tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86167588858373263712024-02-02T16:25:16.286-08:00Muddy HoofprintsKristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-1134439380347975342017-04-08T14:59:00.003-07:002017-04-08T14:59:46.314-07:00The Cowboy Who Played in Clay: Confirmed<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the first article about a rare ceramic painting by Western artist John Wade Hampton, I carefully analyzed the item. After listing all of its artifacts, and comparing with his print ink work, I set forth my personal opinion about the identity of the subject.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This theory was in direct conflict with established Hampton contemporaries, who believed the plate to be Red Ryder:<br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Left: Hampton's self-portrait in red Ryder strip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had resigned myself to accept that no proof of identity, one way or the other, was likely to surface. After all, this is JWH's only known ceramic original art, and there is no way to ask him about it. Recently, friend Teresa Rogers sent me a scan of a 1957 Western Horseman magazine article. This was about the "11th Trek of the Desert Caballeros", a group of entertainers, artists, businessmen, and stock breeders who made an annual 150-mile trail ride through the Arizona desert, complete with campfires and musical accompaniment. On the first page of the article, there is this image (provided by Teresa as a scan):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's JWH, posing for the camera, astride a horse that looks very much like the one on my plate. The angle of neck, croup, dark color, and most of Johnny's gear even synced up with the plate.<br /><br />Note also how the plate has a ghost-line drawn for slack rein or lead, like those in the photograph, yet the rider is painted raising his arm in greeting, so the reins were strongly painted taught and raised. It may be a hint at the artist copying the photograph's rope cowboy halter and lead (white on the horse's head in photo). The spade bit bridle has no noseband, and yet, there is the "invisible" halter's noseband in the painting. I like that he even indicated the stripes on his saddlepad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hats off to you, Mr. Hampton!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This makes me wonder if Johnny had posed for more than one photo, and used a print of himself in the leaning back/greeting pose for this plate painting? Or, did he just take some artistic license with his pose in the <i>Western Horseman</i> image? Interestingly, the date of publication, 1957, puts the plate smack dab in the middle of my estimate of creation. My article said between 1947 and 1965, and that is 1956-7. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm touched to have played a part in discovering a long-lost JWH self-portrait, in his rarest of media, to share with the collecting world. I hope this inspires other collectors to take chances on the unusual, and chase the stories these artworks have to tell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you, Teresa Rogers, for providing the historic photo resource that confirms the plate is a self-portrait by John Wade Hampton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Author unidentified. "11th Trek of the Desert Caballeros." <i>Western Horseman </i>magazine. August 1957: pp. 10-11.<br /><br /><a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2017/01/when-cowboy-played-in-clay.html" target="_blank">Francis, Kristina Lucas. "When The Cowboy Played In Clay." January 2017. Muddy Hoofprints blog. Online.</a><br /><br /></span></div>
<br />Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-5018833163410451642017-01-05T14:02:00.000-08:002017-01-05T16:45:34.199-08:00When The Cowboy Played In Clay<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What happens when you find something wonderful... that should not exist?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a true story of a ceramic piece by a very famous Western artist, which, as far as I've uncovered, has never been seen nor recorded working in this medium, before. He is known for his etchings, watercolors, oils, pencils, inks, and bronzes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where had I seen this brushstroke, before? Turns out, I'd seen his art early on. My junior-high-through-college art days were heavily influenced by cowboy art and Maureen Love's works. Our junior high school library had an aged collection of (and current subscription to) <a href="http://www.westernhorseman.com/" target="_blank">Western Horseman Magazine</a>, which was our lunchtime go-to entertainment. Paintings (including this artist's) on the covers, great old-timey stock horses, and more ink art and cartooning, inside. Of course, when you see the ads for "The Executive" desktop pen caddy, you giggle so much, the librarian barks at you, or threatens to call your mom: this was the price to be paid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In college, my professor for Drawing and Watercolor classes was a <a href="http://www.powaybernardomortuary.net/memsol.cgi?user_id=1664953" target="_blank">legit cowboy artist and poet</a>. He was my biggest cheerleader for pursuing representational and cowboy art, in an art department that had a heavy lean towards everything else. I remember how tickled he was that I signed my art with a stylized cow skull, as my first initial. Symbols, added or dropped, are a recurring theme in cowboy artist signatures, to be discussed later. He introduced me to the art of Ed Borein, and a whole range of Western artists. At the same time, he was friends with leading illustrators, animators, etc. He passed away in 2015, and the West is poorer for it. This chance discovery of vintage, original cowboy art would have him hopping about with glee, telling all his students about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Cowboy Artists of America was started by four founding artist members. One of those founding members was an apple-cheeked, smiling-eyes gentleman by the name of John Wade Hampton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photo from Arizona Republic newspaper, September 5th, 1962.