In the mainland collection circle, Ma Weidu is a figure that must be mentioned, because his collection can be called one of the best in terms of quantity and quality, in addition to his first private museum in New China, which contains his treasures over the years. However, this museum has a lot of fate, at the beginning of the income can not make ends and was almost closed, fortunately Ma Weidu's son returned from abroad in time to take over, after reversing the profit and loss to survive, now the museum can welcome a lot of tourists from home and abroad every year, the income is not cheap.
Ma Weidu's museum is called "Guanfu", which means to look at it over and over again, which is Ma Weidu's own understanding of cultural relics, because the cultural relics are rich in too much, and only by constantly looking carefully can we feel the deep historical precipitation and cultural accumulation from it.
Guanfu Museum has welcomed many tourists, but the most special is a foreigner, this foreigner is an antique dealer, named An Siyuan, although he has a Chinese name, but An Siyuan is an american, he has been operating antiques for decades, in the West has the reputation of "the godfather of antiques", but such a famous person, how can he come to Guanfu this private museum?
Things have to start from the 1990s, when An Siyuan was already famous overseas, and Ma Weidu was just a budding newcomer in the antiques industry, and he was not even a master in terms of collection, but because of a visit, Ma Weidu visited An Siyuan's home with friends in the collection industry, and Ma Weidu later recalled: The house was full of antiques, each of which was at least a hundred years old, if it were not for someone telling me that this was a private residence, I thought it was a museum.
It was precisely because this visit completely calmed Ma Weidu, so he tried his best to get to know him, but unfortunately An Siyuan was too famous, and Ma Wei did not even meet him. Time passed, ten years passed, Ma Weidu's Guanfu Museum was on the right track, the fame gradually increased, even An Siyuan came to China to visit, Ma Weidu was also surprised after learning about it, and the two ushered in their first meeting.
The collection of the Guanfu Museum surprised An Siyuan, but halfway through the visit, An Siyuan said a word, a sentence that surprised and frightened Ma Weidu, An Siyuan turned to Ma Weidu at that time and said seriously: I want to buy all your collection here, are you willing to sell? Price is not a problem.
This sentence made Ma Weidu a surprise at first, this is the first time he heard that someone wanted to buy all his collections, which shows that An Siyuan recognized his own collection, and Ma Weidu did not doubt An Siyuan's financial resources, after all, the antique industry has been traversing the antique industry for so many years, even if his own antiques are estimated at tens of billions, An Siyuan can definitely take it out, but Ma Weidu thought about it and scared out a cold sweat, antiques are the wealth left by the old ancestors, if he sends them all to foreigners, I am afraid that the entire collection community will poke his own spine.
Thinking of Ma Weidu at this level, he only said 7 words at that time: My things cannot be sold! An Siyuan was not surprised, and said slowly: You are not selling, but my price is not high enough, Ma Weidu laughed twice, and did not mention this matter again.
It seems that Ma Weidu still prefers fame to money.
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