Hammer first showed Huang Xuan Aivazovsky's masterpiece "Ice on the Dnieper", which is also a Russian painter that Americans like more, but for Russians, this is This famous marine painter is known to almost everyone. But unfortunately, this painting already has an owner. In other words, if Huang Xuan takes it home, there will be two "Dnieper Glacier" paintings in his plane.
Seeing Huang Xuan gently shaking his head, Hammer took out another oil painting with an unchanging expression, "Picking Apples" created by Enatalia Goncharova in 1909, which is also an authentic work. Huang Xuan simply named him and said, "Mr. Hammer, do you have any paintings by Oleg Vassiliev?"
"Yes, let me look for it." The name Huang Xuan mentioned surprised Hammer a little. It was not a name that was well known to non-Russians.
"How about this "Before Sunset"." This is a contemporary oil painting. Huang Xuan nodded with satisfaction. According to Lorraine's estimate, this little guy weighing no more than 500 grams can be sold for 500,000 pounds, and shipping it The energy consumed will not exceed $5,000.
"Put it away for me." Huang Xuan said to Hans without even wanting to ask the price.
The veteran directly mentioned the oil painting, but Hammer stopped him in distress, beckoned a waiter to let him hold it, and then said: "Mr. Huang Xuan, the price of this painting is 800 US dollars, of course..."
"Do you need me to pay the bill now?" Huang Xuan interrupted.
"Of course not." Hammer had the small eyes of a businessman. He only glanced at Huang Xuan and said, "You can continue to choose."
Huang Xuan laughed twice and said: "I heard that you brought some Tsarist eggs?" Among the Russian artworks that Hammer brought to the United States, the most valuable ones are the Faberge eggs, which were created from 1886 , Faberge, the royal jeweler of the Russian royal family, makes an Easter egg for the queen every year. This unique egg inlaid with various precious jewelry has been sought after by countless people in later generations. However, at the beginning, each Faberge egg could only be sold for US$400 or US$500 at auction houses, but 70 years later, its lowest estimate was over US$1 million.
Hammer quickly took out 10 Easter eggs from the room. Although the 1900 World's Fair allowed people to see these classic Easter eggs, Americans during the Great Depression were skeptical of these artworks that may not necessarily maintain their value. Interested, it will take a few more years before anyone discovers the value of these Easter eggs.
To Huang Xuan's disappointment, only one of these Easter eggs disappeared from people's sight, and only these three can be taken home. Of course, the disappointment is only temporary. You only need 14 self-printed US dollars to get at least 10 million US dollars, and the energy consumed by transportation will not exceed 5 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Is there any better deal than this
With the help of Lorraine, Huang Xuan reported each name one by one. Soon, the number of waiters around me changed from 1 to 3, then 4...
When it got dark, Huang Xuan had selected more than 400 oil paintings and more than 70 pieces of jewelry. The principles for his selection are simple. Firstly, there is no duplication in P11, which is his own plane, at least there is no record of collection. Secondly, the price of transporting it is much lower than its selling price. Especially the latter, because many jewelry were inlaid with gold and silver and other ornaments, Huang Xuan had to reluctantly give them up - the consumption of gold and silver between planes was too great, and most of the time the gain outweighed the loss.
However, a small amount of gems and pearls will not increase the burden in this regard. Huang Xuan likes Faberge's works very much. He uses a large amount of ceramics, gems and other materials, which greatly reduces the energy consumption.
As for some valuable duplicate artworks, Huang Xuan was once tempted to take them home and collect them for himself. However, considering the energy consumption of the buffer zone, which may be very small, Huang Xuan still gave up. Instead of looking at these, he simply If you don’t understand something, it’s safer to hope.
After taking away the last item from the department store, Huang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief with a smile on his face, and said to Hammer, whose face was a little dark, "Let's settle the accounts." His tone was like eating a bowl of beef noodles in a noodle shop.
"The total amount is 7.8 million, 680 US dollars." The accountant next to him directly quoted the price. Among them, the higher price is jewelry. Compared with the products processed by unknown people, the name of the Russian royal collection will give it greater potential for appreciation. . Hammer looked at Huang Xuan with twinkling eyes, thinking to himself: If this guy can't pay...
"So much!" Huang Xuan really couldn't pay. His deposit in the bank currently only amounted to one million US dollars, but the cash in the plane channel was not convenient to withdraw immediately. He looked at Hammer, whose face was already dark and said: "I have It’s true that I didn’t bring enough money, but how about paying the deposit first?”
"The company's rule is 40% deposit." The little accountant next to him made the word 40% clear.
Huang Xuan smiled awkwardly, took out the deposit certificate issued by Chase from his shirt, and said: "I seem to only have 600,000, which is not enough..."
"That's enough." Seeing the copper deposit certificate, Hammer breathed a sigh of relief and said impatiently: "The deposit of one million US dollars is enough. When does Mr. Huang want to pick up these works of art? "
Hearing what Hammer said, Huang Xuan laughed dumbly. What he meant was that he couldn't take it now. He didn't care. He threw the deposit certificate to Hammer and said, "Let's go through the formalities together and leave the things with you first."
"Okay." Hammer agreed and relaxed at this time. Now in 191, the daily turnover of 7.8 million is only available in art and arms transactions.
Chase National Bank.
After Joseph completed the transfer procedures for Hammer and the latter said goodbye to Huang Xuan, Huang, the real banknote wholesaler, turned around and walked in with three more travel bags, each bag stuffed with 0 kilograms of green banknotes.
Chase Bank is known as a wholesale capital bank, but Joseph has never seen so much cash - using a more familiar exchange rate, before the US "Silver Acquisition Act" in 1944, one Chinese silver coin was only worth 6 cents, and a 100 kilogram A hundred-dollar bill is equivalent to 8.46 million silver dollars, which is equivalent to 1/4 of China's international surplus that year. Since the developed countries in the economic crisis are all on the gold standard, China, which was on the silver standard, entered the super market that year.
Hans was already somewhat immune to US dollar bills, but the 000 US dollars paid to him by Huang Xuan made him excited for a long time. On the contrary, these bundles of green banknotes gave people a completely different feeling.
Several bank ladies worked tirelessly counting banknotes that could kill someone, while Rockefeller hurried downstairs. He held Huang Xuan's hand cordially and said: "Mr. Huang, I was just going to find you." …”
"Oh?" Of course Huang Xuan knew what was going on. He waved to Hans and said, "Go and get the drawings from the car."
Rockefeller smiled and narrowed his eyes, but there were tens of thousands of airplane drawings, which could not fit in a car. He coughed lightly and said, "Mr. Huang, what is the price of this drawing?"
"Of course it won't be very high." Huang Xuan smiled and said: "I have prepared 100 drawings. You can find someone to take a look first. If you are interested, we will discuss the price." By then, I also went home. Huang Xuan thought so, picked up the coffee and drank it.
Rockefeller said a few polite words and left the room. Joseph handed the new deposit certificate to Huang Xuandao: "The total amount is 9.8074 million US dollars, Mr. Huang."
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