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like other artists who make a living with their art, Johnnie initially worked in commercial illustration. The earliest date I found for him doing pencil work (the basic drawings the inker then traces over, before printing) was 1947. You might recognize him, drawing himself as a guest star, in the old Red Ryder newspaper comics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before we go further, I want to point out that saying "Red Ryder" between 1938 and 1964 was like saying "Batman", today.* It was an immensely popular property, spanning newspapers, comic books, serials, feature films, novels, licensed merchandise, radio dramas, and more. The artists who worked on the original comic strip were pop culture legends, and then, they transitioned to fine art. Take a moment to digest that.<br /><br />This wasn't just a desk artist, working for a print comics giant. Johnnie walked the walk, too, and tried out his hand at being an actual cowboy. He was told he was good at both, better at art. The benefits of being an artist, and the reduced physical wear and tear, are fairly obvious. I can't blame him. He still kept the cowboy lifestyle, moved from NY to NM, and settled in AZ. He passed away in 1999.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fast forward to 2015, my random discovery of an online auction. Seller location: Casa Grande, AZ. That is less than a two-hour drive today, from the artist's last home. The auction only described it as a handmade plate, no artist named. Indeed, there were only initials for a signature. By checking the auction photos against online examples of the artist's signature and watercolor style, I identified it as a John Wade Hampton. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How did his art end up on a ceramic plate, of all things? Was it a decal? Probably, like equine artist Paul Brown's drawings were replicated on glassware.<br /><br />Not only was the description and title not very helpful, but the auction photos were out of focus. It was charming old pottery that I love, and a nice piece for the price. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <a href="http://ceramicdecals.org/Kinds_of_Decals.html" target="_blank">decal</a> in ceramic is just like in other media: pre-existing art, mass-replicated. The artwork is reproduced with pigments on waterslide decal paper. The art is limited by those pigments which are able to tolerate firing in a kiln (temperatures for fusing decals vary by material). The decal is laid on top of the glazed item, and during the heating process, bonds to the glaze. Like the overglaze gold luster around the edge of the plate, it is bonded on, but can be rubbed and worn through, with use. The decal on the backside of this plate indicates that it is for display, not food use. This could be due to lead content, or due to the fact that some pigment from the yellow of the decal actually came off, dusting with a damp towel!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the eBay plate arrived, I was stunned. The JWH plate has none of the markers of mass production, nor even those of hobbyist decals. Homemade pottery, hand-painted, yes, indeedy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that I could see, up close and in focus, that this plate was an original, my ceramic history curiosity was keeping me awake at night. I needed to know more. Was it a series, like a service set for his family? It had no stains in the crackle, so if it had ever been used, it was long before automatic dishwashers, and before age crackle set in. Maybe it was a rodeo award? Or a memento from a one-time visit to a neighbor's home pottery? Did he have his own pottery? Did any of his later bronze subjects get cast in earthenware, like the plate? Was it really a self-portrait, and if so, did he do many self-portraits, outside of the guest art for Red Ryder?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 17.94px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Kristina,</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 17.94px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 17.94px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm sorry to say we know nothing about John Hampton (d.) ceramics and also do not know where to send you for reference. We're only familiar with his oil paintings and bronzes.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 17.94px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 17.94px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wish you good luck in your search.</span></span></blockquote>
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I'm Megan from the Museum, Stephanie forwarded me your email to see if I could answer your question. I asked one of our staff members, Hans, about the piece since he knew John personally. He said that he does not recognize this plate, but does recall that at some point several of the CAs decided to do something on ceramic using their art. As far as John's ceramic practice goes, Hans could remember little beyond saying that it was not prolific. It sounds like several CAs decided to take on these experiments around the same time (like Gary Cooper doing tiles). Beyond the specific piece, is there other information you were looking for? Hans can answer some questions - and tell some good anecdotes - he's here at the Museum Tuesday thru Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, with a lunch running from noon to 1:30 usually. If you are looking to really dig deep, his widow's name is X (and she is still alive as far as we known, although Hans is not sure how much help she could be) the number we have on file for her is xxxxxx although I'm not sure if this is still current as we have not been in touch with her for some time. I would suggest you also reach out to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum - we were the home of the Cowboy Artist of America from 1983 until the early 2000s, and then they moved over to that museum - so maybe they can provide you some answers as well since they are the current CA affiliated museum. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hans Poppe, at the <a href="http://www.museumofwesternart.com/">Museum of Western Art</a> in Kerrville, TX, was very friendly, and most helpful on the phone. He informed me that several of John's contemporary Western artists had experimented with <i>licensing their paintings</i> for collector plates. It was not "ceramic experimentation" in the sense that we potters use: they were trying a new source of cash flow for existing art. Those mass-produced items would have all been decals on press-molded china. