Treasure Hunt America

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While working hard to learn the knowledge of antique identification, Jin Muchen is also working hard to do another thing, that is to get familiar with the antique market in New York as soon as possible.

In New York, in addition to the high-end antique shops in Manhattan, there are also many small markets for antiques. These small markets are similar to the antique distribution centers like Panjiayuan in Beijing. Except for some fixed shops along the street, there are also Many come to set up street stalls on weekends. Although the scale is not as big as Panjiayuan, it has a strong American style.

These small antique markets are almost all located in Manhattan.

And New Yorkers gave these small markets a very interesting name, that is, Hell's Kitchen - the weekend market of Hell's Kitchen.

This Hell's Kitchen Market, which is always a place for antique players to visit, actually has three "dens": one is the 39th Street open-air market famous for antique furniture, decoration and clothing.

The second is Antique Garage on 25th Street, famous for antique jewelry and small objects.

The third is the West25thStreetMarket-West 25th Street Market, which is known for its high quality and low price.

Each of these three markets has its own characteristics, which can be said to be distinct. Every weekend, they are the favorite places for collectors in New York and the surrounding areas to visit.

Jin Muchen is no exception. Ever since he knew about such a market, he has become a frequent visitor to these markets. However, there is one thing he doesn't quite understand. Antiques, what does it matter.

But it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, Americans are so headstrong, they like to call them that, he doesn't need to know why, as long as he likes to go shopping.

During this time, Jin Muchen mainly visited the antique market on 39th Street. This market is also the largest of the three markets in Hell's Kitchen. It has a lot of things in it, and many people come to set up stalls every weekend.

This market is located at the large open-air market at the intersection of Ninth Street and Thirty-ninth Street, plus an entire thirty-ninth street, as well as a part of the extension, with hundreds of antique shops and stalls large and small.

There is a market every weekend, where all the old items are bought from all over the country and all over Europe, and some Chinese-style boutiques will appear from time to time.

During this period of time, Jin Muchen was wandering around almost every weekend, turning around the large and small antique shops here, not even the roadside stalls.

But he didn't find anything he liked. After all, there are a lot of European antiques here, and he doesn't quite understand many of them. He is studying frantically about European antiques recently, but he can only rely on him for this part. I can't rely on Fang Bo, and Fang Bo is not very familiar with this aspect.

So for him, visiting such antique shops and stalls is, on the one hand, learning the knowledge of antiques, and on the other hand, it is also a kind of tempering. It can happen every day.

But so far, his previous good luck seems to have been used up, and he has been shopping for several weeks without any decent harvest.

The vendors who set up stalls here and the shopkeepers of the antique shops are all as savvy as the money strings in Panjiayuan. Although good things are also put on the shelves, the price is definitely not low.

If you want to find out, you don't have that chance at all.

Although I didn't find anything good, the coffee at HK Coffee on the corner of 39th Street is good, which is an unexpected discovery.

The full name of HK Coffee is also Hell'sKitchen, which is the same as the name of a reality show on a certain American TV station. Jin Muchen doesn't know if the name of this coffee shop is related to the name of this antique market.

However, the shop's signature smoked fish eggs Benedict, and Mimosa, a drink mixed with orange juice and champagne, taste pretty good. Jin Muchen will have one every weekend before visiting here.

This weekend, Jin Muchen was still no exception. After getting up early, he greeted Fang Bo and went straight to 39th Street in Manhattan.

During this time, Candace seemed to be busy preparing for several exams, so the two did not have much time to meet each other, which gave Jin Muchen more time to study and study antique identification.

This time, Jin Muchen still chooses to take the subway to 39th Street. After all, it is too difficult to find a parking space in Manhattan, and even if you can find it, the parking fee here is so expensive that it hurts him.

At the entrance of 39th Street, there was already a lot of people here. Although it was only ten o'clock and the market had just started, collectors from all over New York had already entered.

Both sides of the street were crowded with small vendors from all over the world. The stalls were not very large, but they were similar in size to the small antique stalls on Hester Street that he had been to before.

However, most of these stalls are mainly selling antique furniture, and some are selling all kinds of vintage clothing.

