete Luban box, yuechengzi, 934."
Yes, this half of the Luban box is indeed the same as the half of the Luban box found in the last Tsar's treasure. Only when it is combined can we open this Luban box!
At this moment, Yang Jing was determined, smiled and asked the white glove auctioneer who presided over the auction: "Sir, what is the starting price of this box?"
The auctioneer kept an eye on the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith, and immediately said respectfully, "the starting price of this box is 120000 dollars, sir."
Although the auctioneer is a very famous white glove in New York and even in the United States, he also knows that the people who come to this banquet hall today are either rich or expensive, which is far from being comparable to those auctioneers when he presided over the auction, so he was respectful to everyone he met.
Yang Jing smiled and said, "OK, I'll give you 120000." with this number, Yang Jing turned back and walked back to the position where she had just stood, picked up her wine glass and touched Bloomberg nearby.
If no one competes with him, then this half of Luban box will become Yang Jing's thing.
Cole Smith, the incarnation of Yang Jing, is the man of the moment at today's reception. From the beginning, he smoked cigars with the core figures of the top ten consortia, and after he came out, a group of tycoons came forward to make friends, which is enough to prove the weight of Cole Smith.
When the half Luban box was taken out just now, no one bid. It was about to flow. Cole Smith made a bid at this time. It is supposed that no one bid with him, but it seems that someone is going to have a hard time with the mysterious Cole Smith today.
"200000 here!" as soon as Yang Jing's voice fell, a voice rang out on the other side of the hall. Yang Jing looked up and found that the bidder was a white fat man, Harper Lawrence, chairman of Massachusetts mutual life insurance company, who had just photographed Monroe's necklace with $1.7 million.
Yang Jing frowned and didn't make a sound, but Bloomberg around him was unhappy. He complained in a low voice: "this Lawrence is a very annoying person. He didn't bid just now, obviously he didn't care about the box. Now he bid again. He must have decided to do so after seeing your bid. Cole. Is this guy specifically aimed at you?"
Yang Jing shook her head slightly and still didn't speak. This situation is very common in China now. When visiting ghost markets or antique markets, some guys who don't understand the rules often do so. If you are a famous person in the industry and happen to be recognized again, come on, you have a lot of trouble trying to find something.
Those who don't know the rules or pretend not to know the rules will stick to your ass like brown sugar. As long as you bid for an object, they will definitely not abide by the rules and bid at the same time. The price is higher than you. You can get tired of it if you're angry.
But now many stall owners are also beginning to be unruly. If you follow the old rules of the industry, the stall owner can't accept other people's quotation before a person leaves, even if you pay high money.
But now many stall owners don't care if you come first and then arrive. I'll sell things to whoever has a high quotation.
Driven by interests, many rules in the industry have been thrown out of the sky
This Harper Lawrence is obviously such a person. Of course, he may not understand the rules of Chinese antiques, but it is obviously impolite for him to bid suddenly on this occasion.
Yang Jing whispered to Bloomberg, "Michael, is this guy from the Boston consortium?"
Bloomberg nodded.
Yang Jing's mouth turned slightly, stretched out her hand and said, "200000!"
It's not that this box has a long history. It's something from Five Dynasties and ten countries, that is, it's decades earlier than that of the Northern Song Dynasty. As for the value, it is just a silver Luban box suspected of being used by the royal family. The value is really not very high.The value of a random item in the storage space is so much higher than the half missing Luban box that I don't know where to go.What Yang Jing didn't expect was that he could meet this half Luban box here.Without him, in Yang Jing's hand, there is also a half Luban box very similar to this Luban box.The half of the Luban box Yang Jing has been identified many times with the holy ring. He knows that it was cast in the first year of Qingtai in the later Tang Dynasty, that is, in 934, the year when Emperor Li Congke cried to the throne of the later Tang Dynasty.Moreover, the half Luban box was indeed used by the royal family of the late Tang Dynasty. It was forged by a man called "yuechengzi".The half of the Luban box in the storage space was found in the treasure of the last czar. It is a small thing with an ugly appearance, but it can be treasured by Nicholas II, which is enough to show Nicholas II's love for this box.Unfortunately, after Yang Jing got the box, he also thought a lot of ways to open it. As a result, he didn't open it because half of it was missing. Yang Jing did not dare to break the box by force for fear of destroying what might be hidden inside, so she was still in the storage space.This kind of box with complex mechanism is called "Luban box" in Chinese folk. It is said that it was invented by Luban. It is also called "mechanism box" and "secret box". In a word, it is a mechanism instrument specially used to hold important things in ancient China.This kind of box can only be opened by unlocking the mechanism step by step according to certain steps. As long as the steps of unlocking the mechanism are wrong, the box cannot be opened. If you want to break the box by force, the mechanism in the box will destroy the contents before the box is broken. It's amazing.At that time, Yang Jing thought there was something important in the Luban box after he found it in the treasure of the last tsar, but he couldn't open the box and couldn't get the contents. It made Yang Jing's heart itch for a long time.Later, seeing that he really couldn't open the box in a normal way, Yang Jing completely died.I didn't expect to see another half of Luban box, which was suspected to be a whole set.As expected, not many people are interested in this box. Although this box has a history of more than 1000 years, its appearance is too ordinary and incomplete. How can Europeans and Americans who have always attached importance to interests be interested in this box?It seemed that Timothy had expected this. Timothy smiled bitterly and said something to his cousin scaff who stood beside him. Perhaps when the box was taken out as a auction, there was no consensus within the Mellon family.Seeing that the box was about to flow, Yang Jing stretched out her hand and said, "can