the most "teuer" ball ....
well , some years ago ( around 2000 ) at a tournament in Naturns a famous Dutch dealer showed me some balls form his collection : one was the " schwarz 083 mit bleik" ....
the balls was quite big ( D= 39.5- 40 mm. circa ) , not too much soft , very heavy ( I can estimate the G = 85 gr. circa ) with a jump ( S ) around 40 cm.
it had the very peculiar "Deutschmann smell" you can feel heating old blau 083-085 : it had the typic smell of "wet gummy boat" ( " nass Gummiboot " )
and looked made in two halves due to the two typical Deutschmann round signs( " rings" ) in the middle.
( these circular signs can be seen also in balls made by others such as Kiesow ).
he said that the ball was not for sale as in his life has seen only 3 and this was just the second he got in his hands ...
but that he could sell it for 1000 DM to top European collectors with just a couple of phonecalls ...
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