– It is thread silver, which is counted as the finest. The mines in Kongsberg are one of the few in the world that has this, with the nice lines. Pascal Nyborg is an art expert and auctioneer at the Nyborg auction house. With sounding silver in the throat, he talks warmly about the silver stuff that is now going away, and he portrays it further: – It looks like a small lump of black silver that is around a rock, small silver threads. Very nice to look at. It’s interesting. Mining at Kongsberg started in the 17th century. In the 1920s, many people worked in the mines. The operation was closed down in 1958. – Why is just this interesting, then? – Due to the form, the auctioneer replies and explains further: – Usually silver comes in a kind of nugget form, a lump, which looks like melted silver. But here are the great forms that nature has given him. King gifts from Kongsberg he adds that the most “famous mine in the whole world” for the Silver Stuffane is in Kongsberg. – These are very sought after in the international market, he concludes. This was sold from Kongsberg on December 13, 1920 and given in a gift in 1921. Then he was inherited in the same family. Photo: Oslo and Christiania Auctions According to the Norwegian Mining Museum at Kongsberg, thread silver has been found in many other silver mines in the world: “But experts from the whole world highlight the wire silver found in the silver mines at Kongsberg as the most beautiful. Many Natural History Museum All over the world has silver from Kongsberg centrally located in the exhibitions ». Silver stuffans are untreated silver, so to say picking straight out of the mountain. Grounded the “sculptural forms”, they were not melted about such a traditional one with other silver. – They often gave them as a gift to important persons. The Danish king, who at that time was king of Norway and Denmark. But the finest of them is probably the one that King Harald has at the castle, says Nyborg. Kongsberg Sølvverk is an earlier mining company that was started in 1623 and formally created by royal resolution in 1624. The work is among Norway’s oldest mining and was one of the largest in Europe. Photo: NTB / NTB does not need to be king or uncle Screw Now you have the chance to know you as an important person, or rather a king, when the silver -mentioned silver stuff from the mine to the king in Kongsberg goes under the hammer. This will happen this coming Wednesday. A total of 1,000 kilometers of mining were built in Kongsberg, with railway lines in many of the chairs. Photo: C.BERG- We note great interest from home and abroad for the time being, such objects are popular, confirms Alexander Foss, department head at Oslo and Christiania auctions. Last time one was sold, the price was somewhat stiff: 35, 6 million kroner. There is a Norwegian record. But relax. You don’t have to be a money -swimming uncle screw to hit the claws in it. – This one is in a lower price range, but still very aesthetic, says Foss. Few in the market he says that external experts and collectors who have looked more closely at it in advance together with the auction house have different views on how great potential it has. The silver stuff has “thread silver grows from calcite base with calcite at the end of some of the threads. It has high silver content and weight for its size, ”according to the auction house. Photo: Oslo and Christiania Auctions – We are very excited about what happens on Wednesday. This one has a safe provenance from the king’s mine in Kongsberg and has been inherited in the family. In other words, it has not been out in the market earlier. The lump with the unique shapes can now be yours. And the question is: For how much? – It is priced at between 60,000 and 80,000 kroner. I think he can go for between 100,000 and 200,000 kroner. It is very special. And there are few of them in the market, answers art expert Pascal Nyborg. Published 07.05.2025, at. 07.51
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