Antiques this line is an industry where fame and fortune coexist, you can also have fame, money and collections, but the most important thing is to have a level, in this industry, accumulate day by day, in order to achieve success. In the current antiques industry, it can be said that the number of people who have started operating antique shops for a few years without contact with antiques is innumerable. In the past, whether it was an antique business or a collection of antiques, as long as you entered the antique industry, you must understand and understand the rules or habits in the industry, otherwise you can't really enter the industry.
1. Traditional learning methods
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Mainly in the antique shop apprentice, the master and customers to exchange views on porcelain, the painting of the utensils, hair color, shape, foot, style, why the utensils are real, how to determine the age, etc., the shop owner communicates with the buyer during the transaction. The disciple can only listen and remember from the side.
In addition, the boss often takes the apprentice to the ghost city or the countryside to buy antiques, in addition to helping the master to do some, he also listens to and learns at any time in the transaction. During the three-year apprenticeship, there is no salary, and the family members have to pay a certain amount of tuition fees to the boss every year, and they also have to give gifts. At the end of the three-year period, you can continue to work until ten years and eight years later, and then the independent portal is allowed. According to the seniors, during the apprenticeship, thousands of authentic and fake antiques were obtained every year, and a large amount of market experience was accumulated from practice. Gradually became an expert by buying and selling.
2. The growth process of collectors
Growing from a businessman to a collector is another way to learn antiques. For example, An Siyuan, Zhang Zongxian, Xu Zhengfu, etc., they have all been antique dealers in the past, and they have all gone through decades of buying and selling market practice process, and finally grown into professional collectors.
Such collectors have a very good eye, are very accurate about the market price of antiques, and they rely on their own eyesight to collect antiques. In particular, it is necessary to understand which antiques are good and rare, and at the same time have the potential and prospect of appreciation. They went from buying and selling merchants to collectors because they had experienced thirty or fifty years of market practice, saw more, bought more, and sold more, and finally grew into collectors.
3. Steal antique knowledge
The antiques industry has become an expert by stealing from itself. When I first started school, I often visited stalls and antique shops, but I was not in a hurry to buy them. Especially when the market encounters others to discuss the authenticity of antiques, or when trading, when communicating about the age of antiques and prices, beginners eavesdrop on the side, see, remember, and understand the basic connoisseur knowledge of various antiques. Through frequent access to the market, you will gradually get to know some business connoisseurs, and after contact and exchange, you can learn a lot of knowledge about industry rules, appreciation, and counterfeiting. When you have accumulated some experience, you will start to buy some cheaper genuine products for research and confirmation. Slowly master the ability to identify authenticity.
Another way to steal is to peep next to others when they are trading, and if they find that the connoisseur has not made a deal, after walking away, immediately buy this unsold antique, which is called (borrowing eyes). In the market, it is possible to borrow the eyes of a connoisseur to buy antiques, but this requires beginners to take the initiative to enter the market. Because the industry does not want anyone to listen or observe when exchanging transactions, worrying that third parties will hear information such as price, authenticity and appreciation of knowledge, scholars are required to be cautious and cautious.
4, "drink goods" to learn antiques
The so-called "drinking goods" means that when you go to the countryside or alleys, you buy antiques from door to door, and after you buy them at a cheap price, you sell them to hanging shops (shops that sell old goods and rags) or antique shops. After a long period of buying and selling goods, I gradually understood the authenticity and price, and understood which store bought what. After seven or eight years of trading practice, I slowly grew into an expert who understands the truth and falsehood and knows the price. However, this method will inevitably lead to the experience of buying fake money or selling leaks, and through several years of buying and selling practice, you can gradually accumulate a lot of appreciation experience. This method of learning can also become an expert.
5. The learning method of delivery
The method of learning is to buy antiques from all over the country and sell them to the Forbidden City or the cultural relics acquisition department. Earn money through receiving deliveries and gaining experience. At the time of delivery, the acquisition department occasionally explains what is true and what is false. What to acquire, what not to acquire. From this practice, I slowly learned the knowledge of antiques and gradually became an expert. But this method of learning was applicable thirty years ago, because at that time, private trading was not allowed, only sold to the public, so there were relatively many real antiques. After the reform and opening up in the 1980s, shops were allowed, and there were gradually fewer public antiques sold, and this way of learning was also less.
