MUNICH.- The auction houses Pierre Bergé & associés in Brussels and Hermann Historica oHG in Munich opened doors on 13 December for the auctions of the Fantastic Collections of Karsten Klingbeil. Museum representatives, specialist traders and collectors from all over the world gathered at the head office of the Belgian cooperation partner at the beginning of the auction of the private museum of the renowned Berlin sculptor, philanthropist and former construction mogul. On the previous evening the audience had been prepared for this important event by specialist presentations, and on the following day circa one hundred lots of partly unique preserved crustaceans in conjunction with 240 of the total of 600 historically significant objects in the field of antique arms and armour came under the hammer. In this group complete armours ranging in date from the 15th to the 17th century as well as a selection of helmets, hafted w