Kathrin Geuther has a bottle of hard liquor with her when she visits “Bares für Rares”. “Selling the bottle is easy for me after so many years,” she says. Geuther was five years old when her father gave the bottle to her mother for her wedding anniversary. Now the pensioner needs space – she wants to move in with her partner Rainer in Duisburg.
“Oh God in heaven,” says Horst Lichter when he discovers the object. “It’s about percentages today.” But the moderator is only half right. Because it is a very special bottle: Inside there is a music box that plays “On the beautiful blue Danube,” as expert Detlev Kümmel demonstrates.
The music has a function: when you want to take a sip, the music stops. This special construction therefore fulfills a control function. A ballerina dances inside the bottle, the liquid is apricot brandy. The bottle was manufactured in France in 1967 by the Dutch company Bols.
The couple would like 150 to 200 euros for it. However, the expert doesn’t quite agree. Due to the low filling level, it ultimately comes to a value of 120 to 150 euros. The sellers agree to this.
When the two enter the dealer’s room with the hard liquor, they are greeted enthusiastically. “I have fire like a mountain goat,” shouts Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz. But there are two other interested parties: Jos van Katwijk claims the bottle as his own because it comes from a Dutch distillery. And Wolfgang Pauritsch is interested because the music of an Austrian composer is playing.
“Waldi” starts with its obligatory 80 euros. Pauritsch and van Katwijk resist, but in the end “Waldi” has the last word and auctions off the bottle for 180 euros. Since he doesn’t have the right amount, he ends up paying 200 euros. But it’s worth it. He states with satisfaction: “The music comes from Austria, the broth comes from Holland – and where is it going: to the Eifel.”
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