“Cash for rares”
Katharina Wackernagel and her snail
“Cash for Rares”: Moderator Horst Lichter with actress Katharina Wackernagel and expert Detlev Kümmel (from left to right).
© ZDF/Sascha Baumann
Actress Katharina Wackernagel was the new celebrity guest on “Bares für Rares”. She brought the traders a porcelain snail.
This time ZDF was able to win Katharina Wackernagel, 45, as a celebrity guest for the new evening edition of “Bares für Rares”. The German actress and director offered a porcelain figurine to the dealers of the show at Drachenburg Castle.
From the grab box to television
Wackernagel said she found the figure in a grab-and-go box at a flea market in 1998, shortly after she moved to Berlin. She paid a total of five D-Marks for it. Expert Detlev Kümmel, 55, determined that it was a “snail mail” figure by the artist Albert Caasmann (1886-1968), which was made by Rosenthal between 1918 and 1920.
Above all, the small figure had a symbolic meaning for Wackernagel that no longer applies today. “I moved forward professionally, but because I’m a very impatient person, everything was always too slow for me back then,” she explained. She bought the figure as a symbol of how she felt – “sitting on a snail, waiting for things to move on.”
In recent years, however, this has been quite the opposite. Wackernagel now often has the feeling: “It all goes by so quickly. […] Now I actually need ‘The Girl on the Rocket’ and the snail, I sometimes wish they were back a bit.”
Unfortunately, the figure’s antennae had broken off, which is why the expert gave an estimate of 120 to 150 euros. However, Wackernagel only expected around 30 euros anyway. At the dealer’s table, this expectation should be significantly exceeded. Sarah Schreiber, 36, offered 200 euros because of the “beautiful story” and won the contract.
“Wow, you’re listening to the channel”
A couple who traveled from near Alicante in Spain provided a sporting highlight. In their luggage they had a jersey that was not worn by football legend Pelé (1940-2022), but was signed in 1973. However, the price is still increased by the fact that the Brazilian icon signed the jersey during his active career, explained Sven Deutschmanek, 47.
The expert estimated the good piece to be worth around 1,200 to 1,500 euros and thus also met the couple’s desired price of 1,500 euros. A small bidding war should develop in the dealer room between Wolfgang Pauritsch, 51, and Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz, 56. “Wow, you can listen to the channel,” said Waldi. Although he wanted the jersey, he didn’t want to beat Pauritsch’s final bid for 3,100 euros.