When Horst Lichter enters the expert room at "Bares für Rares", he sees expert Friederike Werner leaning over a painting. It belongs to Ilka Spormann-Behring from Bonn, who visits the ZDF junk show with her partner Sven Scheunemann to find a new owner.

As the owner reveals, it comes from her family and is around 130 years old. The painter himself probably gave the picture to one of her ancestors.

According to Friederike Werner, it is a painting by the Polish painter Maurycy Trębacz, who was born in Warsaw in 1861 and died under German occupation in the Lodz ghetto in 1941. The handwritten dedication "In memory of your 9th wedding anniversary 1897" is recorded on the back. A fruit seller is depicted. The expert raves about the “vivid colors” of the painting. The frame also receives praise, Werner finds it “fantastic”.

Spormann-Behring puts her pain threshold at 3,000 euros. Friederike Werner even goes beyond that and estimates the value at 4,000 to 5,500 euros, much to the delight of the sellers.

However, things are not going ideally in the dealer room. First Wolfgang Pauritsch complains about the frame, then Markus Wildhagen starts unusually low at 200 euros. Roman Runkel isn't even there; the picture is too dark for him. And so initially it doesn't go higher than 650 euros.

When Scheunemann mentions the expertise, the dealers are amazed. Pauritsch offers 1000 euros - which the saleswoman brusquely rejects. The Austrian makes another attempt and increases it to 2000 euros. “They are very friendly with this offer,” says Spormann-Behring. Her persistence pays off: Pauritsch makes a final offer and offers 2,500 euros.

The saleswoman gives in and agrees to the deal. She takes one last look at the painting before leaving with all the cash.

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