Thanks to Vinted, Ebay, and other online things, I've added some Durham metal horses, found a mini copy of the SM Morgan Stallion on a pencil sharpener, and discovered two miniature copies of the Classic Arabian Mare (or, to be technical, of the Hagen-Renaker Arabian mare).
The gray is about Stablemate scale
Finally have the oddball Durham that isn't a Breyer/HR or Hartland copy.
The HR/SM Morgan Stallion is a longtime favorite, so I can't pass up a Durham version at a decent price.
I lucked into a Craft House Arabian on Vinted last month. Browsing around, and saw an unlabeled but recognizable shape, and a good price. The paint job is iffy, especially the red stripe on the legs, but this one is intact. My other Arabian has a great paint job but missing a leg. I may have to strip this one and repaint him.
Ignore the photobombers - a couple of Durham metal horses, a Breyer Xmas stablemate, and my new Alchemy Shire.
So far, I've got maybe half of the Craft House molds - Quarter Horse, Arabian, Pony, and one of the dogs. I'd like to find all of the horses and dogs, but they're old, unmarked unless they're still in the box, and probably weren't that common to start with.
My luck this year has been surprisingly good, for the most part. I got picked for three Web Specials - Brazil, Sao Paulo, and now Breckenridge! On the other hand, I ordered 4 of the Halloween blind bags and got four Stitches. Just ordered four of the Winter blind bags, and I'm hoping I don't have to swap three of them again.
Breckenridge isn't blue, but purple is close enough. And I bought the Classic winter deco and the winter plush to go along with him - both of those are blue.
I really need to get pictures of all my Lakeshore china horses. I seem to have accumulated quite a few. Just ordered two more - Cindy, the owner of Lakeshore, is downsizing her storage and potentially retiring, so all the horses are half-price. And that was the kick I needed to order the last two (I think) that I don't have - Touch of the Sky, in buckskin and black tobiano.
And now I really need to make time to rearrange the curio cabinets.
Bought some more horses at the consignment auction last month. Nice vintage ones, like Proud Arabians, a Jumper with his wall, a very white Misty, and a second Clydesdale set with green blankets. I thought for half a day that the Proud Arabians were something special, being bays with blazes but no socks. Turns out, as someone on Facebook pointed out, they used to have socks, before someone had some fun with a presumed Sharpie. So, I spent an hour or so with rubbing alcohol and q-tips, and made a tiny dent in the Sharpie. At that rate, though, I'll never get all the socks off. Other than that, though, they look really nice.
Well, I may not ever get the variants of the Breyerfest Stablemates, but I got picked todahy to buy a Belize, the latest in the World Destinations series (or whatever they're calling it). Sham in a blue ocean color.
I do wish Breyer would give up on these tiny, thin mailing boxes for the SMs though. Most of the Kiana boxes have looked like mine, or worse.
