“Cash for rares”
“I’m freaking out”: Dealers are offering ridiculous amounts of money for old glossy pictures
Christian Vechtel and Esther Ollick are happy about the brilliant pictures in the “Bares für Rares” dealer room.
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Four sample books in “Cash and Rares” are not only of interest to Horst Lichter. The dealers are going crazy and offering unbelievable sums of money.
Maren-Alice Dietrich has four sample books to “Cash for Rares”. They belonged to the 61-year-old’s grandfather, who used to own a printing shop in Berlin, Zoeke & Mittmeyer. They mainly printed greeting cards and postcards, as Dietrich explains. The books come from the estate and contain gloss – and lacquer paintings.
While the saleswoman is speaking, Sven Deutschmanek interrupts her. “You can actually kick ass a bit more.” She downplays the whole thing, but in fact the printing company was one of the largest producers of postcards at the turn of the century. The sample books to be examined here were intended for customers and trade fairs.
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The cards depicted therein are now a sought-after collector’s item. “I think that would be the Holy Grail for a collector if he can also get the samples from the company.” The expert describes them as an “extraordinary, sensational collection of brilliant images that I have never seen before.”
The seller would like 1000 euros for it. Deutschmanek is more cautious in his estimate. He estimates the value at 600 to 800 euros. But admits that it could “definitely be more.”
“That was one of my highlight cases,” says Horst Lichter as the saleswoman leaves the room. And the object is also well received in the dealers’ room. “I’m freaking out,” shouts Esther Ollick. Together with Christian Vechtel she cheers excitedly: “Glanzbilder!”
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Friedrich Häusser starts with 600 euros and thus offers the lower limit of the estimated value right from the start. When Vechtel offers 700 euros, Ollick points out that those are already very good offers. But the men don’t listen to them: Fabian Kahl now joins in, and so the three of them drive the price to ever more absurd heights.
Even at 2000 euros the madness doesn’t end. In the end, Vechtel and Häusser duel. The latter coldly counters every bid, and so the books only change hands for 2,800 euros. That’s more than three times the estimated value and 2,000 euros more than expected.
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