Overview
- Dealer Fabian Kahl acknowledged a €2,500 loss after buying a bronze jockey for €3,000 and later reselling it for €500.
- Kahl also made one of the week’s bigger outlays, paying €4,650 for a 1930s gold bracelet and ring set inherited from a goldsmith.
- Restoration bets featured prominently as David Suppes bought an Aurelio Zingoni oil for €2,300, invested €1,400 in conservation, and is targeting at least €4,500 on resale.
- Pricing gaps persisted between estimates and outcomes, with a Raffael Schuster-Woldan oil appraised at €2,500–€3,000 selling for €1,500, while a paper theatre valued at €1,400–€1,800 brought €1,600 after a €50 wish price.
- The Christmas primetime special drew about 1.53 million viewers, placing mid-pack and trailing ARD’s concurrent 1.61 million.