Overview
- Dealer Elke Velten-Tönnies purchased a ring with a 3.8–3.9 carat brilliant for €5,300 and had it remounted as a yellow-gold bracelet, targeting a €12,000 retail price after about €4,000 in work.
- Expert Dr. Heide Rezepa-Zabel linked a brooch to the Russian imperial milieu, attributing it to August Hollming’s Fabergé-era workshop with a €7,000–€10,000 international estimate.
- Dealers hesitated over the lack of a classic Fabergé stamp until host Horst Lichter explained Hollming’s goldsmith mark, prompting Elisabeth Nüdling to bid €5,000 to clinch the sale.
- In a ‘Lieblingsstücke’ episode, Detlev Kümmel valued a folding polyptychon by Ukrainian painter Valentin Rusin at €1,200–€1,500, with Lichter sharing a lighthearted moment by escorting a fan from the expert room.
- An 1886 gold brooch and bracelet sold for €1,050 to David Suppes, with a handmade box by the seller’s grandchildren included and €30 set aside for the kids.