Chapter 946

"Yes, it does."

Chu Chen said: "there are many ways to draw slides. I will simply say two ways. One is to put the real product under the glass, cover it with rice paper, and then shine the slide from bottom to top. The counterfeiter will draw gourd according to the light and shade of yin and Yang."

"What's more, you can print out the pictures on the photo or pictorial with a slide, project them on the rice paper, and then the counterfeiter will draw them according to the pictures. If it's a calligraphy work, you should first outline it with a pen, and then fill it with ink. With these two methods, as long as the imitation is in place, it can also make the effect of confusing the real with the fake. "

"Of course, fake is fake, and there is a gap between it and the real one. For example, this calligraphy work has less charm compared with the real one. If it is put together with the real one, it can be compared."

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Qi Baofu sighed and said, "now there are many ways to make fake antiques. I think I should really recharge the battery in the future."

Chu Chen said: "Lao Qi, you are right in this idea. Although there are many ways of counterfeiting in the collection field, many of them, no matter how superb, can always find flaws and problems by careful observation and analysis. But all this is based on your knowledge and experience. "

In the past, if someone else said something like this to Ji Baofu, he would surely go in one ear and out the other. But today, he encountered two methods of counterfeiting that he had never heard of, which shocked his heart. In addition, these words came from Chu Chen, so he hastened to say that he would keep them in mind.

Next, Chu Chen appreciated the rest of the things, and found that all of them were fakes, and they were all made by the latest scientific means, which could be imitated by the fake and the real. This kind of thing, let alone Qi Baofu, could be seen by some experienced old players.

Hearing this result, Qi Baofu didn't know what to say. How bad was his luck to meet this chance? At the same time, he finally made up his mind to make his basic skills in antiques solid before collecting them.

Seeing Qi Baofu's dejected appearance, Chu Chen could only shake his head secretly. In the final analysis, it was Qi Baofu's problem. If he hadn't learned a lesson all the time, he would not have spent so much money. I hope he could really hear what he said just now.

Thinking of this, Chu Chen simply used his powers to check all the collections in his room. He could learn some experience from these fake things, which would not help him.

"Well?" At the end of the inspection, Chu Chen was stunned. Then he said, "Lao Qi, I'll help you to look at these things in the room."

Qi Baofu opened his mouth and was ready to say that Chu Chen was not bothered, but he was still a little unwilling. He said with thanks, "Mr. Chu, please."

Chu Chen waved his hand to show that he was not polite. Then he looked at them one by one. Of course, he had checked these things with his powers in advance, but now it's just a show. Therefore, the process of identification seems to be a little fast. However, Qi Baofu now believes in Chu Chen very much, and he knows what his things are, which is not surprising.

Slowly, Chu Chen went to the thing that surprised him just now. It was a pile of copper coins. After he searched for several copper coins, he said softly.

Hearing this, Qi Baofu was slightly stunned, and then trotted over, followed by Fang Jinbo.

"Miss Chu, did you find something?"

Chu Chen carefully observed what he had in his hand, and then said with a smile, "Lao Qi, you are so lucky that you even got a" Xianfeng treasure "with a" Baoquan as the 50 "carving mother."

"Ah! Is it really a carving mother Qi Baofu's face was full of surprise when he heard this.

"It's not true. If you don't believe it, you can see for yourself." Chuchen handed the coin to Qi Baofu with a smile.

Diao mu, also known as Zuqian, does not really participate in the circulation and exchange, but is only a coin shaped mold used in the process of sand casting.

In our country, the earliest method of casting money was to carve a mold directly on the brick and stone, then to make a mother mold with copper and stone, and then to cast a large number of sub molds with the mother mold. Fan casting method was still used until Song Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the method of mother coin turning sand had completely replaced the method of fan casting. This method continued for nearly a thousand years, and it was not replaced by machine stamping method until the end of Qing Dynasty.

The making process of the carving mother is not simple. Every time the coin is cast, the coin Bureau needs to carve the pure ivory into a coin sample according to the style of the coin to be cast, and then pass the examination and approval of the competent department. Then, the skilled craftsmen in the copper shop with qualification carve the coin shaped mould with small square hole or small round hole with refined copper (not pure copper, but copper alloy with reasonable proportion), which is called Zuqian or diaozu.

