“Cash for rares”
This carpet weighs around 90 kilos – in the end the dealers fly away on it
“Cash for Rares” dealer Sarah Schreiber (l.) invited her colleagues to take a trip on her newly acquired Persian carpet.
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“Cash for Rares” was like a fairy tale from “A Thousand and One Nights”: a huge Persian carpet encouraged the dealers to take a plane trip.
“My dear Scholli, that’s a carpet!” says Horst Lichter as he enters the studio. This exaggerates the “Cash for Rares” moderator: The good piece weighs around 90 kilograms and is 25 square meters in size. It still belongs to Philip Walther. The 26-year-old self-employed craftsman from Braunschweig bought it himself. But for obvious reasons he can own the monster privately not use.
According to Friederike Werner it is a genuine Persian carpet. In fact, he comes from Keshan, a city south of Tehran that is known for its hand-knotted carpets. The material of the specimen laid out here is fine sheep’s wool, according to the expert. The age dates it to a good 100 years.
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Walther wants a five-figure sum as proceeds. That seems a bit too optimistic to Werner. The expert sees the carpet at more than 5,000 to 6,000 euros, citing the less than optimal condition and the need for restoration. The salesman in the dealer’s room wants to try his luck.
There, Sarah Schreiber bursts into loud cheers when she sees the enormous carpet. She enters the monster with her high heels and examines the magnificent patterns. “I’ve often said that these are the paintings of the Orient,” says the dealer.
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Schreiber also starts the auction with 5,000 – and has thus immediately put the lower end of the estimated value on the table. “Is it possible that you want him,” asks her colleague Friedrich Häusser. No other dealer is in the running, so Schreiber and Walther would have to decide between themselves. The dealer increases her offer to 7,000 euros – a price that the seller can easily live with. This is how the deal comes about.
“We can all stand on it and fly away,” suggests Elke Velten-Tönnies afterwards. No sooner said than done: all five people present step onto the Keshan carpet and then disappear as if by magic – a little trick from the director.
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