“Bares for Rares”: Old English lottery drum sparks a bidding war

“Bares for Rares”
Everyone wants them: Old English lottery drum sparks a bidding war

There has never been anything like this at “Bares for Rares”: Two saleswomen had brought an old lottery drum with them – which caused enthusiasm in the dealer room.

“What kind of noise are you making?” Horst Lichter wonders when he enters the “Bares for Rares” studio. There, Detlev Kümmel is bending around a round cage filled with small balls: “It’s a ball pool for hamsters,” jokes the expert.

In fact, it is a lottery drum with different numbers. An attic find that the two friends Monja Perner and Sabine Eser from Puchheim in Bavaria would like to cash in on.

At first they assume it is a bingo game. But Kümmel thinks that is unlikely: it has 90 or 75 balls. The drum presented here, on the other hand, is intended for a significantly larger number of numbers. The expert assumes a target number of around 1000 balls.

“Bares for Rares”: Enthusiasm in the dealer room

The lottery drum is very likely from England, the welds point to the 1920s or 1930s, a really old piece. The saleswomen would like to have a hundred as the desired price. Detlev Kümmel corrects that upwards: he thinks 250 to 300 euros is possible.

And it gets even better. In the dealer room, this rare object is met with great enthusiasm. “We’ve never had anything like this before,” says Wolfgang Pauritsch. Christian Vechtel already has an idea of ​​what’s to come: “Most of the time, too much enthusiasm is too expensive for us,” says the 47-year-old.

Accordingly, he starts cautiously with 100 euros. Since all dealers except Lisa Nüdling take part in the auction, the price quickly rises above the estimated value. In the end, Pauritsch gets the bid for 420 euros – that’s more than four times the desired price.

The two friends beam into the camera afterwards and agree: “That was great!”

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

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