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Bares für Rares Recap Highlights On‑Air Ivory Removal, Fabergé Attribution and Roller‑Coaster Bids

Expert rulings plus EU ivory rules proved decisive for what could be traded and at what price.

Overview

  • Detlev Kümmel cut off ivory closures from a 1952 reprint of the Ten Bamboo Hall handbook on camera, clearing legal hurdles for a dealer‑room sale at €1,600 to Julian Schmitz‑Avila.
  • Heide Rezepa‑Zabel identified a turn‑of‑the‑century Fabergé two‑point brooch by August Hollming with a €7,000–10,000 estimate, which sold to Elisabeth Nüdling for €5,000.
  • A Bergkristall set replicating famous diamonds split dealer opinion despite an €1,800–2,300 valuation, and Elke Velten‑Tönnies secured it for €1,700 after Walter Lehnertz bowed out.
  • Colmar Schulte‑Goltz judged a landscape signed “J. Waldmann” to be a deliberate imitation of Jacob Waltmann, and the sellers were denied a dealer card.
  • Volatile bidding produced mixed outcomes, including a Loriot‑, Evelyn Hamann‑ and Otto Waalkes‑signed T‑shirt climbing to €1,400 for Wolfgang Pauritsch while a 19th‑century amputation kit fetched €750, below its €900–1,100 appraisal.