I've already talked about one of my best liberations ever - my chalky alabaster Fighting Stallion from the Heart of Ohio antique mall. He wasn't the only unexpectedly amazing find that weekend, so today's post is about the other, plus a not-amazing-by-hobby-standards-but-still-cool-to-me model, plus one tagalong who wasn't technically a liberation, but I'm cramming him in here anyway because he's related. Just go with it.
This is the 1982 Model Horse Congress Running Foal - and yes, he was right there in that same booth with the chalky Fighting Stallion. There were an estimated 315-344 made of this guy, as per Nancy Young's accounting from records she obtained from the company who ordered him, Bentley Sales Co. This little dude is hard to find and commands quite a price on the secondary market, so to find one hanging out in an antique mall with a ridiculously low price tag was insane luck. I have Kelly W to thank for this one, too, as she initially spotted him but then said I could have him. His show name is Springfield, after the town where the antique mall is located.
The entire weekend, we couldn't stop thinking about a few things we'd regretted leaving behind, so we decided to stop at the antique mall again on the way back. I grabbed this Cantering Welsh Pony from the 1992 Sears special run set, #496092 Horses Great & Small. There were 2250 sets made. I quite like this little mold and I already had the Clydesdale Stallion from the same set, so for $16, she came home with me.
And here's that Clydesdale Stallion, who is the technically-not-a-liberation model but obviously belongs in the same post with his sister above, since he's the reason I went back for her. This guy has the honor of being the first Breyer I ever bought secondhand. On July 17, 1993, there was a model horse event of some kind in Greenville, PA. I don't remember what it was or how I heard about it - if anyone reading this knows, please share! - but it wasn't too far from home and my parents agreed to take me. There were a lot of fellow hobbyists there and some had whole tables of sales models. My parents told me I could pick out one model to buy. I circled the tables several times, and though I'm not typically a draft horse collector, his beautiful color and shading kept drawing me back to him, so he came home with me that day.
I'm actively on the hunt for the last remaining member from that Sears set, the palomino Merrylegs. And while Breyer old-school red roan isn't my favorite vintage color, I wouldn't be sad if a Congress Running Mare came to join her baby someday.
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