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, on this plate, the color is under the glaze, not a decal on top of it. So, maybe it is a in-glaze decal? Nope, no print dots. These brush strokes are <i>strokes</i>. An outline decal, hand-colored? Nope. Strokes, again. This was hand-painted with ceramics pigments, then glazed over. The glaze crackle goes over the pigments, not through them. Around the edge, two guidelines were lightly incised, then the rickrack pattern was hand-incised deeper into the ware, with a hint of the same blue pigment, tracing the cuts. Clearly not a mass-produced effect. You may have also noticed that the plate itself is not symmetrical! That is a handmade flaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The earliest I found online for his addition of the spur to the end of his signature was 1970. This 1958 signature shows the larger W and no spur, just like the plate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hans showed my plate photos to a couple other living contemporaries of Hampton. He reported that they believe the plate cowboy is supposed to be the Red Ryder character. He went on to say that the signature also indicates that this plate was painted during Hampton's assisting in drawing the strip and the comic books (1950's to 1960's). Another source cites <a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/112198/" target="_blank">1947 forward</a> as the time that Hampton was doing art (at first, ghosting) on the Red Ryder comics and comic books. Nothing wrong with that: I started out ghost-sculpting for another artist, too. It was a thing that was done in apprenticeships, since time immemorial.<br /><br />This plate was certainly painted sometime between 1947 and 1965, when he co-founded the Cowboy Artists of America, and the publication cease in 1964 ended his Red Ryder cartooning days. I found evidence that after 1969, he began to add the spur symbol, and sometimes "CA" (for his Cowboy Artist Association membership), to his signatures.<br /><br />If I could find evidence of the year that he began inking for Red Ryder, I could narrow this plate's origin even further. This plate painting is an excellent example of professional inking style.<br /><br />I personally think the plate cowboy looks like Hampton's own character that he drew of himself, in the strip shown at the beginning of this article. It would make sense that the hip brand is the same as his own first initial signature, if it is a self-portrait. Also, the hair and costume colors are wrong for it to be <i>the</i> Red Ryder. I leave it to the reader to decide which fellow they think is on the plate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is a very stylish, colorful background for the cowboy. Here are <a href="http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/john-w.-hampton-1918-2000-sonoita,-az-1009-c-5fa4816bc5" target="_blank">examples</a> of John using the background blue, on his later paintings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hampton's long-lost surviving artwork was a serendipitous discovery, a one-of-a-kind event, yet it feels like so many of my adventures with vintage pottery. My investigative techniques have brought me to this place, and I do feel a bit "trained" by all the people I've met, and by the roads travelled in this blog. Branching out to raise awareness of other long-lost ceramics is a good thing. It's giving me goosebumps to wonder what other ceramics he may have painted. If you know more about John Wade Hampton's pottery, or have insight about the identity of the cowboy in the painting (and his one-eyed horse), please comment below. I would love to know more.<br /><br />If a time-traveler had told seventh-grader-me that I would write about the lost ceramic venture of the painter on the covers of Western Horseman magazine, I would have laughed so loudly, the librarian would have shooed me out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* For nearly the entire run of Red Ryder's print life, he and Batman were competing in the same print field. Batman first appears in comic form in 1939, one year after Red Ryder's debut. They made character properties to last, back then!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gratitude to:</b> Hans Poppe, Megan Shepherd, Teresa Rogers, and my very understanding husband, who believed in my ID skills, from the beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <a href="https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?tid=192941&pgi=51" target="_blank">comic book seller</a> notes that the pencils for this issue were done by John Hampton. The issue was printed in March 1950.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shepherd, Megan. Pers. comm. 11/12/2016 and 1/4/2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A special "thank you" to Teresa Rogers for finding these images:</span><br />
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Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-4331921689883142112016-10-31T21:00:00.002-07:002016-11-10T07:39:52.025-08:00A Mystery Solved Backwards<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Known: the small male Quail, reissued under license by Share The Love in 2014, is a Maureen Love design. The mold was in her estate, and was collected by Dawn Sinkovich. We measured the interior mass, poured the rubber master into the mold, and preserved it, as her subcontractor. There is no doubt of its provenance. Then, Dawn personally cast and glazed the edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What we didn't know, with any certainty, was the purpose of the design. Was it for Maureen's own pottery, or for a big company? Were there just a few, or were they mass produced? Why did they bear such a striking design resemblance to the <a href="http://sharethemaureenlove.blogspot.com/2015/06/more-maureen-mysteries-come-to-light-in.html" target="_blank">Large Quail</a> that Maureen designed for DeForest of California?