“Bares for Rares”
This old beer mug brings the saleswoman a rain of money
Marie laughs: An old beer mug makes the cash register ring for saleswoman Lis Prussen.
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Lis Prussen brought an old beer mug to “Bares für Rares”. What can it be worth? The lady wanted 120 euros for it – in the end it was a four-digit sum.
“You don’t want him because you don’t drink that much beer”: Moderator Horst Lichter summed up Lis Prussen’s problem. The pensioner and artist from Perl received an old beer mug from her mother-in-law. But due to lack of use, she now wants to convert it into money. However, she doesn’t expect much: she would be satisfied with 120 euros.
Heide Rezepa-Zabel sees it differently, however: the art expert gives a long lecture on the hung beer mug that comes from England. People used to drink their pint from it in the pub. By earlier she means: the 18th century. The tankard is that old. From 1730, at the time of King George II, the fashionable baluster shape with an exposed foot was used in England, the art historian reports. Rezepa-Zabel can determine the date even more precisely using the hallmarks: the beer mug comes from 1776.
“Old Swede,” says Horst Lichter. The material is also impressive: it is 925 silver, which means that the silver value alone is 220 euros. The expert estimates the art market value of the object at 1,400 to 1,600 euros. That is more than ten times what the saleswoman wanted to redeem. But does she get the money too?
“Bares for Rares”: The dealers start hesitantly
In the dealer room, however, things started hesitantly at first. “Because I like to have a beer, I’ll start with 120 euros,” Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz opens the bidding contest. From then on, it goes leisurely in steps of 20 euros up to 820 euros.
But saleswoman Lis Prussen stays cool and gets Wolfgang Pauritsch and Julian Schmitz-Avila to go one step further. In the end, it turns out to be four digits: Schmitz-Avila ultimately puts 1000 euros on the table for the tankard. A proud sum that the happy saleswoman wants to invest appropriately: she would like to invite her family to an aperitif.
source: “Bares for Rares” in the ZDF media library