Overview
- ZDF aired a primetime Christmas edition hosted by Horst Lichter with regular experts and dealers, featuring cooking, memories and music, and the program is available in the ZDF-Mediathek through June 2026.
- An expert cut a couple’s €12,000 wish for a sapphire ring to €3,000–€3,500, citing market changes since the 1990s and increased supply of Madagascar sapphires, prompting them to keep the piece.
- Leipzig actor Dirk Lange learned his 1930s/40s gold set was worth far more than he thought as the gold value alone hit €1,400; Susanne Steiger bought the pieces for €2,350 after a €2,500–€3,000 appraisal.
- A planned sale was stopped when a supposed bronze Amazone sculpture proved to be zinc with an apparently forged Gladenbeck signature, leading Horst Lichter to withhold the dealer card.
- Surprise outcomes included a Loetz glass bowl bought for €1.30 reselling for €2,200 to Fabian Kahl, a 1979 Miele enamel sign fetching €300, a theater bag withdrawn over low bids, and an artist’s can‑brooch selling for €1,000.