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“Cash for Rares” presenter Horst Lichter and expert Colmar Schulte-Goltz are enthusiastic about the presentation plate for cakes and tarts.
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A silver-plated cake stand from the 1920s is met with great interest by the team of dealers on the ZDF junk show “Bares für Rares”.
Antique dealer Markus Wildhagen has a very special idea of what he would do with the good piece.
Cologne - She doesn't want to clean silver anymore.
That's why 62-year-old Maria Kaiser from Wittichenau in Saxony is offering her antique cake stand for sale in the February 21st episode.
The antique presentation plate for cakes and tarts is not made of silver, but of brass.
Only the alloy is silver.
For Horst Lichter, the presenter of the ZDF junk show “Bares für Rares”, all of this is of secondary importance anyway.
In his mind's eye he sees the cheese and cream cake under the glass hood that was supposed to protect the cakes on display from damage.
“I think this thing is a bomb,” says the former TV chef enthusiastically.
“Cash for Rares” (ZDF): A presentation plate gives Markus Wildhagen wild ideas
The good piece almost didn't find its way onto the expert table at “Bares für Rares” in the rolling mill in Pulheim near Cologne.
For a long time, the presentation plate had been dismantled into its individual parts in a coal cellar in Munich.
Until Maria Kaiser's husband saved it from disposal and put it back together.
The couple owned the cake stand for 40 years.
Now it has to find a new owner.
“It is a wonderful presentation object that you have brought here,” says art historian and expert Colmar Schulte-Goltz.
The function is relatively obvious; confectioners displayed their range of cakes and tarts here.
The plate with eight removable, triangular cake servers is located on a relatively high base made of silver-plated brass.
The presentation plate was manufactured by the Württembergische Metallmanufaktur (Wümak) in Cannstatt near Stuttgart.
It was manufactured between 1929 and 1933, after which the factory switched its production to car parts.
The condition is fine for an almost 100-year-old object, with only signs of wear and a few minor damages to the glass.
The expert estimates the value at 200 to 250 euros.
He is already exceeding Maria Kaiser's expectations.
The Saxon woman, who was born in southern Germany, was hoping for around 100 euros.
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But how is the presentation plate received by retailers?
Sarah Schreiber, managing director of an auction house, who was recently enchanted by a Venice painting at “Bares für Rares”, reveals the good piece.
“So, first ideas?” she asks her colleagues Friedrich Häusser, Thorsden Schlößner, Susanne Steiger and Markus Wildhagen.
Do cakes or clocks belong in there?
Markus Wildhagen (left) and Horst Lichter do not agree.
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“I think that’s for watches,” says Wildhagen immediately.
His fellow dealers appear slightly irritated; both Susanne Steiger and Thorsden Schlößner guess - correctly - cakes and tarts.
Maria Kaiser confirms this and explains the function of her presentation plate to the dealers again.
“Cash for Rares” dealer Markus Wildhagen doesn’t want to know anything about cake
But Wildhagen remains adamant: “To support my theory a little, you could also put clocks in there.” In any case, this idea met with enthusiasm from Maria Kaiser.
However, jewelry expert Susanne Steiger opens the bidding round with 200 euros - and thus immediately meets the expertise of Colmar Schulte-Goltz.
Friedrich Häusser and then Markus Wildhagen get in, go to 250 euros, then 300 and 320.
Steiger gets out, Häusser and Wildhagen outbid each other in increments of 10.
“This is a really nice present for desserts,” praises Wildhagen and then he can’t help but say: “And if you don’t have anything to eat, you can always put clocks in there.”
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“He's completely stuck with his watches,” says Friedrich Häusser, shaking his head and increasing the price to 360 euros.
In the end, watch lover Wildhagen wins the race: for 400 euros - Häusser: "I'm out, put your watches in." - he buys the presentation plate.
And Maria Kaiser goes home with four times her desired price.