“Cash for rares”
Holy cow! Sisters enchant the dealers’ room with their music box
Sister Mirjam and Sister Thekla brought a music box to “Cash for Rares”.
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High-ranking visitors to “Cash for Rares”: Two nuns visit the junk show and want to sell a music box. The traders are intimidated.
“You can see what you do for a living,” says Horst Lichter as he greets his two guests. There are two nuns from Rüdesheim am Rhein who paved the way to the “Cash for Rares” studio. During a clean-up operation in their attic, Sister Mirjam and Sister Thekla found a beautiful music box that the two Benedictine sisters now want to sell.
As expert Sven Deutschmanek explains, it is a perforated music box, a forerunner of the record player. It was manufactured between 1905 and 1910 by the Kalliope Musikwerke company in Leipzig. The nuns would like 300 to 500 euros for their old piece. A realistic wish: Deutschmanek estimates the value at 350 to 450 euros.
“Cash for Rares”: The dealers have respect
“We’re excited to see how they’ll react when we both show up,” said Sister Thekla before entering the dealer’s room. And the normally cheeky bidders actually became very reverent when they saw the nuns. “Welcome! What splendor in our circle,” Friedrich Häusser greets the two women. “In any case, we have to behave now,” adds Markus Wildhagen.
Out of sheer respect, none of those present dare to start the auction. “You all have a bit of respect, can that be?” Wildhagen asks his colleagues. Finally, Thorsden Schlößner gives it a try and starts with 100 euros. The large number of visitors means that the bids come in in unusually large increments. In the end, Friedrich Häusser buys the perforated music box for 500 euros – which means he pays more than the estimated value.
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The sisters are happy. They now want to donate the proceeds to a street ambulance in Frankfurt that takes care of homeless people. “The money is really well spent.”
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