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was he meant to be a maquette, or finished at full size? Share The Love, as far as we knew, was the first to finish and release a never-made, waste-mold quail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These questions might have gone unanswered forever, if not for a chance find on eBay, one random night, when I had a bout of insomnia. Scrolling through esoteric search headings helps put me to sleep... that is, until I stumble upon a new-to-our-collecting-world Maureen Love sculpture on a cheap Buy It Now. Then, I twitch, toss, and turn until daylight. Tracking number, what's the tracking number?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The BIN listing dimensions had me already formulating this blog post. She was exactly the right size. Her very existence solved a mystery. She was unmarked, so how could I identify her factory? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her very existence indicates that the STL small male quail was originally issued by DeForest, too. Even the carved bases match. Figurine pairs and families were typical in California potteries. It encouraged more sales, and the marketing strategy continues to this day.</span></div>
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Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-20514509965624770612016-05-16T08:50:00.001-07:002016-05-16T09:16:01.741-07:00Curios-er and Curio-served<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Cabinet space has become a bit of an issue for me, lately. My collection grew in a very short time span, and I have not been able to acquire the fixtures to keep up. Not for lack of trying, but most of the time, it's logistics of cabinet weight and size. I am also changing the way I display, which is moving away from the "library stacks" style, and towards a more artistic, museum-display style. That style requires more real estate, but the enjoyment of the artworks is maximized. I also can consider more fanciful, less practical cabinet designs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a forsaken corner of my studio that has needed a makeover, for years. It had a cheap bookcase, and a open-edged, dust-magnet, tiny cabinet. These became catch-alls for all manner of studio debris. The cabinet is a bad match for a dusty pottery room, and needs to be moved to the clean office. I needed something that kept dust out, and also lit up the corner.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently completed a collecting goal of one of each of the HR DW foal molds. To me, foals are the true gauge of an equine artist, because they should not look like miniature adults. Although I love them as reference, they were jammed to the back of my large curio, a foot away from the viewer, and shadowed by larger sculptures. They needed to be in a cabinet that they wouldn't get lost in.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">My mother-in-law and I love to do the occasional "junking", hunting at flea markets and thrift stores. I have found great monsters and tiki at these low-end resalers, but never anything for my own collection. In a single day this month, I scored not one, but TWO small curios to ease the clinky congestion. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">In the last booth, in the last indoor flea market, I spied a tall corner cabinet. It was very reasonably priced, even with delivery. The seller assured me that the third glass shelf was included, she just was displaying a tall figurine in the bottom. The bottom section of the curio was a solid cabinet, for stashing books and the like. It looked mint, in the dim corner, and the booth was so crowded with junk that I took her word that the light fixture worked. It looked ideal for my studio corner, and I felt like a Responsible Collector, getting a proper, safe place for my foals.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The cabinet was delivered the next morning. This seemingly innocuous event was but the beginning of a three-hour physical workout and brain tease. The gentlemen who worked for the flea owner carried it in, brought the glass shelves, and stood it in the corner. Well, more like, leaned it out of the corner, looming towards the room. We checked that the light worked, even with a plug unlike any I had seen before, and off they traipsed. It had been cleaned before delivery, which was about the only relief to what followed.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">With the curio at six feet tall, a bottom quarter being the solid section, and only three shelves, there was no question of DW headroom inside. Still, I needed to inspect the shelf holders and the shelf height options. Imagine my surprise that there were none! Yes, it was mighty dark in that booth, especially with the cabinet light off. Only enough holes for the existing three shelves, forever stuck at those heights?! <i>Who built this crap? This must be made in China.</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Then, I got a good look at the shelf holders. Clear plastic. One had shorn off inside its hole, rendering the entire shelf useless. The bottom shelf. You know, the one that had been removed to "display that tall figurine"? Uh huh. <i>Who used cheap plastic to hold up heavy glass shelves? This must be made in China.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Now, the geometry of a corner cabinet, being an Isosceles triangle, means that the acute angles where the shelf holders are inside their holes are such that the rear ones cannot be pulled. That's right, the shelf holders were installed before the mirror and backing were mounted to the entire curio. Forget drilling new holes when they shear off and ruin those existing spots, because you will never fit a drill up against that mirror, anyways. <i>Who assembles a single-use curio with no shelf height options? Who seals in those pegs with a mirror and staples? This must be made in China.</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">It had become abundantly clear to me, at this point, that I had a fixer-upper on my hands. I can't abandon it. It has to be dealt with. There are no other options: I must remove the entire back wall to reach the mirror, then access the pegs jammed in that acute angle. After that, I can measure and drill new holes, and set in steel shelf holders. You know, like a reasonable furniture manufacturer would have done, in the first place. <i>Who made this disaster? This must be made in China.