Last weekend 2 and 3 November was again the spectacle of auction organization De Duif: the Golden Ten.
Top fanciers from the Netherlands and Belgium may buy a limited (8) number of pigeons from their very best breeders, which are then publicly viewed and sold in the hall. Very high prices have been paid for the pigeons here for a number of years, partly due to the superior quality offered by enthusiasts.
We were also allowed to participate again and had selected a couple of wonderfully beautiful pigeons for the Hermans family, among others directly from “Harry”, “New Harry”, “Harry Junior” and “Beauty Harry”.
Koop 81, the NL19-1021453 “Miss Harry Jane”, direct daughter of “New Harry” x “Sister Harry 565” was a real beauty which was endorsed by many viewers. In addition to being a beautiful hen, she also came from a proven pairing. Her full brother already became the father of “Jane” who won 1st National against 14,422 pigeons and 8th NPO against 5,996 pigeons as a young pigeon.
As one of the last pigeons of Saturday, 4 of our pigeons were auctioned. What happened then made us perplexed. Our “Miss Harry Jane” turned out to be extremely popular and Chinese buyers (over the phone) started a tough bidding battle with each other. The entire room with attendees took part in the bidding process and even the announcer became a little hoarse. The bids went quickly to 100,000 euros and even then the cake was not over. Finally, Mr Tien-Chang Lin from Brussels won for his Chinese client Mr. Liu entered the fight and won “Miss Harry Jane” for a whopping 122,000 euros, which with the auction surcharges goes up to a whopping 146,400 euros. A fabulously high amount and also a new record: most expensive young bird ever in auction!
The old record was also in the name of Jan Hooymans and was established in 2009 when Pieter and Gea Veenstra bought the “Miss Million” for no less than 96,000 euros, a full sister of “Harry” and the only one ever sold.
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