Guangdong TV has made Wang Xinhua's name enter thousands of households, and he has been modestly saying that he needs to keep learning and making progress. Looking back on his life, it is not difficult to find that his life seems to have been inextricably linked with cultural relics and antiques, or more precisely, he never left the industry as an adult.
Today, let's walk into this leading figure in China's treasure industry and share his growth path.
He started with two CCB 1 yuan commemorative coins, and collected nearly 1, pieces from stamps to porcelain and antiques, with a preliminary estimated value of tens of millions of yuan. He is 56-year-old Wang Xinhua (pictured), and he is a famous "leak-finding expert" in the collection field of Wuhan.
Buy imitations and gain knowledge
At first, Wang Xinhua, a stamp player, didn't know the market, and he was often cheated. After many losses, Wang Xinhua spent three hours every night teaching himself stamp collecting knowledge, and participated in many stamp exhibitions or exchange activities inside and outside the province, observing and learning, persevering, and gradually becoming an expert from a novice.
In p>1998, he bought a beautiful teapot in Wuhan. After appreciation by experts, it was known that it was an imitation. "The real thing is obviously not easy to buy. It is better to buy some imitations and learn more identification knowledge." Wang Xinhua faced this matter with a positive attitude.
In the interview, he took out two small bowls and told the reporter, "Those who don't understand them are the same, and those who know them can see knowledge. You can see who is real and who is fake by the words on the bottom of the bowl, the patterns on the surface of the bowl and the manufacturing process."
Wandering the stalls and "picking up" the baby
Anyone familiar with Wang Xinhua knows that he keeps the habit of wandering the stalls every day and always succeeds in "picking up the leaks". Pointing to a piece of porcelain, he told reporters, "I bought this in the second-hand market in Guangdong in 2. At that time, I spent 18 yuan, and now it is worth at least several hundred thousand yuan." Wang Xinhua said that this knowledge is valuable experience accumulated by his long-term reading and exchanges with collectors.
Wang Xinhua's success in "finding the missing" is inseparable from research. Once, he traveled thousands of miles to Fujian to consult a collector for an archaic character on a piece of porcelain. After years of unremitting academic research and continuous exploration, he has gradually become a well-known figure in the Tibetan community in Wuhan.
follow the market and turn to the direction
in p>1998, Wang Xinhua predicted that the information age would make stamp trading increasingly saturated, so he turned his collection focus to porcelain and antiques. Over the past 1 years, his collection has been increasing year by year, and nearly a thousand pieces have been collected so far, with a conservative estimate of the value of 1 million yuan.
Today, Wang Xinhua's collection includes a large plate of painted red for the imperial dining room in Qing Dynasty, which he spent ten thousand yuan to buy, and even the first stamp in the world, the British "black penny", which he won in the auction.