Chapter 371 370. Experts (3)

Very early the next day, a piece of news spread among the treasure hunters:

Mahogany furniture was found in Vendetta Warehouse Company. The company was surprised and contacted a Chinese mahogany expert to identify the authenticity and value of mahogany!

The more exciting news is that the mahogany experts in the warehouse have recognized the authenticity of the mahogany in the warehouse and given a very high valuation. Therefore, the warehouse company does not plan to auction these warehouses.

Li Du heard the news while having breakfast, and then called the auction acceptance office of the warehouse company, saying angrily: "We protest, the warehouse company cannot withdraw the warehouse that has been released!"

Warehouse companies can withdraw the warehouses put on the auction list, because some renters will be greedy for cheap and renew the contract on the last day of the contract expiration, and such warehouses will not be auctioned again.

But this time the warehouse company was very depressed. They didn't plan to withdraw the warehouses on the auction list, so they said: "Hi sir, we will not withdraw the warehouses that have been released..."

"You can't do this. We came to the auction because there are too many warehouses to be auctioned. If you withdraw seven warehouses, why should we participate?" Li Du said angrily.

Hans angrily said to the treasure hunter who was in the same hotel: "Everyone, call the warehouse company, we must not let them do this!"

The treasure hunters took out their mobile phones one after another, and then the auction hotline of the warehouse company was blown up.

In the restaurant of the hotel next door, Rick and his sons, Pol, York and others came down to have breakfast, and then they were going to participate in the auction.

Entering the restaurant, they saw a middle-aged Chinese man eating with a white man.

Rick didn't know this Chinese man, but he knew a white man who was the logistics director of the Vendetta Warehouse Company.

When the two parties arrived at the restaurant, the middle-aged Chinese had almost finished eating. There was a lot of food on the table, and there was also a bottle of good Mexican tequila.

After sweeping away a piece of stewed sticky veal, the Chinese middle-aged man stood up and said, "Mr. Powell, I am very glad to meet you. Our communication was very pleasant. Goodbye."

The Caucasian man also smiled happily, and said, "It's also nice to meet you, thank you, Mr. Liu, your knowledge is really profound."

The middle-aged Chinese said with a smile: "You are too good. I just know something about our Chinese architecture and furniture art. If I can help you, that would be great."

Finally, with a wave of his hand, the middle-aged man left the restaurant.

Rick stared at the back of the Chinese middle-aged man for a while, then winked at his son and said in a low voice, "Go, follow him and see what's going on."

Little Rick left, and he walked towards the white man, and said with a smile: "Powell, my old man, it's a coincidence to meet you here, what are you doing?"

Powell wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "Have breakfast, someone treated me to a great breakfast just now, it's really good."

Ball also came over and asked, "Mr. Powell? Nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. My name is Frank Ball, a professional treasure hunter..."

Powell shook hands with him, and he complimented him casually. At this time, the phone rang, and then he frowned and said, "What? Who sent the news? Well, let me go back and see how to deal with it."

After hanging up the phone, he said to Pol and Rick: "Sorry, two, our company had an accident, I have to go back quickly, it's nice to meet you, let's talk later."

"Let's talk later." Rick nodded with a smile on his face.

Powell left in a hurry, Pohl looked at Rick and said, "What's going on?"

Rick's eyes flickered a few times, and then he said, "Mr. Pole, do you know why this auction attracted so many people?"

Boer is an experienced treasure hunter, and he came this time for the warehouse auction, not just to show off to Li Du.

So when he heard Rick's words, he said, "Maybe there will be a batch of mahogany furniture in this auction?"

Rick nodded and said, "Yes, there is a batch of mahogany furniture, but I wonder if you have any further news? There is a problem with this batch of mahogany furniture!"

Bohr asked vigilantly, "What's the problem? I only got general information. Do you have any detailed information?"

Rick said: "Yes, I once contacted the warehouse keeper here and got some photos."

Speaking of this, he became a little proud: "You know, Frank, everyone has their own territory, and Arizona is mine."

Knowing that he was demonstrating to him, Boer sneered, "And then?"

Rick continued: "I then showed the photos to a mahogany collector who thought the furniture might be fake."

The United States is a country where all people collect. Furniture collection is one of the important branches, and mahogany furniture collection is an important branch of furniture collection.

Since the Opium War in 1840, more than 10 million pieces of Chinese cultural relics have been lost to countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan, and Southeast Asia. In many western history museums, Chinese classical mahogany furniture can be seen everywhere.

Even in museums in the United States and the United Kingdom, the storage of red sandalwood furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China exceeds that of the Forbidden City, and the Forbidden City has about 10,000 pieces of classical furniture.

From this we can see how much mahogany furniture has been collected by foreign countries.

In addition to museums, there is another interesting saying that many caves were dug in the western United States 100 years ago, and they stored nearly ten thousand pieces of classical Chinese furniture in these caves with constant temperature for future generations.

Of course, whether it is a museum or a cave in the western United States, the collections are all famous mahogany furniture, such as the huanghuali throne of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, which is in the Danish Museum.

However, unlike other national treasures, most mahogany furniture and handicraft products leaked to the West are not through robbers, but free trade and auctions.

Including the huanghuali throne of Emperor Wanli, which was bought by a Danish collector at Sotheby's auction and finally dedicated to the National Museum.

Therefore, in terms of mahogany collections, it is not convenient for China to come forward to ask for it back, which increases the popularity of related collections, and many collectors have been born.

But any collector of mahogany products must have a deep understanding of mahogany. Rick contacted such a person to help him analyze the authenticity of these mahogany furniture.

Originally, he had concluded that these mahogany furniture were fakes, but with the incident in front of him, he was no longer confident in his judgment.

Because the collector said that it is impossible to draw a very accurate conclusion from the photos. And the collector was also an amateur, and his conclusions were not very authoritative.