Antique is an industry that relies on eyesight to eat. Once it is misplaced or drilled, it is likely to lose everything and have greater risks. Therefore, people who are self-righteous and as blind as a bat are the most taboo in this line. Because they tend to make antiques simple, they don’t know how easy it is to get started just a few days after entering this industry. Today, let’s talk about the difficulty of getting started in antique shops, and see how far you are from getting started.
One difficulty: the guide teacher is difficult to find.
Many people think that self-study can learn all the knowledge of antique shops. However, in the field of antiques, reading and learning can only simply understand the names, ages and uses of some antiques in theory. If you want to make an actual collection, you can’t learn by reading books. The only way to go deep into the antique business is to get started under the guidance of experts, and then to mature gradually through the process of failure, summary, failure and summary.
In the field of antiques, antique dealers see more, handle more and buy more. In the long-term practice of buying and selling, we have accumulated rich experience. It can be said that antique dealers are the group with the best discerning eyes in the antique industry. However, in general, the expert merchants do not give identification to others, and the second does not bring students, which makes it difficult for those who have just started or want to find a teacher to learn and collect.
Although you can get started gradually without the guidance of experts or teachers, the time and economic cost are very high, and you will inevitably have to take many detours in the process of getting started. The way to solve this difficulty is to put down your social status with an open mind and look for teachers who are willing to help and guide you into the profession.
Two difficulties: real antiques are difficult to get started.
For beginners, although they have read a lot of books and often practice, most of the antiques they see in practice are fakes, and there are few opportunities to see the real ones.
Because there is no chance to learn and confirm the real antiques, most people can only practice in the stall market, and most of the stalls are fake and junk. Beginners themselves do not have the corresponding recognition ability, so they can only grope blindly and helplessly according to their own feelings. This kind of practice without pertinence and purpose will never really help you enter the collection field.
The key to solve this difficulty is to find the opportunity to actually see the genuine antiques, and make a careful investigation and identification, so as to master the characteristics of the genuine antiques. If you want to see the real thing, in addition to the real thing in the collection, you can learn about the real thing through the hands of experts or merchants.
Because generally speaking, real antiques are controlled by experts and merchants. To find learning opportunities, we must integrate into the business community and make friends, and achieve the purpose of learning opportunities and mastering real antiques by getting started with real products.
Three difficulties: it is difficult to understand only by words.
Predecessors often said that understanding antiques should be savvy. If you have savvy, you will know it. If you don’t have savvy, you will never get started.
The anatomy of savvy actually refers to everyone’s cultural quality. If you have comprehensive quality, you can understand it quickly when an expert explains it, and the speed of understanding depends on a person’s cultural level. Especially for the authenticity identification of antiques, if you want to know the authenticity of antiques in essence, you need to know the basic knowledge of materials science, technology and other scientific and technological fields. Only with these basic knowledge can you identify and theoretically recognize what is true and what is false.
Maybe you will say that there are many people in the field of antiques who are not well educated. Why do they know antiques after a few years? In fact, through years of practice, these people have mastered some essentials of distinguishing fakes from the sense of consciousness, but most of them can only identify but cannot explain. At the same time, we can only judge the authenticity by experience, without giving reasons or evidence. Being able to distinguish fakes depends on the understanding generated by culture and scientific and technological theory. Some people can master some experience of distinguishing fakes, which is formed under the stimulation of financial interests. This knowledge is shallow and limited.
Four difficulties: it is difficult to distinguish between true and false
Antique identification is difficult because of its extensiveness and complexity. There are a lot of strange antiques that have been scattered among the people and circulated in the antique market, and they have never been seen before. Some of them don’t even have museums, and there are no records in the materials.
Therefore, there are no comparative artifacts, and at the same time, I don’t know when and where they were unearthed. It is difficult to demonstrate this kind of antiques and it is very complicated to identify them.
Five difficulties: it is difficult for experts to distinguish
For those who are new to the field of collection, it is difficult to find a real knowledgeable person, and it is even more difficult to tell who is a real expert and who is a fake expert. This is very important for those who invest in the collection, and it determines the success or failure of the collection.
There are many ways to solve this problem. To identify the authenticity of experts, it is necessary to pass the screening test after mixing the authenticity and antiques. Real experts can defend the authenticity theory and be accepted by the market.
Six difficulties: it is difficult to learn industry rules.
Whether dealing in antiques or collecting antiques, as long as you enter the antique industry, you must understand and understand the rules or habits in the industry, otherwise you will not enter the real antique circle, and you will have little chance to get started with real antiques, and you will not be able to conduct professional antique trading.
To learn the rules of antique shops, the key is to accumulate, see more, listen more and ask experts for advice. And there are so many rules and habits in antique shops that it is hard to say that you can learn everything, so even people who have been in the business for decades dare not say that they have completely understood the rules of antique shops.
Seven difficulties: it is difficult to maintain a good attitude.
Having said that, in fact, for antique dealers and collectors, this last difficulty is the most difficult to control, and that is mentality. A superb expert will inevitably make a mistake. However, it is not a technical problem for some experts to punch holes. It is not that they don’t know the truth, but that their mentality at that time was incorrect. The performance of this incorrect mentality is mainly
First, it is not calm to see good, rare, refined, strange and unique antiques. Out of interest, it is easy to be ecstatic and lose self-control when seeing good ones.
Secondly, from the perspective of economic interests, I think this antique can make a lot of money, thus losing my mind and being greedy. However, when my mind gradually calmed down afterwards, I found that I didn’t make a careful investigation and study, and I bought a fake.
This mentality is difficult for both businessmen and collectors to control. Therefore, whether it is collecting or investing in antiques, the mentality is the most important. Don’t believe those "stories", and don’t always think about missing or getting rich overnight.
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