The strangest things lurk in attics. PCD Creative Director Brian Fox recently found himself faced with an odd dilemma as he set about clearing a house he’d inherited… what do you do with 200 30-60 year old piggy banks?
The pigs formed a collection started by Brian’s mother before he was born – and, he has to admit, expanded by himself well into his childhood.
Selfless as ever (or was he just daunted by the prospect of eBaying them?) Brian decided charity was the answer. The collection was eventually sold at an auction – appropriately enough at local pub The Blue Boar – arranged by the estate agents selling the house.
The pigs (please forgive us) simply flew. Largely thanks to Timothy Taylor’s finest ales, one suspects, the auction realised £1,099 for MacMillan Cancer Care.
Brian said: “My kids would have liked to have kept them, but lost a bit of interest when they found out they were empty. Naturally my wife was less keen. But it’s nice to have raised a few quid for a good cause… even though the local paper’s story did make me sound like the saddest individual ever to walk the earth.”
Judge for yourself…
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/search/3174182.Piggy_banks_boost/