At an auction in Melbourne, Australia, in 2016, a Wooden Statue of a Chinese Ming Dynasty Luohan was being auctioned, and the experts in charge of the inspection found the interior of the wood carving during the final inspection

In 2016, at an auction in Melbourne, Australia, a wooden statue of Luohan from the Ming Dynasty in China was being auctioned, and the experts in charge of the inspection found that the inside of the wood carving contained a silver ticket from the private collection of a Ming Dynasty man 600 years ago! Genuine Daming Bao banknotes!

In the end, due to the discovery of silver tickets, the price of the Luohan wood carving auction soared instantly, even higher than the price of the wood carving, and finally the two treasures were auctioned together for 300,000 yuan.

So reverie...

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, countless cultural flows on the mainland have been overseas, and many auction houses around the world have distributed the shadow of Chinese cultural relics. This Arhat wood carving is the product of the Qing Dynasty's imperial palace, but as the British and French allies looted the Yuanmingyuan, it spread to Australia, was collected by two collectors, and was sold again in 2016...

There are many, many similar stories.

I followed the clues down to a white man named Paul Sumner. In addition to the above-mentioned Arhat wood carvings, this buddy also has a lot of hard goods.

So, it was reverie again...