Vintage Chinese ancient Archaic Copper Lock With Key -Dragon Shape

Vintage Chinese ancient Archaic Copper Lock With Key -Dragon Shape

In recent years, the Chinese have household items – locks, and now has become a very promising collectors collections. Especially the ancient lock is highly sought after market. As a Qing Dynasty bronze “knife lock,” about a decade ago, more than 200 yuan, and now the price has doubled several times, reaching $ 800-1000. So, what kind of locks it has a high appreciation potential? The following aspects for reference. From the material terms of the material has many ancient lock, wooden locks, golden, silver locks, lock, locks, lock jade, stone lock and so on. The wooden locked in people’s sight had disappeared, it locks and cloisonne are rarely survive in the world, has become a very rare collection of high quality goods. The golden, silver locks, jade lock, because of their material is hard currency, so the price is cheap. Now on the market, the more common are brass locks and locks, compared to helium and appreciate the value higher, and the difficulty of counterfeiting slightly, collectors can choose shape, decoration, carving are better Tongsuo for collection.

Speaking from the production process and the shape of the ancient lock craftsmanship course, the more refined the better. Technology developed in ancient times, the production of a lot of things are to be embodied by a manual process, the lock as well. The more ancient crafted lock, the higher the value. In shape, the lock is a good expression vector, it is generally the various strange shapes, imitating life imitating animal shapes or fancy styling appliance locks called “Citi Lock”, the rich tradition of strong ethnic style. For example, “Citigroup lock” in a “beetles lock” is based on the way the turtle honed, refined the lock pattern to portray the turtles to life, limbs and head and tail can beetles activities. Currently this “beetles lock” the price had more than 5,000 yuan. In order to lock the production process, even if it’s not a lock, too, is a rare crafts.

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Size: 4 inches