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Rudolf Lausberg: "The whole nursery is a pigsty"
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"The whole nursery is a pigsty": A pensioner from Cologne is looking for buyers for an almost unmanageable collection of decorative pigs.
His wife Hannelore, who died about a year ago, collected them, said 85-year-old Rudolf Lausberg of the German Press Agency.
The whole apartment is now full of it, including the former children's room.
"Fabric pigs, iron pigs, glass pigs - in all variations." There are also pictures and books with pig content.
Lausberg estimates the pig collection to be around 4,000 specimens.
The 85-year-old is considering donating at least part of the proceeds to a good cause.
He is thinking of a donation for the flood victims in the Ahr valley.
Several Cologne media had reported on the 85-year-old and his collection.
His wife's passion still comes from childhood - she owned a pig at the time.
According to the former fence farmer ("I have fenced in practically the whole of Cologne"), the collecting fever began with a first decorative pig that was bought in downtown Cologne.
That cost 100 marks back then, a lot of money.
The couple was married for 58 years.
Lausberg says he did not persuade his wife: "I was delighted myself that my wife had so much fun with it."
ptz / dpa
