Word: auction
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...horns on that one," game farmer Richard Horsley says admiringly, pointing to a large male nyala, one of 10 coarse-haired African antelope waiting to go on the block at the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife game auction in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi regional park in northern KwaZulu- Natal. "They've got a nice turn to them and they're spread nice and far, tip to tip. That's a beauty." "Very symmetrical," agrees a friend. I want to show off my animal knowledge, so I break in: "The horns are a good indicator of the animal's health, no?" The men turn...
...with it," says Jeff Gaisford, media manager with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, which runs some 100 parks in the province and organizes the auction. Some farmers offer tourists game drives and walks, others offer hunting safaris. Some even offer both - though not at the same time. The industry is now worth about $140 million a year, according to the local Northern Game Ranchers' Association. Game animals in southern Africa are traded much the same as any other goods, and the Ezemvelo auction sets the standard for prices every year. Game-park ranchers fly in from as far away as Texas...
SOLD. "BLACKIE," Eric Clapton's favorite guitar; to an undisclosed buyer; for a record $959,500; in New York. The legendary rocker auctioned the Fender Stratocaster, his sole studio and stage guitar from 1970 to 1985, along with 56 others, at a charity auction to raise money for the Crossroads Center Antigua, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the West Indies...
...Price paid for a pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers from his 1984 debut season in the NBA, in an online auction to benefit a children's hospital in Shanghai...
Alfred Hitchcock's passport and one of WILLIE WONKA'S ORIGINAL GOLDEN TICKETS are among items being offered at a private auction for the school's 75th anniversary