6. The teacher guides the learning
The so-called teacher guidance, that is, the teacher takes the students into the market to carry out the actual trading guidance, because the teacher understands the merchants in the market, knows which shop has the real, the antiques on the road, and also understands the eyesight and appreciation level of the merchants. Through several years of teaching by example, students gradually understand the market, understand the rules, know how to trade and identify the true and false. This method of learning requires that teachers must have theoretical and practical experience and have the ability to interpret. In particular, teachers are required to be knowledgeable, have good character, are not conservative, and are honest.
The above are the various learning methods that have grown into experts and collectors in the antique business and Tibetan circles, and we can find a regular experience from them, that is, we must enter the market to buy and sell, and we must have zero-distance contact with physical objects. And more hands-on authenticity, master the characteristics and standards of genuine products, and then compare with fakes, so as to find flaws and evidence of fakes, this learning and practice process is very important.
However, there are some incorrect learning methods at present, such as: reading books to learn, we are not saying that the study of book theory is not right, but that we can only learn from books the shape, style, changes in artistic expressions of different eras, as well as museum collections with typical and representative characteristics of the times, this kind of learning can only stay on the surface perception, and must not learn from the photos of library collections and book materials to distinguish between true and false, this way of learning is very wrong. Moreover, this learning method is also impossible to master the ability to identify authenticity, because it is impossible to feel the actual effects and micro-characteristics of the real thing, so it is impossible to grasp the standard of the actual authenticity.
Some collectors rely on the traditional essentials of counterfeiting in books. We say that this learning method is also flawed, because the counterfeiting technology is updated very quickly, and they will always carry out targeted forgery according to the key points of counterfeiting in the book. And many of the essentials are no longer suitable for the contemporary market, so we must also adjust the idea of identifying falsification at any time, knowing that the theoretical falsification essentials in books are unchanged. If you rigidly apply the essentials of the book, it is very likely to cause the reversal of true and false right and wrong. If the standard of truth and falsehood is misled, it cannot be changed and saved, and it will end in failure.
In short, collecting antiques is not a casual reading of books, listening to theoretical training courses, watching TV collection programs, you can easily collect on the market. To know that learning antiques is a professional routine, first of all, to find the right way, because the real experts never open up, do not take the initiative to teach, so rely on beginners themselves in the market to find connoisseurs, led by connoisseurs into the market. This is very, very important for beginners, once you choose the wrong path and are brainwashed by the wrong concept of collection, it will be difficult to return to the right way of collecting.
Collecting is a very deep learning or discipline, so in the current "pile" of thousands of antiques in the country, a few such people can be found. The more "entering the industry" and the less "getting started" is the current situation of the entire collection industry. Originally, I wanted to play with antiques, but instead I was played with by "antiques". Among them, the sour, sweet and bitter, only the collector's body "taste".
Antique identification techniques
Play collection to have a unique vision, but also to learn flexible identification, today's treasure treasure xiaobian to tell you about the antique identification skills.
Observe the pulping party: the pulp is also known as "black lacquer ancient", it is in the long years because of dust, sweat, the player's hand, or buried water immersion, long-lasting mozi, and even the air ray crossing, layer by layer, gradually formed the surface shell. It is pleasantly slick and the light is calm, telling you that this thing has aged and reveals a warm old atmosphere. It is exactly in contrast to the piercing "thief light", impetuous tone, and dry texture of the newly baked new goods. Therefore, every old thing must have a pulp, and observing the oldness of the pulp is the simplest first small method of antique identification.
Age characteristics judgment method: Each antique will have its age, then each era will have some specific characteristics, which is the most basic identification of antiques.
Scientific instrument identification method: The identification of scientific instruments should be said to be the most professional method at present. However, the appraisal unit of scientific instruments should choose a professional and authoritative relevant institution.