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Latest 'Bares für Rares' Episodes Deliver Laughs, Tough Calls and Wild Price Swings

Expert scrutiny proved decisive in setting values that dealers then challenged.

Overview

  • Porcelain dental samples from Hutschenreuther brought on-air laughter from Horst Lichter and sold for €150 to Ferdinand Resul Adanir after a €100 estimate.
  • Three vintage gym apparatuses (a Pauschenbock and two Pauschenpferde) sought €4,000–€5,000, were valued at €1,150, and went in a three-way dealer split for a total of €900.
  • A glass vase signed “Gallé” was identified as a 1980s forgery, leading producers to withhold a dealer-room pass and the sellers to take it home.
  • Student Cedric Höller’s Mendelssohn score, estimated at €400 against a €1,000 wish, drew a €300 offer that he declined, leaving without a sale.
  • Lutz Preussner’s 1908 silver-and-gold cigarette case drew a €2,000–€2,200 appraisal and sold to Wolfgang Pauritsch for €1,740 after brisk bidding.