Historical Notes
The Blue mutation made its first recorded appearance in 1878 in the aviaries of M Limbosch of Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, but this strain died out, it is believed, in 1881. Blues appeared independently in the Netherlands between 1881 and 1885, and a Mr Pauwels of Everberg, near Brussels, reintroduced them to Belgium from this Dutch strain.
The first Blues to be seen in England were some exhibited by Messrs Millsum and Pauwels at the Horticultural Hall in 1910 and the Crystal Palace in 1911. Mr D Astley owned Blues in 1911, and it is recorded that C Pelham Sutton of Putney bred a Blue in 1912.
Blues remained quite rare until the 1930s, fetching up to £100 per pair in Japan around 1928, about the cost of a car at the time.
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