</i></span><i><br style="background-color: white;" /></i><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Yes, this curio was delivered by two men. So what? I understand leverage and I am nimble. I doubled a quilt (because all the furniture moving blankets I keep buying have disappeared) over my utility sink and floor, walked the cabinet over to it, and leaned it there for surgery. The paperboard backing wasn't even the strong Masonite you see as backing on cheap furniture. Nope, this was like barely-pressed-together sawdust, the worst grade of paper fiberboard. It turned to dust when I tried to remove the staples. I then made the backing's weakness work for me, and ripped it... Let this sink in... I ripped the entire backside off a curio, like it was upholstery fabric. <i>Who uses sawdust paper as furniture? IKEA would reject this. This must be made in China.</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I carefully examined how the mirror was secured before attempting removal. What luck! It wasn't secured, at all. It was held in place by gravity against a tiny lip of oak at the top of the "solid" segment of the cabinet. <i>Who sells and ships glass mirrors, just bobbing loose in paper backing? This must be made in China.</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">... But, how did it survive overseas shipping?</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The staples, meanwhile, were dug in like ticks, bonded to the narrow frame. They made clinging Job One- being just about the only thing in the whole curio, besides the light, that had a work ethic. I had to pry each staple out of the entire six feet twice, and the top and bottom, for it covered the entire back surface. The staples could not be left in place, or else the backing would not go back on flat. The bottom stability segment was not "solid" oak, at all. It was half paper! <i>Staples, paper, plastic. Is this a TPS report on my desk? No, it's a curio cabinet, made fast and cheap in China, I guess!</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">My husband checked in, saw the insanity, heard me huffing and hauling on staples, clattering nails, and was like, "What piece of junk did you get?!" <i>Something made in China .</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I didn't bother doing my workout that day, because it was Arm Day on the curio machine, apparently. I carefully measured for new holes, from the curio's own landmarks. I got the correct diameter drill bit, placed the holes horizontally slightly off-center of each back wall frame, so the steel holders would not occlude and crack the mirror backing. There was no centimeter spared in this construction, not even when common sense said "You will break." <i>This must be made in China.</i></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I set the steel shelf holders in place, laid the mirror back on its rest, and put what was left of the paperboard back in place. I hammered steel finishing nails in, sometimes using an old staple hole for the hardest parts of the wood. Then, I had the bright idea to sweep out any spiderwebs that may be left in the base underside, while the cabinet was at a 45-angle. When am I going to have access to the bottom again, really? I bent down, reached under with my hand-broom... And heard the bristles strike something that wasn't oak. It was paper. A paper label, this will confirm my worst fears.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">It was made in my state, one hour's drive away, 36 years <i>and 1 day</i> from the date it was delivered here. If that datestamp doesn't give you the shivers, it should.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Commence the TNsplaining. Begin with the there-theres. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Thoroughly geography-shamed, culture-shamed, industry-shamed, I now began to baby the curio. "I can't believe you survived 36 years in the state of your birth without being broken! I know residents who can't claim that." I stood it back up, dusted it off, positioned it in the corner. It still lurched forward, posture not really being a thing in TN. I grabbed the heaviest objects I had handy- my own plaster molds- and loaded the cabinet bottom compartment until it stood solid, pressure fit to the corner. Please no jokes about Tennesseans having to be loaded to look normal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can look at FB and MH$P to see the first effect: cascading. In the face of the sudden availability of so many great HRs, collectors are prioritizing their own collections, and culling items that do not fit their current focus. This results in lots of makes and models hitting the market at the same time. Just because HRs are the most plentiful right now doesn't mean that other makes are immune. The need to raise money to buy their wish-list HRs cascades down through other makes, including bone china studio ware, Beswicks, and Made-In-Japans, causing a flood. It's a cascading effect of all types of collectibles, surpassing demand and thus lowering asking prices. If an item is to move with any speed, the prices must be made attractive, or even below market value, to entice buyers. If time is not a factor, and the seller can afford to sit on inventory (like a lot of us non-shop-owners, with zero overhead), their prices don't change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if there are stubborn sellers, who refuse to lower their prices, or sell for less than they paid? Is it fair to make comments berating them for their refusal to make a discount deal with you or your friends? No, it isn't. The private seller of second-hand collectibles is not obligated to stick to values in books (which are outdated and give built-in lowballing) nor to a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. It's their own vintage or secondary market item, and they can price it as they see fit. I would argue that you should be <i>thanking</i> those sellers for their steadfast dedication to values. They are the thin line defending and insisting on values, so that our entire hobby market doesn't crash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband has taught me a useful, but cheeky, shut-down phrase to use when I am asked to ridiculously reduce prices on my original art or collectibles: "If you don't like my price, buy it at Kmart." Of course, the chain store name is interchangeable, but the gist is, if you don't like my price, try and find this unique or hard to find item for sale at discount just anywhere. You aren't going to find it at the corner store, and certainly not priced by the pound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone who has written me for advice this week has received this: Few things are going to hold universal value when the market floods. It's not an If, it's a When. Say your heart is set on a piece that you know was produced for more than a year, well, chances are, another will be available in the next few months. Don't despair that this one sold; you'll have another chance. This item was made in quantity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What if I just want just an example of the mold, not a competition/show horse?