Showing posts with label CWP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CWP. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2020
Vintage Chestnut Cantering Welsh Pony
I found this lovely vintage CWP on eBay.
Cantering Welsh Pony, #105, 1971-1976, has USA stamp, $8, eBay, Dawn Lovett, Worton, MD
Friday, October 14, 2016
Smokin' Doubledutch
I am so glad I checked Tuesday Morning again. This time they had more stock in. I collect vintage molds, and the Cantering Welsh Pony came out in the early 1970s so this piece came home with me. Originally priced at $22.
Smokin' Doubledutch, $15, #1738, 2015-2016, Tuesday Morning, Lafayette, Indiana, 10/2016.
Friday, March 25, 2016
My Girl, Vintage Club #2 for 2016
The second release in the Vintage Club is the CWP in three different colors.
Mine arrived yesterday and the box has a bay CWP on it. Apparently they are all like that, because inside was this:
VC My Girl, $127.50, #712169, 3/2016, Breyer/Reeves.
She's a chalky - just look at that mane!
You hit the ball out of the park with this one, Breyer!!
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Cantering Welsh Pony
Breyer's Cantering Welsh Pony was hugely popular when introduced in the 1970s, but I didn't get one until the later 1980s. The CWP sold well and showed well, too.
I only have four now, and one of my "model regrets" is selling my most valuable CWP, the Small World special run with gold braids. I got it through my friend, Beth Dickinson, and sold it years later as I needed the shelf space and my family needed the cash. Since I'd said I would sell models if need be, I needed to put my money where my mouth was, and so I did. (I got over $100 for her if I remember right.)
Breyer History Diva wrote about this mold on her blog this week, and I am cutting and pasting part of that post to document the information.
From Breyer History Diva, September 14, 2012
One of my newer additions here - part of my latest box lot purchase - is this pretty solid-faced variation of the #105 Chestnut Cantering Welsh Pony:
Even though I seem to have an insanely large number of Cantering Welshies, this is the first solid-faced Chestnut I’ve had the pleasure of owning.
I don’t know why I didn’t see the need for having one before; I remember being very, very obsessed with getting the original bald-faced version of the Chestnut when it was discontinued in 1976. That was a couple of years before I became involved in the hobby, and the only way I could obtain such a rare and valuable creature was to harass my parents into dragging me to every toy store within a reasonable driving distance to our house.
(FYI: Mission accomplished.)
In 1979 Breyer brought her back, "by popular demand". It wasn’t all that unusual a maneuver in the 1970s; the scuttlebutt I heard was that it was done, primarily, to get rid of warehouse backstock. If the initial sales were good enough, they would put the item back into full production.
Such was the case with the Cantering Welsh: not only are most of the later pieces painted differently than the earlier ones - with solid faces and no ribbons - they also sport the "B" mold mark, common on molds from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The solid-faced Cantering Welsh Ponies are somewhat less common than the bald-faced ones: the bald-faced pieces were available from 1971 through 1976, while the solid-faced ones were available from 1979 through 1981. There’s not a huge difference in the price between the two of them, though, since the demand for the mold isn’t what it used to be.
I only have four now, and one of my "model regrets" is selling my most valuable CWP, the Small World special run with gold braids. I got it through my friend, Beth Dickinson, and sold it years later as I needed the shelf space and my family needed the cash. Since I'd said I would sell models if need be, I needed to put my money where my mouth was, and so I did. (I got over $100 for her if I remember right.)
Breyer History Diva wrote about this mold on her blog this week, and I am cutting and pasting part of that post to document the information.
From Breyer History Diva, September 14, 2012
One of my newer additions here - part of my latest box lot purchase - is this pretty solid-faced variation of the #105 Chestnut Cantering Welsh Pony:
Even though I seem to have an insanely large number of Cantering Welshies, this is the first solid-faced Chestnut I’ve had the pleasure of owning.
I don’t know why I didn’t see the need for having one before; I remember being very, very obsessed with getting the original bald-faced version of the Chestnut when it was discontinued in 1976. That was a couple of years before I became involved in the hobby, and the only way I could obtain such a rare and valuable creature was to harass my parents into dragging me to every toy store within a reasonable driving distance to our house.
(FYI: Mission accomplished.)
In 1979 Breyer brought her back, "by popular demand". It wasn’t all that unusual a maneuver in the 1970s; the scuttlebutt I heard was that it was done, primarily, to get rid of warehouse backstock. If the initial sales were good enough, they would put the item back into full production.
Such was the case with the Cantering Welsh: not only are most of the later pieces painted differently than the earlier ones - with solid faces and no ribbons - they also sport the "B" mold mark, common on molds from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The solid-faced Cantering Welsh Ponies are somewhat less common than the bald-faced ones: the bald-faced pieces were available from 1971 through 1976, while the solid-faced ones were available from 1979 through 1981. There’s not a huge difference in the price between the two of them, though, since the demand for the mold isn’t what it used to be.
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