Tuesday 17, October
BVG to auction off 1,900 lost items this Thursday
So far this year, around 40,000 items have been found on the Berlin public transport system – with only 6,000 such items making it back to their original owners. That’s a lot of stuff to keep in storage. For that reason, the BVG holds auctions four times a year where some of the unclaimed items are sold off to the highest bidder – and one of them is happening this Thursday.
Auction house Beier in Tempelhof will open its doors at 8:00 for Berliners to take a look through the 1,900 lost items – expected to include bicycles, watches, jewellery, clothes and cameras – before bidding begins at 10:00.
This same institution has held some other unusual auctions in recent times. Last August, they sold off the contents of an entire former DDR museum located in Brandenburg, with some notable items including a Barkas ambulance (€18,000) and a rare Trabant car used for forestry (for €7,000).
