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17 hours ago · 22 May 2024 1:09PM. A single huia bird feather has sold at auction, breaking records by a whopping 450%. Webb’s Auction House reckoned the rare feather would pull in around $2-3k, but all expectations were blown as the item sold at the hammer for a staggering $46,521.50. It is now reportedly the world’s most expensive feather, and too right.
17 hours ago · A feather of New Zealand ’s extinct huia has sold for $46,521 (£22,409), setting a new record for the feather of a bird sacred to the Māori people. The sale at Webb’s Material Culture live auction on Monday topped the previous record for the price of a huia feather by 450 per cent, the auction house said. The feather, largely brown with a ...
17 hours ago · SOURCE BBC. May 22, 2024 10:49 am. World's most expensive feather sold at auction. A single feather of the now-extinct New Zealand huia bird has set a world record after being sold for NZD$46,521.50 ($28,417, £22,409) at an auction. The feather, initially expected to fetch up to $3,000, broke the previous record which was for a feather of the ...
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2 hours ago · A feather from a long-extinct New Zealand bird has set a record after selling for $46,521 NZD (about US$28,400), the auction house handling the sale has said.
1 hour ago · A rare and highly sought-after feather from the extinct huia bird of New Zealand was sold at an auction for a whopping NZD$46,521 ($28,365), making it the world’s most expensive feather. The long-extinct huia bird was endemic to the North Island of New Zealand and was last seen in the early 1900s, but there was also a reported sighting in 1924. About the auction The feather that went under ...
17 hours ago · Huias are described as large black songbird and were found in New Zealand before going extinct. At one point there was an estimated 89,000 of the birds, but they became extinct as a result of predators and, to some extent, human hunting. Apparently huia were a target for collectors and fashion merchants.
17 hours ago · New Zealand Huia Bird's single feather has been sold for NZD$46,521.50 ($28,417, £22,409) at an auction, last Monday (21), making it the most expensive feather in the world. The feather is framed behind UV-protective glass and placed on archival paper to ensure its durability. The Huia bird is now extinct and its last confirmed sighting was in ...
