However, Xiao Ming was neither flustered nor hurried, even his smile did not change in the slightest as he looked at Guan Qingchang and said, "The Taisho Period was from 1912 to 1926."
At that time, the war had not yet erupted, and commercial exchanges between the two countries were frequent, a period which also saw a serious outflow of Qing dynasty artifacts."
The Furukawa family, by auctioning off the bronze hairpin tonight with a starting bid of only 20,000 yuan, clearly didn't know its true value."
This indicates that they had absolutely no reason to lie about its era."
The most critical point is that the hairpin was plated with a layer of bronze, even covering up the kingfisher feathers, which was clearly intended to prevent people from discovering its real origin."
Therefore, I speculate that the person who took it to Fusang back in the day was unaware of its value and lied about it being the work of a great craftsman in order to sell it at a good price."
