Joanie's response? It was mine for $100. I could not believe my good fortune!
The piece arrived Thursday night.
Thank you, Joanie!!
Showing posts with label Lippizaner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lippizaner. Show all posts
Saturday, May 13, 2017
HR DW Lippizaner
Joanie Berkwitz of Pour Horse Pottery fame sold me this HR DW Lippizaner. She posted some pictures on Facebook of things she was rehoming, including some broken pieces. I asked about this piece and what she wanted for it; Joanie replied that she didn't know its value. So, I went online and found one with great detail for $650 and another for $350. I shared that information with her, and then told her that, in all honesty, that was beyond what I could justify paying for the piece and why I had waited decades to find one. I explained that my budget was $125-$150 and that I understood if she felt that was too low for the piece.
Joanie's response? It was mine for $100. I could not believe my good fortune!
HR DW Lippizaner, B-653, San Marcos, 1983-1984, $100, Joanie Berkwitz, Carlsbad CA.
Per Ed Alcorn's Helan Renaker Museum, the horse on the right matches my piece well. He says it is a San Marcos piece and is from 1983-1984.
The detail is soft and it has that lovely crazing typical of older pieces. It also has bi-eyes!
I also bought the sheep for $16 - the Japan set on the left is very close to a set I was given by my Aunt Fay as a child; the resin sheep on the right were a surprise.
Thank you, Joanie!!
Joanie's response? It was mine for $100. I could not believe my good fortune!
Thank you, Joanie!!
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Spanish Riding School of Vienna Gift Set
I have wanted this piece for a LONG time, and watched several go for more money than I wanted to pay on eBay and other model sales site. So, when I saw it listed for $75 plus free shipping (while another was listed at $170 with shipping extra!) I bid on it and won!
Spanish Riding School of Vienna Gift Set, #3393, 2001 only, 5000 made, $75 eBay/L. Comfort of Pittsburgh, PA, 2/2015
The model is a beautiful pearly white with a pink muzzle.
Back of box.
Inside the lid that lifts up.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Lippizaners
(From Breyer History Diva, February, 2011)
For no particular reason, I was thinking about the Classic Lipizzan mold today. It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen him last - in 2003 and 2004, as the 3365 Mystical Pegasus. And even longer since we’ve seen him as an actual Lipizzan, the last being a shaded Alabaster Special Run made for the touring show "The Wonderful World of Horses," in the 1990s (starting in 1993, and running until …well, I don’t know. Through most of the 1990s, at least. It was one of those open-ended Specials.)
This guy's the regular run #620, with better-than-average shading. Early ones tended to have extra facial shading and more pronounced ventral stripes. The two later SR Alabasters - the 1992 German SR, and the touring show SR - had grayer hooves, and more body shading.
Most of his releases have been of the fantastical type - either as Pegasi, or Unicorns - in various shades of Black, White or (inexplicably) Blue. I’m not a huge fan of the fantasy horses, but I do like the Lipizzan mold, so I have most of them. But not all: y’all know I don’t do flockies. I have not been, and never will be, in the market for one of those creepy flocked blue things from the 1985 J. C. Penney’s Christmas Catalog. (They disturb me so much I prefer to not even acknowledge their existence, most days. Glass eyes = Always a bad idea, Custom or OF.)
There’s a possibility that we’ll see the mold again at BreyerFest, if his prior history is any indication. They’ve already announced an SR Unicorn, so there has to be an SR Pegasus in the mix somewhere, and he’s the most logical candidate.
I’m okay with that, as long as they do something a little more original with his coloring - a wild Dark Dappled Gray (like the Traditional Pluto release of Embajador IX) would look pretty neat, as would a Charcoal or (swoon!) Silver Filigree. Anything Decoratory will do, just as long as they don’t fall back on their "Pastel Alabaster" cliché.
If I had the preference, I’d rather have him back as a plain old Lipizzan, again - no wings, no horns, no unnatural colors. He doesn’t have to be some shade of Aged Gray or Alabaster, either: there are all sorts of historical colors to choose from - Pintos, Appaloosas, Duns - but I’d be cool with a Dark Dappled Gray, too.
What I’m really pining for is a simple, straight up Bay. I’m not asking for anything fancy - a little bit of white, a little pangare, a hint of shimmer - all the usual details they pack on a standard OF paint job nowadays. I just hope that if they do make one - for BreyerFest, or any other occasion - they are not quite as rare as the real thing.
For no particular reason, I was thinking about the Classic Lipizzan mold today. It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen him last - in 2003 and 2004, as the 3365 Mystical Pegasus. And even longer since we’ve seen him as an actual Lipizzan, the last being a shaded Alabaster Special Run made for the touring show "The Wonderful World of Horses," in the 1990s (starting in 1993, and running until …well, I don’t know. Through most of the 1990s, at least. It was one of those open-ended Specials.)
This guy's the regular run #620, with better-than-average shading. Early ones tended to have extra facial shading and more pronounced ventral stripes. The two later SR Alabasters - the 1992 German SR, and the touring show SR - had grayer hooves, and more body shading.
Most of his releases have been of the fantastical type - either as Pegasi, or Unicorns - in various shades of Black, White or (inexplicably) Blue. I’m not a huge fan of the fantasy horses, but I do like the Lipizzan mold, so I have most of them. But not all: y’all know I don’t do flockies. I have not been, and never will be, in the market for one of those creepy flocked blue things from the 1985 J. C. Penney’s Christmas Catalog. (They disturb me so much I prefer to not even acknowledge their existence, most days. Glass eyes = Always a bad idea, Custom or OF.)
There’s a possibility that we’ll see the mold again at BreyerFest, if his prior history is any indication. They’ve already announced an SR Unicorn, so there has to be an SR Pegasus in the mix somewhere, and he’s the most logical candidate.
I’m okay with that, as long as they do something a little more original with his coloring - a wild Dark Dappled Gray (like the Traditional Pluto release of Embajador IX) would look pretty neat, as would a Charcoal or (swoon!) Silver Filigree. Anything Decoratory will do, just as long as they don’t fall back on their "Pastel Alabaster" cliché.
If I had the preference, I’d rather have him back as a plain old Lipizzan, again - no wings, no horns, no unnatural colors. He doesn’t have to be some shade of Aged Gray or Alabaster, either: there are all sorts of historical colors to choose from - Pintos, Appaloosas, Duns - but I’d be cool with a Dark Dappled Gray, too.
What I’m really pining for is a simple, straight up Bay. I’m not asking for anything fancy - a little bit of white, a little pangare, a hint of shimmer - all the usual details they pack on a standard OF paint job nowadays. I just hope that if they do make one - for BreyerFest, or any other occasion - they are not quite as rare as the real thing.
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