Tuesday 10 November 2020

Considered Vermin By Many,

to some they are worth fortunes,


and to some musical merriment, as in this song by Tom Lehrer,

and they are? pigeons, going back to the people that think they are worth a fortune, this week there is a ongoing auction of racing pigeons, Hok Van De Wouwer, a renowned pigeon breeder in Antwerp, Belgium has recently put its entire collection of racing pigeons on sale this month. Father and son duo Gaston and Kurt Van De Wouwer have an enviable resume among pigeon breeders, winning numerous national ace pigeon titles and 1st place at nationals, photograph Pipa Pigeon Paradise 

in just one and a half hours after the auction went live on the Pipa Pigeon Paradise website last Monday, New Kim already had 226 bids, with the highest one topping 1.3 million euros. The price hasn’t budged since, but with four days left to go, it’s already the most expensive pigeon ever, surpassing the record set by another Belgian specimen named Armando, for which a Chinese collector paid 1,252,000 euros in 2019, the auction officially ends on November 15, so a new bid could still exceed the record bid of the South African, although it is unlikely. There is a small chance that the bid could be retracted, but the organizer requires a deposit of 20% of the total bid sum, when it exceeds 500,000 euros, so in this case the bidder would lose 300,000 euros, as you might expect, the bird would never be flown, it would be far too risky to lose it, the bird will be used for breeding hopefully resulting in a thoroughbred offspring, I wonder what the final bid will be? 


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