At that time, only skilled craftsmen were able to carve high-quality ancestral coins. There was no sand hanging in the process of impression, thus forming a smooth money mold. The quasi carving mother can only be used after being approved by the Qian Bureau, and the piercing process, known as "golden mouth", must be completed by the Qian Bureau craftsman, so that it can be used as a secondary mold for impression casting, in the form of mother coin.Then, through the impression of mother money, a large number of currency was formally cast.

Considering that there will be several times of mold shrinkage in the production process from the carving mother to the mother coin and then to the circulating coin, and the polishing process after casting will also lead to the reduction of size and weight, the carving mother will leave processing allowance, and its size is significantly larger than that of the officially circulating currency. The whole process of currency casting is a process of continuous weight loss.

Because of this, Diao Mu is very precious. Moreover, at that time, the sculptors were strictly controlled in the hands of the relevant personnel of the money Bureau, and few of them flowed out. Coupled with the vigorous search of collectors in the past century, it is difficult to find new sculptors to the point. Most of the existing sculptors either flowed out of overseas or donated to major museums.

The carved mother in the market is as rare as the star Phoenix, which has become the target of Quanyou and collectors.

Of course, because of the rarity of copper coins, there are also "high and low" points. Just like Qi Baofu's "Xianfeng treasure" carrying "Baoquan as fifty", because of its special historical meaning and quantity, it has always been sought after by Tibetan friends.

In the early days of Xianfeng, because the world was in chaos at that time, the Qing government was extremely difficult in finance, so it decided to cast a lot of money. As a result, stealing and casting surged in the market. Even if the Qing court ordered a strict investigation, it could not be stopped. Then dangbaidang 50daqian reduced the amount of money because of the poor circulation among the people and the serious devaluation.

The format of Xianfeng's big coins is complicated and the amount of money cast is not much. Therefore, its carved mother, mother coins and sample coins are extremely rare. Many of them are collected by major museums, while others are spread abroad. According to incomplete statistics, there are only three pieces in the private collection of the mainland so far, which shows its precious degree.

Chu Chen didn't expect that Qi Baofu still had such a good thing here. Moreover, the carving mother's calligraphy is grand, the pen is full of Li's meaning, and the shape is more common. It's very rare to be a fifty dollar carving with exquisite craftsmanship and good preservation.

Qi Baofu couldn't put down playing with this carving mother, with a happy face and even more words in his mouth. He didn't expect that he was very happy in his heart.

Chuchen said with a smile: "Lao Qi, you are so careless. Even such treasures are directly piled here. If you sell them together with these copper coins one day, you can't regret it?"

With a smile, Qi Baofu said sheepishly: "in fact, these copper coins were transferred to me by a friend with poor eyesight. I always only regard them as ordinary copper coins. Who knows that there are sculptors in them."

Yuan Yu, the friend Qi Baofu said, also lives in this community. Like Qi Baofu, he is an antique lover, but he doesn't have the financial ability of Qi Baofu. Moreover, his wife is in charge of the economy in his family. He has to save a little money secretly to buy antiques.

In fact, he has no bad hobby, and his wife doesn't support him to buy antiques, but his eyesight is as bad as Qi Baofu's, and he bought a fake every three or five times. Like Qi Baofu, his family didn't listen to what he said, so his wife became angry, and set how much money he could only buy in a month. If he had more, he would return it anyway It can't be deducted with next month's money.

This is how these copper coins came to Qi Baofu's hands.

After talking about the source of the things, Qi Baofu scratched his head and said with a smile, "I don't know how to say it. I finally found a big leak, but I found it from my friend."

Chuchen said with a smile, "OK, what are you going to do? Give it back to him? "

"Of course it's impossible!" Qi Baofu shook his head and said, "brother, I'm clear. He sold this carving mother to me. I didn't pay for it. Besides, with his character, I will give it back to him, and he will not accept it. Then he must have been choking on it. In the long run, it will certainly affect our friendship. It's better to compensate him in other ways than that. "

Chu Chen agreed with Baofu that friendship had better not be affected by money, or it will change sooner or later, so there will be a close brother to settle the accounts. When it comes to this, Qi Baofu's heart will not be happy. If his friends don't accept it, his heart will not be happy. It's better not to say that.

Some friends may say that Qi Baofu is not broad-minded enough. Since he is a friend, what's wrong with him. That's right, but Qi Baofu is an ordinary person after all. How many ordinary people don't care about things worth hundreds of thousands? If you return this time, will you return or not return millions of things next time?

Therefore, Qi Baofu would rather compensate his friends in other ways than let this matter become a barrier between the two sides.