I Guess We All Have Favorite Sayings,

one I often use is for something totally, finally, irretrievably and utterly dead,

photographs Summer Place Auctions, it is "Deader than a Dodos do-do", if you do not know what a do-do is, it is colloquially known as poo, and from a Dodo you cannot get much deader that that! so seeing what is perhaps the largest private collection of Dodo memorabilia up for sale I thought I would have a look, the late naturalist Ralfe Whistler's shrine to the extinct birds will be sold at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst which is in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England on Tuesday and online on Wednesday, Mr Whistler, who died in 2023 aged 93, amassed an enormous collection of dodo artefacts and artworks at his home known as Dodo House, near Hastings,

a shoulder bone of the bird found by George Clark, who found the first dodo bones in Mauritius in the 1860s, and a letter from his daughter Edith are expected to fetch up to £10,000, lots in the collection include 150 paintings, prints and drawings and 20 sculptures of the bird, other memorabilia up for grabs include tea pots, mugs, vases, plates, tea towels, soft toys and a clock, in 2016, Summers Place Auctions sold a near complete dodo skeleton, believed to be one of only 12 worldwide, for £280,000, director Rupert van der Werff said: "Ever since we sold a complete dodo at Summers Place Auctions, it has been a bird close to our heart and we know how popular the bird is, and guess what? No mention of Dodos do-dos, so I still do not know what one (a Dodos do-do), actually looks like! the full article is here.