New to Windsong: War Admiral

  It's no secret that I love Breyer's old molds. While so many of Breyer's new molds are lovely (Dundee! Giselle! Valegro!), they don't hark back to my childhood like the old molds do.

So, when I come across an old mold model unexpectedly, I always, always give it a second look.

Like this War Admiral from 2003 - 2004 that was still in his box nearly twenty years after being produced.

His shading is gorgeous!

And I inspected him as best I could without damaging either him or the box. (I am always intrigued when the bottom of the hooves on a model are unpainted and are not stark white plastic.)

A 2003 Breyer collectors catalog was still inside the box, but interestingly enough, War Admiral is not listed in it.

Another interesting thing to note is that the 2003 catalog was a change from past ones - it was longer and not the smaller, book-type that past catalogs had been. Breyer produced this style through 2006 and then in 2007 switched back to the earlier format.

I popped the catalog back into War Admiral's box and decided to leave the model in its box, at least for a while. Not for value purposes (original boxes are not as valued in the model horse hobby as they are in other hobbies) but because the box itself is really interesting.

There was another old mold model that was with him and she came home with me, too. She's in her original box and I will talk about her next. Any guesses as to who it is?

Stay 'tooned!