I do it?"The voice was particularly loud in the quiet hall, and many people immediately focused on Yang Jing.While walking forward, Yang Jing explained: "in China, there is a rule that if there is something you can't see, you can apply to the owner for inspection. I'm a little uncertain about this box, so I want to apply for inspection."Timothy took the microphone and said, "Mr. Smith, there's no problem with this. Please look at the box carefully. To be honest, our family hasn't figured out what's going on with this box."After all, this is not a formal auction. All aspects of the auction must be interpreted in detail for the auctioneer to understand.In this kind of charity auction, it doesn't matter if you can shoot or not. In itself, these auctioneers come to do charity, and charity does not enforce this theory.Yang Jing walked to the front desk in three or two steps, looked at Timothy and skeff, then picked up a pair of white gloves from the table and put them on. Then she carefully picked up the box.Seeing that the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith was so interested in the incomplete box, the people below also whispered. It was like countless green bean flies in the originally quiet HallYang Jing picked up the box and looked at it carefully. Especially when she saw the slightly concave place on the incomplete side of the box, she already had a judgment of eight, nine and ten in her heart.The box is only the size of an adult's fist, so when Yang Jing started the perspective function of "heavenly eye", he immediately saw the internal situation of the box.Sure enough, there was something in it, but because it was tightly grouped, Yang Jing could not see what was written or painted in it even with the perspective function. The only thing that could be sure was that it was a mass of silk.Yang Jing has also encountered this situation. Isn't there a genuine painting of the river during the Qingming Festival hidden in the scroll of the picture of the great river in Jiangning, which was collected from the Jinling night market in the early 1980s?Now there is something hidden in the incomplete Luban box, but I don't know what is on the silk.Yang Jing once looked through the half of the Luban box from the last Tsar's treasure and found that the half of the Luban box was not a box, but more like a key, because the half of the Luban box was not hollow, and it was full of organs.The inside of this half Luban box is hollow. Compared with the other half Luban box, this half Luban box does not have too many mechanisms, but if the other half is missing, this half Luban box cannot be opened.By this time, Yang Jing can basically determine that the half of the Luban box in her hand and the half of the Luban box in the storage space should be a set. The half Luban box in the storage space is the key, and this half Luban box is a lock!Yang Jing put the box down on the table with no surprise on her face, but when she took off her gloves, the little finger of her left hand seemed to inadvertently touch this half of the Luban box, and the holy ring immediately gave the exact answer."Incomplete Luban box, yuechengzi, 934."Yes, this half of the Luban box is indeed the same as the half of the Luban box found in the last Tsar's treasure. Only when it is combined can we open this Luban box!At this moment, Yang Jing was determined, smiled and asked the white glove auctioneer who presided over the auction: "Sir, what is the starting price of this box?"The auctioneer kept an eye on the mysterious Mr. Cole Smith, and immediately said respectfully, "the starting price of this box is 120000 dollars, sir."Although the auctioneer is a very famous white glove in New York and even in the United States, he also knows that the people who come to this banquet hall today are either rich or expensive, which is far from being comparable to those auctioneers when he presided over the auction, so he was respectful to everyone he met.Yang Jing smiled and said, "OK, I'll give you 120000." with this number, Yang Jing turned back and walked back to the position where she had just stood, picked up her wine glass and touched Bloomberg nearby.If no one competes with him, then this half of Luban box will become Yang Jing's thing.Cole Smith, the incarnation of Yang Jing, is the man of the moment at today's reception. From the beginning, he smoked cigars with the core figures of the top ten consortia, and after he came out, a group of tycoons came forward to make friends, which is enough to prove the weight of Cole Smith.When the half Luban box was taken out just now, no one bid. It was about to flow. Cole Smith made a bid at this time. It is supposed that no one bid with him, but it seems that someone is going to have a hard time with the mysterious Cole Smith today."200000 here!" as soon as Yang Jing's voice fell, a voice rang out on the other side of the hall. Yang Jing looked up and found that the bidder was a white fat man, Harper Lawrence, chairman of Massachusetts mutual life insurance company, who had just photographed Monroe's necklace with $1.7 million.Yang Jing frowned and didn't make a sound, but Bloomberg around him was unhappy. He complained in a low voice: "this Lawrence is a very annoying person. He didn't bid just now, obviously he didn't care about the box. Now he bid again. He must have decided to do so after seeing your bid. Cole. Is this guy specifically aimed at you?"Yang Jing shook her head slightly and still didn't speak. This situation is very common in China now. When visiting ghost markets or antique markets, some guys who don't understand the rules often do so. If you are a famous person in the industry and happen to be recognized again, come on, you have a lot of trouble trying to find something.Those who don't know the rules or pretend not to know the rules will stick to your ass like brown sugar. As long as you bid for an object, they will definitely not abide by the rules and bid at the same time. The price is higher than you. You can get tired of it if you're angry.But now many stall owners are also beginning to be unruly. If you follow the old rules of the industry, the stall owner can't accept other people's quotation before a person leaves, even if you pay high money.But now many stall owners don't care if you come first and then arrive. I'll sell things to whoever has a high quotation.Driven by interests, many rules in the industry have been thrown out of the skyThis Harper Lawrence is obviously such a person. Of course, he may not understand the rules of Chinese antiques, but it is obviously impolite for him to bid suddenly on this occasion.Yang Jing whispered to Bloomberg, "Michael, is this guy from the Boston consortium?"Bloomberg nodded.Yang Jing's mouth turned slightly, stretched out her hand and said, "200000!"
