Flea Market Finds

I got to go to a couple of flea market/antique malls this week, and actually (for a change) found something worth buying. Usually, all I find are bashed-around Breyers with astronomical price tags: $35 for a Misty with missing paint and large Crayon decorations, $50 for a "vintage Breyer" that was actually a common-as-dirt lemon-yellow FAS, and so on.

I still found a good population of overpriced Breyers this time, but I also found, and bought, a Hartland grazing mare and a dapple grey "Noble Jumper" (Halla mold). The Hartland is the first one I've seen in real life that I know of, and the first I've bought. She's a nice dapple grey, and other than a slightly bent foreleg, there are only a few small rubs. Considering that she was just stuck on a shelf and not in a glass case, she's in lovely shape. The Halla is also grey, Breyer's lovely splatter dapples, but again, in lovely condition. She was in a glass case, and I thought worth the $15 price. Also in the case were two old SMs, missing large amounts of paint, for $5 each, and the stallion from the Classic Andalusian family, for $10 I think.

New Arrivals

Fed Ex delivered a box yesterday that I've been waiting a week for. Okay, not a long wait, but I'm not a patient person sometimes.

I bought a pair of Stone Palouses, two variations of Fiesta, the SR for the El Paso Equine Art show. One is one of 78 done in a satin finish with a blaze. The other is one of only 10 (*) with a matte finish and a star. Technically, she's one of 5, since 5 of the 10 were customized before the show. This one, so far, is my rarest horse, other than one or two customized models.