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The auction of the ‘century’ !!<br />
The auction that the whole international pigeon<br />
world is looking for, because the ‘crown jewels’<br />
<strong>from</strong> <strong>As</strong> are coming to Thorn (Holland)<br />
‘Wonderboy’ <strong>Jos</strong> THONE<br />
<strong>from</strong> Niel-bij-<strong>As</strong> (B)<br />
The ‘All-round Champion Nr 1 of Belgium’...<br />
met op zijn palmares o.a.<br />
6 x 1st National victories<br />
2 x 1st International victories<br />
1st National Champion KBDB Youngsters<br />
Winner of 6 Olympic pigeons<br />
4 x World champion<br />
5 x ‘Gouden Duif’-winner<br />
12 x 1st National Champion BDS<br />
14 x 1st National Champion LCB<br />
55 x 1st Provincial<br />
257 x within the ‘Top - 100’ National<br />
<strong>Jos</strong> was already crawling in the pigeon lofts of his<br />
father before he had grown out of his nappy, and later<br />
he couldn’t be kept away. At school he spent more<br />
time thinking about the pigeons than concentrating<br />
on the lessons… and during his free time he often<br />
visited his experienced ‘teacher’… Jan Grondelaers<br />
in Opglabbeek! It was already clear… that pigeons<br />
were going to play an important role in his life! It has<br />
all gone in breakneck speed since the period 1977-<br />
’91 when <strong>Jos</strong> was loft carer by (future) father-in-law<br />
Thomas Peeters & Sons in <strong>As</strong>. Thomas had asked<br />
‘father <strong>Thoné</strong>’ if he was interested in taking care of<br />
the loft for him. But he didn’t think he could manage<br />
all the work and so suggested that his son <strong>Jos</strong> (then<br />
16 years old) could help Thomas in cleaning the lofts.<br />
In addition to the mounds of droppings that <strong>Jos</strong> had<br />
scraped together there in the Grotstraat, he soon became<br />
familiar with the Peeters pigeons, and learned<br />
the first tricks of the trade. Relying on the experience<br />
of his future father-in-law Thomas and ‘scientifically<br />
supported’ by brother-in-law, veterinary surgeon Nor-<br />
2<br />
bert Peeters, <strong>Jos</strong> soon brought the Peeters-colony<br />
to the top of the international pigeon sport, with a<br />
title of ‘General Nat. Champion KBDB’ and 2 national<br />
victories as signboard. It seemed that <strong>Jos</strong> <strong>Thoné</strong> was<br />
capable of so much more than just cleaning the lofts<br />
he could let the pigeons flourish and bring them to a<br />
climax! The line of their ‘Gouden Grijze’, and pigeons<br />
so as the ‘Boeing’, ‘Pegasus’, the ‘Reus’, the ‘Witte<br />
Reus’, the ‘Korte Bek’, the ‘Perigueux’, the ‘Generaal’,<br />
the ‘Kleine Molenaar’ and not least the figurehead<br />
‘Diego Armando Barcelona’ were kneaded by<br />
<strong>Jos</strong> <strong>Thoné</strong> into pigeons with ‘world fame’. What noone<br />
can claim with certainty… but what can easily be<br />
seen by everybody, is… that the basis was laid here<br />
for a pigeon career, the like of which has never been<br />
known before!<br />
Butterflies in the stomach…<br />
<strong>Jos</strong> not only gained experience with the pigeons<br />
by Thomas Peeters… he also had ‘butterflies’ in<br />
the stomach. Because <strong>Jos</strong> had taken a fancy to the
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