THE Hares of Hampshire from the summer's public art trail have been sold off to there forever homes for thousands of pounds each.
On Tuesday, September 27 the Hares of Hampshire went under the hammer in a finale auction raising money for the Murray Parish Trust to fund new equipment for children’s emergency care at Southampton Hospital.
After ten weeks of being on display around Winchester and Southampton and a two week delay due to the country being in mourning, the hares said their final farewell over the weekend.
More than 70 vibrantly designed hares and leverets were gathered together outside the Great Hall in Winchester from Friday, September 23 to Sunday, September 25 before the grand auction conducted by TV personality and renowned auctioneer Charles Hanson.
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Visitors were welcomed to watch the auction and bid for a hare of their own inside the Great Hall or online from 6.30pm. All 31 of the larger hare sculptures, designed by artists, and four of the smaller leverets went up for sale. Top sellers included ‘The Wishing Hare’ a mosaic of mirrors design created by Sophy Handy and the LEPUS Roman Hare as designed by Emma Abel which both sold for £8500.
Organisers are busy still totting up the results but have revealed approximately £180,000 was raised from bidders alone. Head of operations, Sam Robson said: “We’ve now got the morning after the night before chaos with moving all the hares and getting them to their homes but it was a great event.”
Auction results: (Click the read more links to read the story behind the hare)
Hero Hare - £4200
Poly - £7800
A Wild Walk On The Downs - £6000
Dazzle - £8000
Hero Leveret - £2100
H.R.Hare - £7000
Flora & The Midnight Garden - £6100
Caring For the Natural World - £3400
McGregor - £7800
LEPUS Roman Hare - £8500
Hartley Hare - £3400
How Many Rabbits in a Rabbyte? - £3600
Armoured Hare of Winchester - £6300
Forget Me Not - £4600
Shine Bright Through the Dark - £2800
Alloy Jack - £6200
Allo Junior (leveret) - £3200
Hockley Hare - £3600
Mr March - £5400
Tjilli's Hare Painting - £1300
Hare of the Dog - £3700
Chalk Stream River Itchen - £6900
Our Hidden Wildlife World (leveret) - £1900
I Wish My Love Was A Cherry - £6000
Captain Discovery - £5800
The Wishing Hare - £8500
Doodle Hare - £3600
Rusty - £5200
24 Carrot Hare - £3900
Wavy Hare! - £5800
Patient Milo Spider-Hare (leveret) - £2500
Look Up and Within - £8200
Doctor Who Hare - £3400
Oriana - £3900
Be Your Beautiful Self - £6200
Pierre the Hampshire Hare - £6500
Grand Total - £183, 300
For more go to haresofhampshire.co.uk/.
To watch the Chronicle's Facebook Live video with all the hares in the Great Hall courtyard with trail manager Julie Mountain and operations manager Sam Robson click the video below.
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