Collectibility Spotlight: Vintage Chalkies, Part 2

More vintage chalkies today! I did all the setup for chalkies in the last post, so let's just hop right to it today.

I've already described my love affair with both Arabians in general and the Classic Arabian Family in specific, so it's probably not a surprise that I have a chalky CAM & CAF from the #3055 Classic Arabian Family set. While not in the best condition, I found these two for the right price in room sales at BreyerFest 2022. I'm still on the hunt for a chalky CAS.

This guy is a fun story. On the Friday of BreyerFest 2022, I was sitting in our room at the Clarion, minding our room sales. My friend Kelly W walked in and handed this guy to me and said, "Do you want a chalky Belgian for $50? I found him for that price in a room and I already have one."

His show name is You Say Yes, because when your friend hands you a practically mint chalky #94 Belgian and asks if you want it for $50, you say yes.

 

My most recent chalky acquisition has just as memorable of a story as the first. 

In 2022, shows were resuming after a long break due to the pandemic. I and my friend Kelly W (the same one who handed me the chalky Belgian at BreyerFest) went to an all-collectibility show in Muncie, IN, in August. We antiqued at multiple places on the way there and back.

We hit the jackpot about 40 minutes west of Columbus, OH, at the Heart of Ohio Antique Center in Springfield. As a Columbus resident from 2002-2005, I'd been there multiple times and was already familiar with it. As you can see from the Google Maps photo, it's massive - over 1400 booths and 122,000 square feet of anything and everything you can imagine. Due to its size, Kelly and I adopted a "divide and conquer" strategy where she would go up the left side of a wing and I'd go up the right. (Because of how good our find that day was, we still adopt this strategy whenever we're antiquing together.)

In the furthest wing to the right, almost all the way in the back corner, Kelly shouted, "MEL, I FOUND THINGS!" I went running over. The booth was overflowing with Breyers. I picked up this alabaster Fighting Stallion, #30 King, and my jaw about hit the floor. I said, "KELLY, HE'S CHALKY." She smiled and said, "Uh-huh!" 

He was priced at $15. 

I thought sure she'd want him for her own incredible (and complete!) Fighting Stallion conga, but she said I could have him. She then took the below picture of me.

 

My face was ridiculous, so I named him Happy Face.

I spent about an hour in the hotel bathroom that evening, scrubbing the marks off him with a fingernail and hotel soap so I could show him the next day. I kept telling him how lovely he was as he got cleaned up, and Kelly laughed at me out in the main part of the room for murmuring sweet nothings to him.

Those are my chalkies so far. I wouldn't turn down any chalky if the price was right, but the only two I'm avidly hunting at the moment are the aforementioned #3055 CAS and a bay #141 Buttons Grazing Mare.