Vintage clothing, the literal translation of Chinese is second-hand clothing, but this is only a literal meaning, and there is no such concept in the domestic antique circle.

But in the antique circle in the United States, this concept is very popular, but these second-hand clothing must be boutique, have historical value, have a historical orientation, and especially can represent a certain period and certain elements.

In a word with a bit of B, that is, it embodies a mature, timeless classic charm.

In the vernacular, it means that such clothes can be worn in the past, can be worn now, and can be worn in the future. They are not designed purely to cater to the fashion of the current season.

Like Audrey in the 50s. The skinny pants worn by Hepburn, Emilio in the 1960s. Pucci's botanical-print blouses and the Chanel dresses throughout the era were the standard vintage pieces.

Moreover, such a fine product must also be preserved in good condition, not dirty or messy.

Therefore, such a market is very popular with women. Every weekend, what Jin Muchen sees most on this street are those girls in fancy dress.

Some of these girls are models from big companies, some are even small stars, and even some American celebrities. Anyway, they are not the same as the women he saw on Hester Street before, and their quality is obviously higher. .

This can be regarded as adding some beautiful scenery to this antique street. Even if you go shopping for a day and don't receive anything you like, but being able to see these seductive beauties is enough to make people feel that the trip is worthwhile.

Jin Muchen walked aimlessly on this street with a cup of coffee in hand. Those antique furniture, to be honest, look very good. As soon as you touch it, you can tell that the materials are very good, and the carvings are exquisite. They are all from last year. good stuff.

But the price is not cheap, but these things are not what he wants. As for those vintage clothes, although they are all second-hand goods, because some clothes are either inlaid with gold, or inlaid with silver, or even more exaggerated, they are inlaid with diamonds. The pieces are also expensive.

Some of them don't have such special decorations, but because those clothes were worn by a famous person before, the asking price is even higher than those inlaid with gold and silver.

Therefore, even if Jin Muchen is willing, he is unable to acquire it.

Could it be that we have to go shopping for another day today? Seeing that it was already afternoon, and the market was about to end in a few hours, Jin Muchen felt a little unwilling.

Just as he sighed, he suddenly saw a figure that made him feel very familiar. After taking a closer look, Jin Muchen couldn't help but smile.

That's right, the guy who set up the stall in front was the acquaintance who made him the first pot of gold, the black man who exchanged Yongzheng pastel bowls for takeout with him.

It's really a place where we don't meet in life. Jin Muchen was thinking about whether he should go to his house again and see if there is a kettle for dogs to drink water, or a bathtub for bathing. I didn't expect this guy to appear in the here.

And this guy is now a stall owner, and his stall is mainly to buy some silverware.

Jin Muchen walked over with a smile, and began to look at the things in this stall. Unlike other stalls that buy silverware, the silverware in his stall is not too much, mainly some tableware, coffee pots, etc. The rest The ones are all the miscellaneous things~www.wuxiahere.com~ such as some old trees, or a few small ornaments carved from maple, etc. There are not many things, but it can be seen that each piece is a Boutique.

"Hey! Dude, what did you like? Just pick?"

The black stall owner came over to say hello enthusiastically, but he didn't recognize the guy in front of him, who was the one who delivered him takeout more than a month ago.

Originally, Jin Muchen came over and glanced at it casually, but just as the corner of his eyes swept past, a surprise appeared in front of him again unexpectedly.

There was a flash of silver light in front of him, and Jin Muchen was sure that he was not mistaken. There was a flash of silver light on the set of silver tea sets on the left side of the booth in front of them. Classic European-style tea set.

"Boss, bring me that tea set and show it to me."

The old black hurriedly brought the tea set to Jin Muchen, and as soon as Jin Muchen started to use it, he felt that the tea set was very heavy and seemed to be genuine.

After taking a closer look in front of him, the silver light on the three silver pots was brighter. Based on his experience, it was obvious that this was a set of antique tea sets, but he couldn't tell exactly what it was.

After all, during this period of time, although he was also crazily learning about antiques, most of them were about Chinese antiques. Although he also had some sketches of Western antiques, he just learned some fur.

"Man, you are really discerning. This is a set of silverware with a distinct Rococo style. It is an antique from the 18th century, and it comes from England..."