“Bares for Rares”: Old bracelet delights dealers

“Bares for Rares”
Golden bracelet makes Hilly and Nobby happy

Hilly and Nobby shine: Their bracelet changes hands at “Bares für Rares” for 1250 euros.

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The gold bracelet was bought in Rimini half a century ago. Now Hiltrud and Norbert Esser want to part with it. But is it worth anything at all – or just highway gold?

Hiltrud and Norbert Esser from Pulheim brought a beautiful piece of jewelry to “Bares für Rares”: A gold bracelet, a memory of his mother, with whom he went to Rimini in the 1960s, reveals the management consultant. Or as he said flippantly in the expert room at Horst Lichter: “My mother’s booty from the Teutonengrill in Rimini.”

He hoped it wasn’t “Autobahn gold”, said the man who introduced himself as “Nobby” while his wife was introduced as “Hilly”. But what actually is Autobahngold?

Heide Rezepa-Zabel explained: In the 50s and 60s jewelry was often offered in the Rimini bathing region on the motorway. “Back then, gold was being produced en masse in Italy, using techniques that the Germans could not master,” explains the expert. That was offered on motorway parking lots and was often only gilded.

“Bares for Rares”: bracelet made of real gold

The bracelet you brought with you is real. According to Rezepa-Zabel, it was made in Vicenza, then the jewelery metropolis, and is made of 750 gold.

Nobby and Hilly would like 1000 euros for the piece of jewelry. But Heide Rezepa-Zabel estimates the gold value alone at 1150 euros. In addition, there is the processing: “It is an attractive piece, fits in well with today’s world.” Therefore it comes to a total of 1400 to 1500 euros.

The bracelet is also popular in the dealer room. Julian Schmitz-Avila starts with the value of the material, in the end he even puts 1250 euros on the table – and thus exceeds the expectations of the sellers by 25 percent.

Afterwards, they were correspondingly satisfied: they would not have gotten the estimated price, Hilly concludes, “but the dealers also want to earn something. For us, that’s okay.”

source: “Bares for Rares” in the ZDF media library

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