I Won Magnus!

You've Been Selected to Purchase Our Father's Day Web Special - Magnus!    Congratulations! You have been chosen to purchase   Magnus, our Father's Day Special Run! On the third Sunday of June, we celebrate our fathers! In honor of this day, we've created "Magnus,"our Father's Day web special! Magnus is a lovely chalky dappled grey with a high gloss finish and features "Magnus 2012" written in silver on his belly. Decorated with silver and blue bobs and bows, Magnus would be a proud addition to any collection! ThisCollector Club exclusive limited edition would be a great gift for yourself or someone special this Father's Day!   Click Here to complete your purchase! (must be logged in)  Your price: $135.00 + S&H  Limited Edition: 222 pieces How to Buy and Conditions of Sale: Price: "Magnus" (Item# 712068) is a limited edition of 222 pieces and is offered for purchase by random drawing for $135.00 plus shipping and handling (limit one model per individual chosen). Order requests will be taken via the Breyer Website Entry Form from Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to 5pm EDT, June 5, 2012. One entry will be accepted per day, per person only. Entering more than one time per day will not increase your odds of being chosen. Duplicate emails or emails received outside the order request window will be rejected. By Wednesday, June 6, 2012, two hundred and twenty two (222) order requests plus a stand-by list will be selected at random (but not posted). Please do not call to see if you have been selected. We will contact those individuals who have been selected by email within 24 hours with instructions on how to complete their purchase. Shipping & handling is determined by ship method chosen at checkout (individuals with an international ship to address must choose international shipping). Individuals selected and contacted who are not available and/or have not supplied valid credit card or shipping information by 5:00 PM EDT on Thursday, June 7, 2012 will forfeit the opportunity to purchase the model and are automatically disqualified and the next individual on the stand-by list will be contacted. No exceptions. Please note: Unclaimed web special models may be sold by Reeves at a later date, at Reeves' sole discretion. Models will ship during the week of June 11, 2012.     Only credit cards will be accepted. No checks or money orders. Breyer retailers are not permitted to purchase web specials. Order requests by Breyer retailers will not be accepted. Sales tax will be charged for individuals who are chosen from NJ (7%). Breyer and/or Reeves International are not responsible for misdirected emails or incomplete/incorrect order requests. Void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law.

Chalky Magnus

(From Breyer History Diva, May, 2012)

The extra special secret ingredient to the Father’s Day Web Special Clydesdale, Magnus? He’s Chalky. Didn’t see that one coming. 

He’s glossy too, which certainly doesn’t hurt. There aren’t a whole lot of vintage Glossy Chalkies of any stripe floating around: the Gloss Finish was mostly discontinued by the heyday of the Chalky Era of the 1970s. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are the Brahma Bull and that small batch (five pieces) of Dapple Gray Shires.

There are some earlier Gloss Chalkies - the Walking Horned Hereford and the Bay Old Mold Mares and Foals being the most "common" of these, relatively speaking. Common the same way the "Full Rough" Walking Polled Hereford is compared to the "Poodle Cut" version, I mean.