Overview
- ZDF expert Annika Raßbach identified the multicolored piece as a visible insurance certificate from the Provinzial Feuer-Societät, dating it to about 1910–1930 and likely by Heinrich Peters of Elberfeld.
- Janine Albers and Florian Rickes brought the item with family provenance, saying her father discovered it in an attic decades ago and passed it on this year.
- The appraisal set the value at €80–€100 before the dealers’ auction.
- A heated contest between Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz and Daniel Meyer, with interjections from Benjamin Leo Leo, pushed bidding far beyond the estimate.
- Outlets report slight variance on the final figure—about €510 to €520—but agree Lehnertz won and the piece now goes with him to the Eifel.