A novelty dartboard has failed to sell at auction in spite of featuring the portrait of one of the 21st century’s best known caricatures of a human.
Bidding for the board was expected to be intense, especially amongst collectors of memorabilia from 1930’s and 1940’s Germany.
”We figured internet bidding would have been very extreme,” an auction house representative told LCD Views, “like far, far right out there. But it seems the expected collectors didn’t turn up on the day, presumably because even they had better things to do than throw money at the novelty dartboard. Like donating to the defence funds of convicted fraudsters.”
Further perplexing the sellers was the fact that no one wanted to buy the dartboard for the express purpose of throwing darts at the smug, self-deluding, hate peddling little Kremlin stooge featured.
”It seems no one even wants the image in their house,” the rep shrugged, “probably worried about what people would think if they inadvertently saw it on your wall? What would it say about a person and their judgement? Especially if it was mistaken for a serious portrait? That could potentially be very embarrassing.”
What will happen to the novelty dartboard now is anyone’s guess, although we did suggest just giving the dartboard to the individual featured?
“No. That’s no good. He can’t stand to look at himself.”
Then donate it to a good cause?
”It definitely couldn’t be donated to a good cause. There are no good causes associated with the individual pictured in the portrait. None whatsoever.”