Birds eggs auctioneer faces fine (BBC News) (1 Viewer)

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BF Newsroom

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• Mar 10, 2010

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A Northumberland auctioneer faces a hefty fine for trying to sell a cabinet containing birds eggs.

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kawwauser

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• Mar 17, 2010

• #2

hard to believe given his age he didn,t know this was illegal

 

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Peewit

Once a bird lover ... always a bird lover

• Mar 17, 2010

• #3

I think the cabinets owner (if he is still around of course) should be the one that is facing the music along with the Auctioneer.

Two people are involved with this issue not just one

All for the sale price of £40 for the cabinet!

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Kathy
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fugl

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• Mar 17, 2010

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I’m curious about the law involved here. I take it that it’s legal under UK law to own bird egg collections (assuming they date from the time when egg collecting was not illegal) but that it’s not legal to sell them. Is that right or is it more complicated than that?

 

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Marmot

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• Mar 17, 2010

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They had him on the local news last week and he was trying to make it out that he knew nothing about it being illegal and that he was complaining about the way how he had been arrested and questioned....Didnt feel sorry for him though, surely any auctioneer knows what they are not allowed to sell.

If I remember correctly this cabinet collection had came from a deceased person house.

 

Quercus

homo sarkensis

• Mar 18, 2010

• #6

Ignorance is no defence under the law!

As an auctioneer it is his responsibility not to be selling prohibited goods of any kind, and therefore his duty to know what can and can't be sold.

 

Gill Osborne

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• Mar 18, 2010

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I live just around the corner from these auction rooms :-O

My first thought, when I heard about it, was ''What a pillock - everyone knows it's illegal!!!'' :smoke: I knew that when I was only a wee nipper!

But the folk up here DO tend to just go ahead and do what THEY want

He'll probably get off with a slapped wrist and told not to do it again.....and then he'll go bleating top the local paper about how he was victimised :-O

 

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fugl

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• Mar 18, 2010

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fugl said:

I’m curious about the law involved here. I take it that it’s legal under UK law to own bird egg collections (assuming they date from the time when egg collecting was not illegal) but that it’s not legal to sell them. Is that right or is it more complicated than that?

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I’m beginning to think nobody’s going to answer this.

 

dantheman

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• Mar 18, 2010

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fugl said:

I’m curious about the law involved here. I take it that it’s legal under UK law to own bird egg collections (assuming they date from the time when egg collecting was not illegal) but that it’s not legal to sell them. Is that right or is it more complicated than that?

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Googling "law on owning bird eggs";

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7475.aspx

Seems you're right if the info in the link is correct ...

(I believe this is the answer? )

 

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fugl

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• Mar 18, 2010

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dantheman said:

Googling "law on owning bird eggs";


http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7475.aspx

Seems you're right if the info in the link is correct ...

(I believe this is the answer? )

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Many thanks for the link. Leaves some ambiguities, but interesting reading nevertheless.

 

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mamo

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• Mar 18, 2010

• #11

This is such a heinous crime, he'll probably get the full 6 months in jail!!!!

 

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BF Newsroom

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• Mar 31, 2010

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Bird eggs auctioneer fined £1,000 (BBC News)

A Northumberland auctioneer is fined after trying to sell an Edwardian cabinet containing 100-year-old bird eggs.

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Marmot

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• Apr 1, 2010

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JUst for an update, this was on the local news last night that he had been fined £1000.

Yes a good result, but the thing I find slightly annoying is that when people who have actually been and taken eggs from nests of protected species and have a collection of them get nowhere near this fine.

 

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Peewit

Once a bird lover ... always a bird lover

• Apr 1, 2010

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Marmot said:

JUst for an update, this was on the local news last night that he had been fined £1000.

Yes a good result, but the thing I find slightly annoying is that when people who have actually been and taken eggs from nests of protected species and have a collection of them get nowhere near this fine.

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Hi Marmot

Thank you for the information

Exactly Marmot ...it does not get to the root of the issue at all does it! :-C

I find this statement hard to take in, but it may be how the press have taken it on board.

.......Railton, a former RSPB member, added: "I can sell a stuffed golden eagle but if that eagle happens to have an egg in the case with it, it is illegal."......

Regards

Kathy and Dave

 

Adam W

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• Apr 1, 2010

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Peewit said:

.......Railton, a former RSPB member, added: "I can sell a stuffed golden eagle but if that eagle happens to have an egg in the case with it, it is illegal."......

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To be fair he's got a point there, that does seem a rather silly law but its still up to him to know what he can and cant sell.