Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 481 Auction

The value of a document is closely related to the content recorded above, but it is also highly related to the carrier of the document. For example, if a medieval document is well preserved, it can easily sell for thousands or even tens of thousands of euros.

But if it is an imitation in the 20s and 40s, only the high-quality goods copied with the same material can be sold for hundreds or thousands of euros.Just copying the content of the document without making it old may only cost tens of euros.

Of course, the difficulty of selling these things is also very different. If it is the original version, it is very easy to find a buyer, and it can be sold at a premium when it is sold. Those modern imitations are not only difficult to sell but also sold at a discounted price.

According to the data, the warehouses are basically the cheapest imitations from the archaeological point of view, so naturally it is unlikely to attract those professional antique dealers.

But even so, it is not easy to participate in this auction. After all, as an official auction, it is naturally impossible to mess up the situation like a private auction, especially since they also know that these things are easy to attract new organizations.

After all, they are libraries in the name of the country, which represent the image of the country from a certain perspective, so the library does not want to bear the notoriety of providing items to extreme right-wing organizations.

Therefore, they have a strict identity verification process for those who participate in the auction, to ensure that no notorious New Spicy Crisp organization will obtain the sacred object in their eyes from this place.

Fortunately, Liang En is now a well-known historian and antique dealer, plus the series of things he did in the Czech Republic before, so even though the registration period has passed, he still got admission to the auction coupon.

I have to say that doing everything according to the rules as much as possible, and accumulating more reputation is a very valuable thing. Although this practice will indeed lose a lot of short-term benefits, if the timeline is extended, various benefits will be gradually reflected .

For example, some occasions where the status of participation is restricted can not be entered as long as you have money. At this time, the reputation accumulated is very valuable, and a larger contact surface means more opportunities and greater opportunities. benefit.

"It's thanks to you this time." Police Officer Burke said seriously. It was the third day they came to Prague, which was when the auction started. Liang En and the two police officers went to the library for the A hall where the auction opens.

According to their previous plan, the two police officers would disguise themselves as Liang En's staff and enter the auction site to observe whether the target was inside, while Joan of Arc and Fan Meng would hide their weapons in a nearby car and be ready to respond at any time.

In addition, Liang En also borrowed Burke's channel to transport his three ravens.Because drones are too conspicuous in crowded places like urban areas, but creatures like ravens are not easy to attract attention.

Ravens carry pocket cameras on their bodies. For these highly intelligent little guys, they have long learned how to hide these cameras in front of humans, and only take pictures in secret until the critical moment.

According to their judgment, although the museum will carry out corresponding identity verification work, an old far-right organization like the Thule Association should have a way to sneak in.

After all, even an organization like the Golden Association, which has been staring at the Thule Association, has at most figured out less than 1/3 of the internal structure of the other party, so the possibility of the Czech side recognizing this group of people is almost zero.

But this also has an advantage, that is, the Czech side will basically filter out those messy guys, making it easier for Liang En and the others to find the real target.

If the group of far-right groups all joined the auction, there might be confusion. From this perspective, identification is still valuable.

Because there is a requirement for the identity of the buyer, there are not many people in today's auction, and there are only a dozen or so people sitting sparsely in a multi-functional hall that does not look large.

When the time was up, a host walked in, and then turned on the multimedia equipment in the hall to announce that the auction would start immediately.

It may be because the people hosting the auction are library staff rather than professional auctioneers, so the auction is also very different from ordinary auctions.

There is not much content to arouse everyone's emotions here, it is just a simple display of each item for everyone to bid, and then it is so simple that the highest bidder wins.

Of course, even if they are not professionals, they know that good things must not be placed first, otherwise no one will buy other things, so the auctions are only some books of little value.

These decades-old books are far from antique.At most, it can only be said to be second-hand old books.Fortunately, Europe pays more attention to copyright, so the market for these second-hand books is not bad.

Therefore, when these books were released one shelf after another, several people who were obviously second-hand book dealers started bidding very actively.

However, I also observed that there is a bottom line in the bidding between them. Whenever the price rises to a certain level, some people will voluntarily give up. It is obvious that these merchants are very rational.

After all, the profit in the second-hand book industry is not high. For merchants in these professions, they must control the auction price to a certain quantity limit, otherwise they may not make money at all with the transportation and sales costs.

After more than an hour, the previous auction of old books finally ended, and then the library began to auction the most important Heydrich collection of books in this auction without arranging any rest time.

The auction has been in full swing since the very beginning. According to Liang En's previous valuation, this item should be worth between 120-150 million euros. For this matter, he borrowed a sum of money from a few friends.

But now the situation is obviously out of control, because Liang En found that although the starting price was only 80 euros, the price increased to 200 million after just three increases, and it continued to soar.

"Now we can confirm one thing, that is, the person who bought it must not be an antique dealer. Because the price now far exceeds the price of antiques of the same level."

When the auction price exceeded 350 million euros, Liang En whispered his judgment to Burke beside him.

"Although Spicy Crunch is indeed very anti-human, the market for things related to them is not small, and some people specialize in collecting these things, but antique dealers generally don't raise their prices so high."

"That is to say, the person who is offering this price should be buying it for himself, and he is buying it for some special reason." Burke stared at the three people who were asking prices one after another and nodded.

"I have used the surveillance camera on my body to take pictures of the current situation and uploaded them, hoping to obtain information about these people, and then conduct further screening."

"Can this analysis be completed before the auction ends?" Liang En asked in a low voice. "If the auction is not finished before the end of the auction, it will be too difficult for us to track them down."

"Don't worry, there is absolutely no problem at this point." Burke nodded seriously. "Actually, I sent those photos as soon as I came in, and more than an hour was enough for them to investigate the identities of everyone on the field."

(End of this chapter)