{"id":129915,"date":"2025-05-07T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/did-not-beat-the-historical-record-news-buskerud-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:11:23","slug":"did-not-beat-the-historical-record-news-buskerud-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/did-not-beat-the-historical-record-news-buskerud-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Did not beat the historical record &#8211; news Buskerud &#8211; local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;This one is in a lower price range, but still very aesthetic,&#8221; said Alexander Foss in Skanfil before the auction about the silver stuff. It was considered to be between NOK 80,000 and 100. 000 kroner. And after a round round, it was sold for NOK 360,000. After a fee of 25 %, buyers have to pay NOK 450,000. One price far from the previous time a silver stuff was sold. Then it went for 35, 6 million kroner, which is a Norwegian record. &#8211; But it was well above expectation, really. We expected it to go for 100,000 &#8211; 200. 000, but that it would go up to NOK 360,000 was more than expected. This is how it is with auction, one never knows, says the marketing manager for Skanfil, Joachim Aursland. He says there were four who gave a booth at the S\u00f8lvstuffen, and that the bodial round started at NOK 70,000. Great interest- we are noticing great interest from home and abroad for the time being, confirms Alexander Foss, department head in Skanfil Oslo. He talks warmly about the Silver Stuff that was going to auction off at Skanfil auctions\/Christiania auctions on Wednesday night. Alexander Foss is a department head in Skanfil Oslo. Photo: Skanfil Oslo \/ Christiania Auctions &#8211; Such objects are popular, he adds if the unique &#8220;lump&#8221;. According to the Norwegian Bergverksmuseum at Kongsberg, thread silver has been found in many other silver mines in the world: \u201cBut experts from the whole world highlight the thread 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 \u00bb. Silver stuffans are untreated silver, so to say picking straight out of the mountain. Grounded the &#8220;sculptural forms&#8221;, they were not melted about such a traditional one with other silver. &#8211; A small lump of black silver Pascal Nyborg is an art expert and auctioneer at the auction house Nyborg. He says this: &#8211; It is thread silver, which is considered the finest. The mines in Kongsberg are one of the few in the world that has this, with the nice lines. With sounding silver in the throat, he talks warmly about the Silver Stuff that will now be auctioned off at Skanfil auctions\/Christiania auctions. Nyborg portrays it further: &#8211; It looks like a small lump of black silver that is around a rock, small silver threads. Very nice to look at. It&#8217;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. &#8211; Why is just this interesting, then? &#8211; Due to the form, the auctioneer replies and explains further: &#8211; 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 &#8220;famous mine in the whole world&#8221; for the Silver Stuffane is in Kongsberg. &#8211; 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 :: Skanfil Auctions \/ Christiania Auctions. &#8211; 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 S\u00f8lvverk is an earlier mining company that was started in 1623 and formally created by royal resolution in 1624. The work is among Norway&#8217;s oldest mining and was one of the largest in Europe. Photo: NTB \/ NTB Get in the market art expert Pascal Nyborg says that external experts and collectors who have looked closely at it in advance together with the auction house have different views on how great potential this has. The silver stuff has &#8220;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, \u201daccording to the auction house. Photo: Skanfil Auctions \/ Christiania Auctions &#8211; We are very excited about what happens on Wednesday. This one has a safe provenance from the king&#8217;s mine in Kongsberg and has been inherited in the family. In other words, it has not been out in the market earlier, Nyborg said before the auction. Published 07.05.2025, at. 07.51 Updated 07.05.2025, at. 21.35<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/buskerud\/solvstuff-fra-kongsberggruvene-er-selt_-slo-ikkje-den-historiske-rekorden-1.17404772\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This one is in a lower price range, but still very aesthetic,&#8221; said Alexander Foss in Skanfil before the auction about the silver stuff. It was considered to be between NOK 80,000 and 100. 000 kroner. And after a round round, it was sold for NOK 360,000. 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