Vittorio Piccinno wants to part with his pretty bowl. The 53-year-old caretaker from Breisach am Rhein is still fascinated by the workmanship and appearance. But the family actually wanted to use it as a container for fruit – and it wasn’t suitable for that. “You put the fruit in, then you couldn’t see anything from the bowl,” says Piccinno. But she is too good for that, so he wants to sell her.
“The bowl lives from the rich decor,” agrees expert Bianca Berding. It would be a pity to cover that with large items. Berding also praises the object’s material, which is twelve soldered silver. The bowl comes from the Biedermeier period and was made after the wars of liberation. The silversmith was Ernst Friedrich Kemnis, who was born in Hanover in 1795.
A nice, old piece from the years 1830 to 1850, but with a lot of small damage. That puts a little pressure on the price: the seller would like 400 to 500 euros for it, but the expert corrects that down to 300 to 400 euros. But that’s also a hefty sum, considering that Piccinno only paid 15 euros for it at the flea market.
Daniel Meyer starts with 250 euros, but it doesn’t stop there: Four of the five dealers present take part in the auction, and so the price climbs to 400 euros – the upper limit of the estimated value and the lower limit of the desired price. So a precision landing.
“It went very well for me,” says Vittorio Piccinno afterwards, who sold his flea market find for a lot of money. He can go home happy.
Source: “Bares for Rares” in the ZDF media library
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