I've been a fan of the Breyer/Hagen-Renaker Kelso for a long time, so the picture caught my eye. And after a closer look, I thought the model just might be the Sears special run from the early 1990s, which was sold with Sam Savitt's How to Draw Horses book. I didn't have one - it was a run of 900, according to Nancy Young's Breyer book, and I kept getting outbid online.
The seller was selling a bunch of odds and ends, not a collector, so it was kind of a crap shoot, but I took a chance on bidding without any other pictures.
So I kept an eye on the auction, put in an early bid to remind myself about the auction, and managed to park myself in front of the PC as the auction closed to put in a higher bid. My luck was good, and I was the high bidder. A few days later, UPS delivered a box of 3 well-wrapped horses. Two were in kind of scruffy shape, but the Kelso was the Sears Savitt SR, and he's in darned good shape, all things considered.
Ear rubs, of course, a small flaw on his face (which I didn't notice until DH pointed it out, somehow), and a small faint rub or two. Otherwise, for a 20-year-old donation, not bad.
Of the other two, the Proud Arabian Stallion was also a Sears SR, and the Family Arabian Stallion was a short-release from the 80s or 90s. Both are pretty rubbed up, more than you could tell from the pictures, but they'll be good toys for my little boy if he wants them.
Kelso, on the other hand, is mine. I can mark something off the grail list, finally. And maybe, someday, I'll be able to afford a Hagen-Renaker Kelso to sit on the shelf beside him. For right now, though, he's sitting on the printer by the PC.
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