Twenty years ago, I was originally a scavenger who walked the streets and alleys, went to the mountains and went to the countryside, and collected rags everywhere. At one point, a lonely old man sold me dozens of ancient coins at a low price, and he said that he was old and it was useless to keep them, so I asked me to keep them, so I gladly accepted.
At that time, I didn't know anything about the antique industry, and I thought that the ancient coins that the old man sold me must be worthless, at most they were just for fun and appreciation, and had no value. When I got home, I poured out these ancient coins and looked at them, and found that they were all Qianlong Tongbao and five or six Yongzheng Tongbao.
I thought about it for a while, and it dawned on me that these ancient coins should be very precious, after all, the Yongzheng Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty were both famous figures!
As I expected, when I took a Yongzheng Tongbao to the antique market to ask the vendors, he looked at me, looked at the ancient coins carefully, and finally pretended to be careless and offered me a high price of 90 yuan a piece. After tasting the sweetness of antiques, I was out of control and decided to give up the work of collecting broken copper and iron, and collect antiquities everywhere, as a hobby of collecting, and at the same time, I can profit from it, so why not?
Until now, I have acquired more and more antiquities, many of which are worthless, and cannot be sold at all, and in the end I lost a mess, looking at these antiques that cannot be sold, my heart hurts so much that I am dripping blood.
These ancient furniture, in the eyes of people who like to collect antiquities, still have a little bit of value, but in the eyes of ordinary people, they are just a pile of waste materials. Today's ancient furniture, in the eyes of insiders, what they want is some fine products, and it is impossible for them to spend that unjust money to buy ordinary goods. In the eyes of the layman, it is even more difficult, and they have no interest in these antique furniture. Therefore, these general goods I purchased have no market at all, and they waste money and energy in vain, and they also occupy space.
The ancient porcelain in this room is as precious to me as the treasure of the Golden House. Except for me who can enter this room at will, no one in the house is allowed to enter or leave at will, after all, I am afraid that they will accidentally break the porcelain, and it will be more than worth the loss. It's a pity that I treat porcelain as treasures, but others treat them as urns. Nowadays, no one cares about ordinary ancient porcelain, and some people who want to buy it are holding the mentality of picking up leaks, and the price offered is unacceptable, so my porcelain is destined to lose money.
Everyone should know the story of buying and returning pearls, which means buying a box containing pearls and returning the pearls to the seller. As you can see from this story, some boxes are very popular with some people. Therefore, I spent more than 100 yuan at that time to buy these old tin cigarette boxes. Now everyone is very smart, no one wants to spend money to buy these rotten iron boxes, and give them to others for free, maybe others are not rare!
These tiger hats and tiger shoes of the Qing Dynasty were luxury goods at that time, and only the children of rich and noble families could wear them. Now that I think about it, did I make a mistake at that time, and why did I accept these old items that had no market? I can't sell them, I can't use them, and I will feel bored after watching them for a long time, and I've wasted my money in vain.
Because of my greed and desire to make more money with antiques, I gave up the industry of collecting copper and iron, and chose to buy the antique industry, which eventually led to my loss. I used to be a rag collector, and now I'm still the one who "collects rags", but the ending is completely different.