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‘Bares für Rares’ Highlights: Fast Flip, Auction Referral, and a Teen Sellers’ Walkout

Expert guidance shaped outcomes, prompting instant resale, refurbishment or an auction-house route for standout items.

Overview

  • Dealer Julian Schmitz-Avila paid €700 for an enamel advertising sign that Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz immediately bought from him, completing a resale before the episode ended.
  • A mispressed Beatles single, described as one of two and in medium condition, drew an expert value range from about €500 up to €30,000 with the owner targeting €30,000.
  • Dealer Wolfgang Pauritsch advised the Beatles record’s owner, Gerhard Neu, to consign the rarity to a major auction house rather than accept small dealer-room offers.
  • Walter Lehnertz bought a musical doll pram for €350, invested roughly €100 in materials to modify it into a display, and sold it to a customer for about €500.
  • Two 14-year-old cousins seeking to sell a midcentury white-gold ring left without a deal after offers topped out around €3,000 against an expert valuation of €5,550 to €6,000.