I think this is absolutely impossible. It is a "short circuit" to think that you can buy priceless real antiques at street stalls. If people can own real antiques, do they still need to set up stalls? Dozens of stores have bought them. If there are channels, antique shops are also open. How can we sell them to those of us who want to be lucky? But after visiting a street stall, I really found a lot of "antiques", which are said to be peerless. What's going on here?
Of course, the real thing is impossible, so under the premise that all booths are fake antiques, the number of fake antiques is really too much, and the production is not bad. For those who don't know how to do it, it is likely to be considered genuine. And stalls are everywhere, especially in big cities. There are many underground shopping malls and stalls, and each stall sells so many antiques. I wonder where their fake antiques come from.
According to the vendor, the unified answer is ancestral, which is really scary. Your ancestors left so many valuable things, how did you start to set up stalls in your generation? Is it to benefit the poor? Another kind person in the industry explained to me where these so-called antiques came from.
Most of them are bought from Taobao wholesale. As long as you search online Taobao APP for information about products such as "antique handicrafts" and "ancient artworks", there will be a wave of shops with low prices. Because buyers know that they are antique artworks, the selling price will not be excessive, and there will even be wholesale preferential prices, which is very interesting for those who set up stalls to sell fakes. Taobao usually shows antiques and fakes, and only a few shops will hide them, but in fact everyone knows it very well. When I arrived at the stall owner, it became priceless, and I began to pit antique Xiaobai and some nouveau riche who didn't understand art.
Another common channel is to purchase goods in small factories and small ceramic kilns. Generally, such factories are all in quantity, so the quality is questionable. For example, some fakes don't even feel fake, just make a "shape" and the material is poor. Unlike some folk experts, they guard against artworks, falsify and make old ones. Sometimes the truth can only be seen in small details, but this kind of high imitation fake usually enters the black-hearted antique shop and is widely publicized, so it is difficult for stall owners to buy it.
There are also some miscellaneous channels, and cheap imitations collected are sold everywhere. Anyway, it's fate to buy it, and if it's rotten or broken, it'll sell for a price. In short, the antique market is deep and there are many counterfeiters, so it is very easy for stall owners to purchase goods. In the end, we consumers who don't know much about the inside story will suffer. Therefore, when buying ancient handicrafts, we'd better keep our eyes open, don't shop blindly, listen to the rumors of fake sellers and try to avoid unnecessary losses.
We'd better not trust those cheap "good goods", don't buy antiques in stalls, and contribute to a clean and transparent trading environment in the antique market. Cracking down on counterfeit goods starts with everyone.