In many professional collection networks received daily to ask for consultation and identification of letters, the most common sentence is "please evaluate".
In the daily membership activities, the most concerned question is "How much is my antique worth?" In such cases, experts often feel embarrassed and cannot answer these questions directly with the phrase "value XX yuan", because ——— "antiques are priceless".
Of course, "priceless" here refers to the value of antiques. Because each antique is a cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors, there are countless historical, cultural, and social information deposited on it, and this information cannot be replaced by any other artifact. In this sense, any antique is unique, and therefore a "priceless treasure".
But when an antique enters the market and circulates in the market, it is indeed necessary to attach a "price" to measure it, and an obvious contradiction arises here. A beginner wrote to him about his experience in learning to collect: "People say that to learn porcelain, you have to go through four levels: distinguishing the authenticity, breaking the kiln mouth, looking at the age, and fixing the value. Now the first three items are not in the next, a little careful, but the last one always feels that the skill is not enough, but also have to ask the teacher to dial one or two." Indeed, this problem has caused considerable trouble to many new and old collectors. In order to let everyone have a clearer concept, the "price" of an antique can be comprehensively measured from the following aspects.
First of all, a small story: in an antique shop, there is a bronze vessel, lined with a wooden support wrapped in red cloth, with a price of 100,000 yuan, which is the most expensive antique in the store. A scholar collector with a deposit of just 100,000 yuan looked at it and loved it, but only 10,000 yuan could be mobilized in his pocket, so he had to say that it was too expensive and too expensive, and regrettably left. Then came a million yuan of senior white-collar workers to see and like, although you can afford to pay this price, but the cost of building money, car payment, children's schooling costs will be greatly reduced, but also have to reluctantly go. Finally came a large sum of money worth tens of millions of yuan, and when you entered the door, I asked you which thing is the most expensive here? After learning that it was this bronze, he ordered his followers: Give money! Give 10,000 more wooden shelves to take away!
The price of antiques is different in everyone's eyes, and what you think is expensive, he thinks is too cheap, so it is impossible to measure it by a uniform standard. Whether it is a pure hobby or investment appreciation, collection needs to be backed by economic strength, so playing antiques must first correctly estimate their economic strength, and do what they can to find and collect the collections that they like and can afford to buy when their own economic strength allows. Once you encounter cultural relics beyond your ability, the wisest choice is to give up, so as to maintain a calm mind and not be easily deceived.
Let's talk about a small story: once several collectors visited the antique market, and saw a Southern Song Dynasty Longquan kiln blue glazed double-ring tiger ear spiral bottle in a shop, with a small injury. The owner offered a fairly high price at the time. Everyone commented on it for half a day, and they all thought it was a good thing, but they all thought it was too expensive, and it was also injured, so they all gave up. Only one new lady felt that she had never seen such a porcelain in the shape of a vessel, and bought it for a price. To this day, everyone knows that there are only two or three pieces of Longquan kiln ware in the shape of such a vessel in the country, and it has suddenly become the object of pursuit by collectors, and the price has increased by dozens of times.
There are many kinds of antiques, including civil, official, and royal uses, as well as special burial utensils. Take Tang Sancai as an example: in the past, Tang Sancai was very expensive, but because the Tang Dynasty paid attention to thick burials, there were shops specializing in the production and sale of underworld utensils, and there were quite a few kinds of artifacts unearthed, and some tombs unearthed hundreds of various dishes at a time, so the price has recently plummeted.
There are many antique shops that specialize in sancai utensils because they do not pay attention to the rarity of the market, blindly eat too many sancai utensils in the early days, and the funds cannot be turned around and close their doors. For example, the portraits of many large families in the Qing Dynasty are indeed antiques, but there is no price, because every family has it, and there is too much in existence.
Therefore, collectors usually have to pay attention to carefully examine the market circulation quantity of each kind of cultural relics, which are more, which are less, and which are rare, so that when you encounter an artifact, you can quickly judge whether it is a rare variety and know it.
The real player is to be able to see the connotation of an antique that ordinary people can't see, and be good at excavating its special historical value and cultural value and making an inconspicuous antique worth a hundred times.
In the daily "treasure hunt" process, great attention should be paid to studying the cultural and historical information contained in an antique, interpreting the details that others do not know and do not pay attention to, and using this to correctly estimate its actual price.
In fact, because many domestic sellers themselves are not high in their own cultural attainments, they consider its cultural and historical value relatively little when judging the price of an antique, so they leave a considerable price space for willing buyers, which is also the last chance for players to really "pick up leaks".
This is how a veteran player talks about his pricing experience. He divided the price of an antique into two types, one is the average market price, and the other is the price he is willing to pay, which is adjusted according to his liking for a particular artifact.
For example, an antique with an average market price of thousands of yuan, if you like it, you may wish to add a 20%-30%, as long as you like it, buy it is a victory, you are happy; if you don't like it, or don't have too much willingness to deal, then you may as well reduce him by 20%-30%, and you are happy to buy it, because you picked up a bargain, you can't buy it and you are not disappointed, because you don't care very much. This mentality is very healthy, so his collection is also more successful.
It turns out that the antiques he bought back at a higher price must have contained some specific factors themselves, and these factors were also recognized by everyone, so the more expensive things bought at that time are now rising in price, and they have long been worth the money.
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