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I advise checking the years made, and reading up on which variant is the oldest and made the shortest time. Try to buy mint items. Older mint condition items survived to the present day, through collector care, and there's a lot to be said for that. In HRs, the oldest horses had character eyes and lined nostrils and mouths, which hold them back in breed/realism judging. They are golden for collectibility. If you decide to collect for history, not showing, don't reject the non-realistic finishes; select for age and condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I am ready to spend, and I am excited about all the stuff available. I have been waiting for a dispersal like this." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is no upper budget, consider that the test, one-off goof, and employee customs are unique (or close to it). There won't be another just like it coming up for sale, ever. if anything, that exact piece might come up for sale sometime in the future, but <i>only that one</i>. Thus, demand for the most attractive tests is never met. Also, tests in particular tend to hold their value every time the market dives. This is not so much true of the value of batched Samples, which are sometimes called tests, even though they are seldom unique trials on damaged ware. Examples of tests' values persisting include documented Breyer tests despite the plastic market ups and downs, and vintage HR tests (less so for batches of Samples) holding their collector values throughout the market flooding of eBay, and so on. When buying from collectors, expect to pay collector prices for these investment pieces. Sometimes, one gets lucky on eBay finding a bargain test for sale from a non-collector (steel/ash gray Roan Lady!), but don't expect those who educate themselves in the fancy to ask anything less than full value. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am loathe to guess what broken/glued or restored items will bring compared to their mint counterparts. As shown in examples in John's estate dispersal, the same item damaged can bring just as much as a mint one, <i>or one leg break can reduce it by half.</i> My speculation, without accounting for world situation and larger problems like war or food shortages: The first wave buying tests and uniques will see their values held, perhaps even see those grow as investments. There will be a big ocean of regular run, long-produced pieces swirling about, unsold, for a while. Before it's all over, we'll see collectors exchanging things like HR DW Swaps for $30 (my personal yardstick for HR secondary market low, yours may vary). All the while that the big estates are settling, experienced collectors continue to disperse pieces and retire from the hobby. After even the BHR sale, there will be more collections up for sale, due to unforeseen circumstances. If you miss out on a mass-produced grail from any of the dispersals, know that there will always be another. And another. Do not despair. Also, think back to before you learned that X piece was even attainable, before it was offered at auction/for sale. You still enjoyed your collecting hobby then, without X, so do not let a one-time loss tinge it now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you do not want to wait another decade for your grail, I'd say, find funds outside the already-squeezed horse hobby, and buy it now. Clear out the garage, have a yard sale, make crafts, cook at home more often: all the things we used to do to support our hobby spending when the HR market was ferocious, in the pre-eBay 1990's. Now there are even more opportunities to raise money in one's spare time, without going back to school. Try driving for Uber, or walk dogs, raise your own produce, etc. My point is, it's folly to expect all your grail funding to be generated from sales to the very same market that is already flooded.<br /><br />In closing, the best advice I received in collecting, I share again with you: a grail will find its way, however implausibly and circuitously, to the person(s) it was meant to find. We are all temporary curators. It may be heart-wrenching to see your long-loved favorites exchange hands beyond your grasp or even imaginable price range. Remember that is just a little delay. Maybe you worry that you didn't know the right people, you're too new, or feel outside a clique? We all start as outsiders, and we all did our tours as newbs. Keep your reputation clean, keep on with collecting in your favorite way, and eventually, your diligence will pay off. I would not pass along this as a fairy tale, I have experienced it and it is fact. Impossible, unfathomed things found me, and I know they can find you, too. I hear from collectors every year about crazy chains of events that led to their amazing $5 Finds, or gifts from friends, PIFs, all manner of unexpected avenues. Aim high with your patience. Shed no tears if you missed recent opportunities; smile and save up for the opportunity winging its way to you, on the gusts of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why do we insist on bringing up this wish, this fantasy that seems so unattainable, as we sit in our cars, on the drive to model horse shows? This soft, gray-edged possibility, as we nurse our cuppa tea or coffee, before the day's work snaps back reality?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the art we love is fragile, yet it will outlive us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because some collectors have no heirs, or if we have them, they have no interest in learning how to properly handle and/or disperse our collections. Perhaps geographical distance or lack of resources makes a careful dispersal implausible. Relatives may have, in all seriousness, mentioned boxes to the dump, or a Craigslist blow-out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because what we collect is not quite acknowledged as Fine Art, and not quite Folk Art. In many cases, the vintage ceramic animals are products of industry, not private art studios.