Originate
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Approximately in the year 1840 in England the flying tippler sport arises. In those days they flew a lot with tumblers and rolling pigeons, that showed there tricks already during several hours.
The English people, it runs in their blood to make a sport out of everything, so it didn’t take them much time to start tournaments with the pigeons who could fly the most hours .
The tumbling and rolling slowly disappeared form these pigeons, by interbreeding them with the highflying pigeons, the flying tippler as we all now them nowadays was created.
The flying tippler sport was mostly a sport of the miners, so especially in those area’s, were there were mines, the sport was very popular. Because of the almost no transportation possibilities (and the financial means) in those days, every area had also his own type of flying tipplers.
Because the arising of a lot of different type of flying tipplers, because of the interbreeding, all kinds of tumblers/rolling pigeons with high flying pigeons, the different types also had there very own recognizable appearances/looks. Also the flying style was different and recognizable in the various tipplers from the different area’s. The Manchester type for example flew very high compared with the Sheffield type which was more the low flying type.
In those days a flying time of more than 12 hours was a rarity. Later on the flying tippler sport became more and more organized in sport tournaments/matches. There were made match regulations en there were organized national matches/tournaments in which all tippler friends of England took part at the same day. Records were acknowledged nationally and so the flying tippler sport had become a real matching sport!
Source: J. de Wit, Jubileumboek NVC 1994.
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Origination / Arise in the Netherlands:
Long before world war 2 there were some pigeon keepers that had also tipplers in their lofts, especially in Amsterdam where they called them ‘trippelaars’ or ‘trippen’. They were kept together with Dutch high flying pigeons. At the so called pigeon platforms in the beginning of the last century, you always could see some ‘trippen’ between a lot of ‘Hagenaars’ and Dutch high flying pigeons. In those days they were little, short beaked and in the colors blue, gray and ‘storked’.
These distinguished breed marks were fixed especially during the pigeon market held each Saturday near the ‘Noorder’church in Amsterdam. Big discussions took place about type, color, beak etc. About one thing they all agreed, the great desire to fly and the longflying that was inbred in these ‘trippen’ or tipplers as we call them.
In those days there were no organized tippler clubs, let along flying matches. As said before during the pigeon market it mostly were the same people who were present. To call the gentlemen Seelt, Eykelenburg and van der Wel (the later founder of the NVC (Dutch Flying tippler Club)). This is how in 1948 the Dutch Tippler Club (NTC) was founded. There had to come a standard of how the tippler should look like for possible future exhibitions. After some discussion about how this standard should be (weather the NTC should become an exhibition club or a flying club the club (NTC) was dissolved in 1958!
It was Bertus van der Wel, as named in the above, who founded the NVC (Dutch Flying tippler Club) in 1959. He imported in 1948 ‘’real’’ Sheffield tipplers and one Macclesfield to the Netherlands, in the colors black, red and gray. Later on numerous more, like Manchesters from Jac. Boden, Lovatt Marlow, Hughes.
Also H.G v.d. Broek imported the black Sheffields from Meredith to our country. Much later (early 90’s) it were the gentlemen G. de Vries and P.F. v.d. Werf who imported the so called blue Irish tipplers.
The mostly red, black or blue flying tipplers who we can nowadays see in the Dutch lofts, are almost all descendants of the here above named imported flying tipplers.
Source: J.E van der Wel brochure 1962.
