A pensioner is looking for buyers for his wife’s thousands of decorative pigs
Collection in Cologne
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A pensioner is looking for buyers for his wife’s thousands of decorative pigs
Cologne “The whole nursery is a pigsty”: A pensioner from Cologne is looking for buyers for an almost unmanageable collection of decorative pigs.
His wife Hannelore, who died about a year ago, was collected, said 85-year-old Rudolf Lausberg on Wednesday of the German press agency. The whole apartment is now full, including the former children’s room. “Fabric pigs, iron pigs, glass pigs – in all variations.”
The 85-year-old’s idea is that at least part of the collection should go to a good cause. He is thinking of a donation for the flood victims in the Ahr valley. But he would need buyers for that.
Several Cologne media had reported on the 85-year-old and his collection. His wife’s passion still comes from childhood – at that time she owned a pig and got used to the animals. The collecting fever then broke out, according to the former fence farmer (“I have fenced in practically all of Cologne”) when a first decorative pig was purchased in downtown Cologne. That cost 100 marks back then, a lot of money. The couple was married for 58 years. He estimates the pig collection to be around 4,000 specimens today.
Lausberg let his wife guarantee pig-wise free for all those years, as he did permanently. “I was delighted myself that my wife had so much fun with it.”