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because toy museums are not appropriate settings for these delicate beasts. They have different display and restoration needs, not just a different audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I live near a major tourism center, and I see private museums open up to the public, flourish, then fade and close, with regularity. Some are free, but attached to businesses; others charge parking <i>and</i> amusement-park-priced admission. Some evolved from being an "industry secret" by-invitation-only, to full-fledged tourist destinations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's easy to confuse the terms "public" and "private". Someone may say, "Of course my museum will be open to the public!" That is not what public means. Public means, put very simply, that a true public institution with a board of directors control and enhance the museum. Essentially, it c</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an't be run by one person. Imagine if the world's institutions were run by one person each, what an opportunity for corruption and "missing" treasures! A Board must handle all decisions for the public museum. Curation lists can be assembled by the curator(s), and brought before the board, but a curator can't just thin the herd without the Board's approval.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A public museum is subject to certain federal laws, since it ultimately gets at least partial public funding. Beyond this, regional and worldwide museum organizations set requirements and inspections to verify it is worthy of membership, affiliation, or accreditation. On top of that sundae of bureaucracy, there are loans of items for temporary exhibits, regional laws about loaned works, and all the hoops to jump through with their agents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Private means, owned by someone, an individual or corporation, in the private sector. The decisions regarding operating hours, whether or not it is ever open to the actual public, and how it displays (and restores, disperses) its collection is within their own purview. The exceptions to this may be the private museum's compliance with federal and state laws regarding endangered species, live animal welfare, weapons, and even hazardous artifacts (can't let the visitors be exposed to radioactive stuff!). I'm sure there are more exceptions, but the laws are applicable to all citizens permitted to possess such items. If you don't have a permit for it, your private museum doesn't, either. Just putting the word "museum" on something doesn't give one carte blanche.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How hard can it be, if essentially uneducated entrepreneurs can do this? It's not like any of these are attached to institutions!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turns out, it's both simple and difficult to bop out with a new, privately-owned museum. There needs to be a perfect blend of resources: time, climate-controlled space, traffic to support it, parking, storage, people who will work, showmanship, curation, carpentry, maintenance, paperwork, promotion, and security. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The simplicity emerges as one key factor: not being a public institution. Standards and federal regulations for a public museum are very stringent, and from what I have read, are not viable for operating a model horse museum. The number one reason being that the foundation of model horse collecting is based on mass-production, and that means OF duplicates will need to be curated with an eye to preserve storage space for future items. Generally speaking, museums receive bequests of selections or entire collections. If three bequests/donations have 200 duplicate OFs between them, a curator must analyze which are the best examples to keep in the museum's collection, even if they are not on display rotation. The extra pieces must then be dispersed. Dispersal stays in the control of the private museum, not normally true of the public institution. There are exceptions, where living donors offer their items with the caveat that the museum cannot disperse any part or whole, in perpetuity. Because of the limits of space, this is a very unattractive deal to museums.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the most part, serious museums do not consider collectible ceramic-production animals to be even "folk art". They are not considered institution material, unless a singular mass-produced item has a connection to a person or event of broad historical interest (ie, this item was flown on a space mission, or owned by a President). Even so, famous historical figures owned a lot of stuff. They have to draw the line, somewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, at one time, the International Museum of the Horse, on the Kentucky Horse Park grounds, had an impressive display of Kinstler wood carvings (wooden model horses). Now a handful are scattered over a few exhibits. The decisions made by equine specialist museums do not necessarily reflect what model horse collectors might consider important. If this is how historic, valuable Kinstlers (arguably, worthy folk art) are managed <i>at a horse museum</i>, imagine how far out of a "normal" museum's storage we'd see any donated custom, or mass-produced plastic or china? Ironically, if they were carousel horses, they'd have a better shot at eventual display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple collectors have mentioned donating to The Smithsonian, partly because they have broad "Americana" collections. Arguably, California Pottery examples should be considered worthy of the term. The trouble is, our field of interest is not considered academically important enough- not now, nor to an imagined future generation- and museums are already chock-a-block with items that do not have museum quality or academic merit:</span><br />
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assumption appears to have been that governments and philanthropy would always
