Winning bids at Waddle of Worcester

Bids exceeding £330,000 were received at St Richard’s Hospice auction for 41 penguin statues from the popular Waddle of Worcester trail.

The collection included 40 large penguins and one baby penguin. The auction, led by experienced auctioneer Philip Serrell at the DRPG building in Hartlebury, saw impressive bids with ‘Waddle I Do Without You’ fetching the highest value of £21,000.

Additionally, four other sculptures sold for over £10,000 each.

Here’s the full list of the winning bids:

1. Starlit Journey: £11,000
2. Welcome to Worcester: £5,000
3. Sanctuary: £6,000
4. Skating on the Severn: £14,000
5. Nebula: £6,000
6. Picasso Penguin: £6,500
7. Sprinkle: £5,500
8. Azura: £7,500
9. Fisherman’s Friend: £20,000
10. Wish Upon a Star: £5,500
11. Percy: £6,000
12. Doing the Worcester Wiggle: £7,500
13. PengBot001: £7,500
14. I Spy Penguin: £5,000
15. It’s ‘penguin-ing’ to look a lot like Christmas!: £5,000
16. Penguin on Holiday: £6,000
17. Edmund Ironsides: £18,000
18. Penguins at Play: £5,500
19. Blossom: £6,000
20. Kingfisher Azure: £8,500
21. Fancy a Cake?: £9,000
22. Blue Penguin: £7,000
23. Precious Penguin: £8,000
24. Ice-Ickle: £8,000
25. Hairy Monster: £4,000
26. Little Blue Makes a Wish: £7,500
27. Woolly Waddler: £8,000
28. Doodle McZenguin: £6,500
29. Elgar’s Enigma: £6,500
30. Captain Blackbeak: £8,000
31. Kingsley the Kaleidoscope Penguin: £9,000
32. Dr Waddlecog of Worcester: £8,500
33. Wiggly Waddle: £8,000
34. Eighties Eddie: £7,000
35. Silk Snowdrops: £7,000
36. Waddle I Do Without You: £21,000
37. Flower Queen: £6,500
38. The Swan: £8,000
39. Calvin the Copperplate Penguin: £6,000
40. Spirit: £7,500
41. Conservenguin: £7,000