When I was in the sport before it was a badge of honour to have a picture on your wall of a fed topper by a chap called Anthony Bolton I seem to remember. I don’t suppose he’s still doing it?
PeteDerby wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:19 pm
When I was in the sport before it was a badge of honour to have a picture on your wall of a fed topper by a chap called Anthony Bolton I seem to remember. I don’t suppose he’s still doing it?
Anthony Bolton photos were excellent in b&w but not that good in colour. He used to touch up them up. Louella used him a lot. His colour photos were false colours. I recall being at Louella many years ago at saw the picture of 'Shy Lass' in the photo it had a green ring. But the bird was bred in 1975 and should have had a BLUE ring. To this day when I see a colour photo of a bird I always use the ring colour as a reference point. If the ring is the right colour, the bird will be.
Trouble is most sales on the internet are 5 day jobs so your trusting a fake photo if your buying that way which I think most do these days .
I would say just on the two main auction sites here 100’s are sold weekly and I don’t see many people doing the loft visits in the time frame
I have fell for it myself I moved one on within 3 hours of the box arriving more fool me
Neil I agree with you, but at the same time it is promoting the racing pigeon sport. Before I left for Germany the last trip. I was working on where I wanted to buy birds from for the German classic OLR. I had offers from top flyers over there to breed me some youngsters. In the end I chose to Visit Christoph and Leon, and I do feel I chose well. I would say a great family to visit , and top quality birds to choose from. I have to add, very nice a visit I enjoyed and sharing information about the sport in different countries.....
I don’t mean I dislike any particular fanciers fake photos Devo I wasn’t even thinking of Leon
I just don’t think they should be used for internet only sales
I couldn’t care what people hang on there wall they can colour them
In however they like but selling is different to me
Yes 100% agree. When selling these photo fit pics should NOT be allowed. Any buyer under the The Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ('Images and photos cannot be used in a way that is misleading')
Devo1956 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:24 am
Just a question to members, over the past years we have seen different racing pigeons online, in books and magazines. We are looking for what we feel is the best for our loft to enrich the blood, and hopefully breed future winners and breeders. So people go about it in different ways, I would say still promoting the sport.
Example of this photo, would this photo entice you to pick up the phone and enquire..
No not at all Devo. That photo doesn’t even make sense. Firstly it suggests that the are a foundation pair, one youngster possibly mentioned. Looking at it it says the cock is a 2019 bird and the hen a 2020 bird. Yet it’s suggesting that they produced the winner of the 2015 one million dollar race?? How can that be.
It does make sense Maybe because i understand everything on it because some is german but at the same time it is very badly made to understand. Basically That picture is a breeding couple and to my understanding then hen on the right is a daughter of sanjay 2015 SAMDPR Winner the cock on the left has nothing to do with sanjay at all but yeah its very badly made and easily missunderstood and unclear i definitely agree
Totally agree with you Mike theres to many pigeons sold from so called top breeders and no information of what they have actually bred and who is racing the offspring
Murray wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:15 am
Crikey, Mark, that's exactly what I said a day or two ago.
Of course my name isn't Mike Lycett, so I realise no one saw it.
Sorry Murray I didnt see your comment or it didnt register with me , great minds think alike
