While the US has found itself in the midst of an egg crisis, the same cannot be said for the British land where a ‘one-billion’ eggs were people fighting to buy people in auction. To buy this egg, find out on what ‘eggs’ people!
A single egg in the United Kingdom was sold for a shocking £ 420, about $ 550 this week for its completely round shape. This rare egg was identified by Alison Green in Fanton Farm, Devon, which was an egg handler in the field. Four months after it was placed, the eggs were placed for auction for an estimated £ 100- £ 200. However, an unknown buyer bought an egg for a shocking £ 420, doubled the auctioner bearness hampton and the estimate of Littlewood.
In an interview with Telegraph UK, Green said that he had handled about 42 million eggs throughout his career and yet never seen as a circular as an eggs sold in the auction. He told how he found the egg, saying, “A few months ago I saw an egg moving strangely on the conveyor belt and picked it up.”
Image Credit: Ali Green/Fanton Farm
To prepare the eggs for sale, he preserved it in swan fat and salt inside a jar. This was due to a research that he had read that it was explained that before the fridge was available in Ireland, people saved their eggs using Lord and salt. He also said that the eggs will now be distributed to their new owner in a box with red satin and the earnings made from its sale will be donated to the charity, the Devon rape crisis that supports the survivors of sexual violence and misuse.
The owner of Fenton Farm, Andrew Gabriel also said in an interview that, “We have been doing this for 25 years. You have found odd size, but I never got a purely a round. I don’t think anyone expected it. It was surprising, however, at that price, I hope to find something else.”
Interestingly, this is not the first time for the UK. A similar egg was sold by a Scottish woman to Ed Paunol in Berkshire for £ 150, which found it in her own box of eggs. The eggs were further placed in an auction and sold for £ 200. In 2015, another found in a garden in Lachington at Essex was sold in £ 480.
