Chapter 370: The Rosewood Expert (1/2)
Chapter 370: The Rosewood Expert
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Early the next day, a piece of neas circulating a in the hotel:
”The Vendetta Storage Coe units The company was surprised and contacted a Chinese rosewood expert to appraise the authenticity and value of the furniture”
”What’s evenis that the rosewood expert has confirave it a fairly high value The storage company will hence withdraw those units from today’s auction”
Li Du heard this while he was having his continental breakfast He called up the storage coainst the withdrawal of the units put up for auction!”
Storage coht to withdraw units put up for auction because some tenants would pay their balances on the last day possible Such units would, therefore, need to be withdrawn
However, the storage company was bewildered by the call They had never intended to withdraw any unit from the auction ”hello sir, ill not withdraw any unit froruntled Li Du ”We came to Holbrook because there wereseven units, that will defeat our purpose of coed the treasure hunters residing in the sae company to protest We can’t let them do this!”
The treasure hunters followed suit by taking out their phones and calling the storage coested in no time
In the hotel next door, the Ricks, Frank, and York all ca out to attend the auction
When they entered the hotel restaurant, they saw a ether
Rick did not knoho the Chinese e’s Operations Manager
The Chinese man was almost finished with his meal There was tons of food served on the table; there was even a bottle of good quality Mexican tequila
After finishi+ng the last piece of toast, the ot up and said, ”Mr Powell, it was nice toto you Goodbye”
Mr Powell smiled cheerfully and said, ”I’m happy to e in this area”
Mr Liu laughed, ”Oh, no, no, you think too highly of me I just told you what I know about our Chinese architecture and the beauty of Chinese furniture I’lad that I could be of help”
Both ed man left the restaurant
Rick stared at Mr Liu’s back for a while He then exchanged a glance with his son and whispered, ”Go, follow hi on”
As Lil’ Rick left, Rick walked up to Mr Powell and laughed, ”Hey Powell,you here What are you up to?”
Poiped his mouth with a napkin and replied, ”Breakfast Someone treated me to a nice breakfast The food’s not bad”
Frank came over as well ”Mr Powell?” he asked ”Nice to meet you Let me introduce myself: my name is Frank Boll, a professional treasure hunter”
Powell shook hands with hi hi ”What?” Powell frowned ”Who spread that news? Okay, let et back first and we’ll see how to deal with it”
After hanging up the phone, he said to Frank and Rick, ”My apologies, so’s co both of you, let’s talk some other time See you around”
”See you around,” Rick smiled politely and nodded
Powell left in a hurry Frank looked to Rick and asked, ”What happened?”
Rick blinked and said, ”Mr Boll, do you knohy so many treasure hunters came here to attend this auction?”
Frank was a veteran treasure hunter: besides wanting to deal with Li Du, he had also coe Therefore, when Rick threw hiht be soe units?”
Rick nodded ”Yes, there’s soet further inforany furniture!”
Frank asked cautiously, ”What’s wrong with it? I only have soeneral information Do you have details?”
”Yes I contacted the coot hold of so Rick, ”everyone has their territory, and Arizona ishis abilities He sneered, ”And?”
”And I handed the photos to a ht that the all the furniture were imitations”
Almost every citizen in the United States was a collector of so Furniture collection was one of the any furniture was an important branch
Over ten million historical Chinese artifacts were scattered around the world in places like Europe, America, japan, Southeast Asia, and so on Ancient Chinese any furniture could be seen in many historical museuland ownedand Qing Dynasties than the Palace Museum in China, which still owned an impressive 10,000 pieces of ancient furniture
For exa Dynasty was showcased in the National Museum of Denmark A Danish collector had successfully bid for it in Sotheby’s auction house Ultimately, the historic relic was donated to the museum
Unlike other national treasures, the bulk of one to the West had not been stolen, but sold Emperor Wanli’s scented rosewood throne was one such instance
There was also a legend that a lot of caves had been used for storing treasures in the western parts of Ao It was said that there were tens of thousands of pieces of ancient Chinese furniture stored in caves with cool teenerations
Whether it was the museum, or the caves in the United States, their collection would be the faards to , China was not in a position to ask for such artifacts to be returned The dispersion of rowth and brought about an increase of any furniture collectors had very deep knowledge on the subject, and were able to tell genuine ones from the imitated counterparts Rick had contacted a professional to help hiany furniture in the unit up for auction
He had originally concluded that the pieces of furniture were all knockoffs But after hearing the Chinese man an to waver in his decision
He was also unsure because the collector had told hiive an absolute conclusion just by looking at the pictures In addition, as the collector was an amateur, the conclusions he’d made were not authoritative
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Chapter 371: With All Efforts
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After some time, Lil’ Rick came back