I would like to ask my friends if there is a future in collecting mahogany at this stage

Of course, there are prospects, and in recent years the price of the wood used to make these furniture has skyrocketed and the value of these things is very high. But there are a lot of doorways to it.

If you want to identify classical furniture, I will tell you from several aspects.

1》The quality of the wood.

According to the national standard, the scope of "mahogany" is determined to be 5 genera and 8 categories. The five genera are named after the genera of dendrology, namely Pterocarpus, Dalbergia, Dalbergia and Tielimu. The 8 categories are named after the trade names of wood, namely rosewood, rosewood, incense sticks, black sour branches, red sour branches, ebony, striped ebony and wenge.

At the same time, mahogany refers to the heartwood of these 5 genera and 8 types of wood, and the heartwood refers to the center of the tree and the part without living cells. Furniture made of wood other than that cannot be called mahogany furniture. I don't know what kind of wood the furniture you intend to collect.

If it is really "mahogany", then the wood should be more valuable. (Redwood is a tropical leguminous sandalwood wood, mainly produced in India, Guangdong, Yunnan and Nanyang Islands in China, and is a common and precious hardwood.) "Mahogany"It is a popular name in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the north, and is commonly known in Guangdong"Sour branch wood"。

It is one of the three special woods used to make furniture in the Ming and Qing dynasties. ）

2》Look at the age of the furniture, which does not mean that the older the age, the more valuable it is.

3》Look at the workmanship of the furniture, such as whether the woodworking process, carving process, polishing process, etc. are exquisite in place.

4》Look at the materials used in the furniture, for example, to see whether the materials used for the production of a piece of furniture are selected from a tree, whether a door panel or large surface is not patchwork, the whole material, etc.

5" also depends on the historical background of this piece of furniture, such as the things used by the king, which must have doubled in value.

6. Look at the amount of inheritance and the degree of preservation. It is said that things are expensive in Xi. There is a lot of truth in that.

All of the above aspects should be considered when determining the value of a piece of furniture. But these are just some of my own opinions, and if there is anything wrong, please correct me.