Gold Charm Running Mare

After BreyerFest, the prices on models go down as everyone tries to sell models in order to recoup what they spent at the event. This means people are more willing to make a deal rather than wait for someone willing to pay a higher price to come along, and as a result, you can get some real bargains.

Like this Gold Charm Running Mare!

 Gold Charm Running Mare, #3120, 1963-1964, $550 (includes $15 shipping), 9/2018. eBay, Zana Goulding, Spokane, WA. (Selling for a friend of hers.)

 The mare has some black marks, tiny scratches, and small rubs, but for a piece that is 55 years old, and for that price, I am delighted to have found her!

I also bought her herd mate - I wonder how long these two have been together?

My Second Real Decorator

How ironic that I have looked for decorators for years and years, decades even, without success, and then I find two in the space of one month.

(Photos from eBay auction.)

Gold Charm Running Foal, #3130, 1963-1964, $265, eBay, 3/2018, Marsha Alesi, 7630 Chicago Dr., La Mesa, CA 91941.

 He has some black marks and a chipped eartip, but is still beautiful.

I am thrilled to add this piece to my collection.

And I have to smile - it has been a very rainy spring break - I guess when it rains, it pours!

Vintage Club #3 2015 - Running Stallion

Gold charm as been my least favorite decorator color ever since the gold charm Secretariats were produced. So, when it was announced that offering #3 from the Vintage Collectors Club would be a decorator, I hoped I would not get one in gold charm.

And then I saw a picture of one on Model Horse Blab and changed my mind. Good thing, too, because mine is a gold charm! And I LOVE it!!

Sailor, #712143, 3rd offering in 2015 Vintage Collectors Club, $135, 125 pieces made in each of four decorator colors. (This is gold charm.)