What does "take medicine and pay tuition" mean in the world of collecting?

In the collection world, there is a saying called paying tuition. The word sounds ordinary. In fact, it means being cheated and buying fake goods. For novice collectors, paying tuition is normal. After all, they lack vision and experience. They will inevitably suffer losses on their way to becoming collectors. Today, Tudor tells you two true stories about paying tuition.

There is an old lady Liu in Liaoning. She is a famous painter. Starting in 2009, I don’t know why, but she likes to go shopping for treasures in antique cities and cultural relic markets. She bought relevant books herself and studied seriously at home. Then take the book to the antique city and cultural relics market, and select "treasures" based on the pictures. In this way, she spent 150,000 yuan and bought many "treasures". After hearing what the experts said, Mrs. Liu realized that she had bought a fake house and paid 150,000 yuan for tuition!

After listening to these two stories about new collectors paying tuition, you must be deeply touched: Why are there so many fakes in the collection market? Why do unscrupulous vendors prey on honest people? In fact, it is not only novice collectors who are easily deceived, but also elite experts in the collecting world. The reason is that in addition to unscrupulous counterfeiters and vendors who deceive people and make up stories to sell to collectors, there is another situation where the source of the collection itself is unclear and the authenticity is difficult to identify. In short, on the road to recruitment, paying tuition is an embarrassing thing that will happen. Finally, Tudor took calligraphy and painting collections as an example to talk about how novice collectors should spend as little money as possible?

First of all, when buying calligraphy and painting works by famous artists, you only look at the authenticity of the things and rarely believe in the stories behind them. If something is true, the following story should be heard as an anecdote; if something is false, the following story should be heard as a joke. Because some stories are an integral part of the process of producing and selling counterfeit goods, a well-crafted story will make buyers follow the storyteller's lead. When I got into collecting, I fell into a few "story" traps. For example, this painting is a relic of a certain family; the seller is in urgent need of money due to pressure from creditors or the stock market; this painting was previously bought from a cultural relics store; this painting was copied by the government from the home of a corrupt official, etc. Wait, there are many kinds of stories, and the patterns are constantly being renovated. So we can only stick to any one story and not listen to it. We can find the basis for identification from the work itself.