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Bares für Rares: €5,000 Mosaic, €6,000 Mourning Jewelry, Suspected Fakes Halt Deals

On‑air authentication with material tests shaped outcomes across the Jan. 6–7 broadcasts.

Overview

  • Expert Colmar Schulte-Goltz reattributed a supposed painting to a Pietra‑dura mosaic by Giovanni Montelatici (c. 1900), prompting a bidding battle that ended with dealer Fabian Kahl buying it for €5,000, far above the €2,000 wish and €2,500–3,500 estimate.
  • Diana Seehafer’s antique mourning set tested as 585 gold weighing about 45 grams, and jewelry dealer Susanne Steiger purchased it for €6,000 as the sole bidder, exceeding the expert range and the metal-value reference.
  • An ‘Amazone’ sculpture carrying a Gladenbeck & Sohn signature was identified as zinc casting with a likely forged mark, so the sale was stopped and no dealer card was issued.
  • Former ‘Lindenstraße’ actor Cosima Viola’s perfume flacons marked “Bottle Made by Lalique” were judged imitations, and the seller left without a dealer card after experts deemed them fakes.
  • Other segments underscored the show’s human element, including an emotional overpay on a vintage camera when a dealer lifted his offer to meet a seller’s sentimental target.