The Fleece Off Ewe 042.
One fleece, from one named ewe, rolled and skirted on the day of shearing and sent raw rather than washed.
The lot, in full.
Specification
- Weight
- About 2.5kg, raw
- Breed
- A commercial ewe off this farm, not a rare breed
- Condition
- Skirted, rolled, unwashed. It will smell of sheep
- Market value as wool
- Roughly a pound
- Shearing cost per ewe
- Between one and two pounds
- Included
- The ewe’s record, and a photograph of her looking unimpressed
Every figure here is a term of the lot. Where something is an expectation rather than a promise — an outturn, a date — the row says so.
The scandal in one lot.
A fleece is worth about a pound and costs more than that to remove. Shearing is done for welfare rather than for money, and British wool has been in that position for most of two decades.
The three things worth knowing before you bid.
What you can actually do with it
Wash it, card it, spin it. It makes a jumper’s worth of yarn and about four evenings of swearing.
Why it sells for a hundred and eighty
Because it is a named animal on a programme people watch, which is the entire thesis of this platform expressed in two and a half kilos of greasy wool.
The ewe
Stays here. Obviously.
Where this lot sits against the others.
| Lot | Current bid | Reserve | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cask 001 — first fill, ex-bourbon | £2,850 | £2,400 | Cask |
| The fleece off ewe 042 | £185 | £120 | Produce |
| A working day with Kaleb Cooper | £4,100 | £2,500 | Experience |
| The first crate off the new line | £640 | £400 | Object |
| The last hundredweight of the 2025 durum | £310 | None | Produce |
| One metre of wall, built with Gerald | £950 | £600 | Experience |
This build takes no bids
Every auction control on this site is a placeholder. No bid is binding, no card is taken, no lot is allocated and the bid histories are illustrative. A real version of this would need consumer auction terms, a clear description of the contract of sale, and — for the cask — a warehouse keeper approved under HMRC’s Warehousekeepers and Owners of Warehoused Goods Regulations.
The other lots
Back to the floor.
Six lots, all closing at eight on Sunday.