provide the necessary resources, and that collections could be culled later.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Smith document cites a survey responder who said that instead of accepting 10% of offered donations, the new number is about 1%. If a donor specifies that the "unsuitable" parts of the donation cannot be disposed of by the institution, the institution refuses the entire donation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These days, an institution needs to cherry-pick the most important (what is historic to us and to the future- if the curator ascribes to gambling on what future generations will find interesting) from the ocean of donations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not that anyone wants to hear this part, but private museums have the same need to edit. They, unlike public institutions, typically reserve the right to edit or dispose of materials that do not enhance the collection, unless some stronger document is drawn up between individuals. Quantity suffocates many a public museum's storage. If even the public institutions are running out of room, imagine what the pressures are for private, with considerably fewer storage resources? Furthermore, there are no tax write-offs for donating to a private museum. Donations to a public museum gain the donor a tax credit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Private usually gets no public (government) funding, so a broad fundraising plan is necessary. This may includes dinners, events, and the "disposal" (selling) of unsuitable or duplicate donated items. I say "usually" because there is a trend of late, where private collectors have utilized <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/business/art-collectors-gain-tax-benefits-from-private-museums.html?_r=1" target="_blank">tax benefits</a>. Private can purposefully locate "fixer-upper" collections, refurbish or restore them in-house, and then break up and sell at a profit. It can be for personal profit, or the owner might roll it back in, to keep the museum going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Private museums have less government and interior oversight. This doesn't mean they are immune to the whims of individual curators, who can influence whole Boards to their tastes. It does mean that the government standards for institutions' climate control, storage, restoration methods, and loan procedures are entirely optional to the private museum.<br /><br />The flip side of that coin is, the private museum must educate itself in lighting, display, conservation, and media weaknesses. For instance, changes in humidity can affect earthenware ceramics. Climate control keeps the levels of humidity stable, delaying the onset or degree of glaze crackle and averting bisque degeneration. Therefore, a private museum must train itself, and staff, in the display needs of its media. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will the oils or acids in the display unit literally eat up the models in them? Will models adhere to their packing, to each other, to the display itself, and suffer damage as a result? Can intrinsic materials decay be halted? Have the correct conservator-quality gloves, tools, storage media been sourced, budgeted, and kept pristine? Have the owner/staff been trained in how to use these tools? All but the most elite private museums will not have access to the same staff documents and training resources that the public museums have, and continue to build upon. I get a spontaneous full-body cringe when I see documentaries or television shows where artifacts are kept in beautiful conservation folders and boxes, and then the staff touch these with bare hands. Acid and oils, they spread. It's what they do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The private museum must come up with funding for its own insurance and overhead. If the private museum allows the public to come view it on-site, liability insurance can be a million-dollar minimum for a modest, one-story building. That's just guest injury liability- then add fire insurance, flood insurance, and on and on! Maintaining a large building at ideal climate controls, year round, is more costly than you'd guess! Add to that, correct exhibition-grade lighting, bulbs, and electricity to power those lights and climate control... and the maintenance, parking, outdoor landscaping if the museum has gardens...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, there is the delicate dance with items on loan for temporary exhibits. Some private museums entirely forego loans and temporary exhibits. These are usually the ones that do not generate income by charging admission, so there is no incentive for them to have a fresh "draw" every couple months. Those that do accept loans of items for display must familiarize themselves with the legal <i>and insurance requirements</i>. Yes. More, separate insurance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Youth programming, including class trips, requires careful thought. A private art or collectibles museum would be wise to screen for groups that would have respect and interest in their exhibits, such as school art clubs, or art magnet schools. A private museum will have to increase its staff for days when class trips are scheduled. Public institutions are generally staffed to handle groups, or at least have seasonal hires to suit increased traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does our collecting hobby have going for it? Lots of things.<br /><br />We have the benefit of experience. Model horse collectors have made strides, they have learned from errors, and they have led by example. There have been attempts to partner with existing institutions, and other private museum facilities; there have been purpose-built buildings that were true private museums. Each approached the problem with their own insight, their own resources, their own strength and ambition. As long as no central, universal model horse museum exists, there will always be individual collectors starting up their own museum efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A handful of model horse collectors do not allow "the public" (meaning strangers) on-site, but instead maintain an online museum through their photographic web sites. The advantages of the web site as a public, free museum are low-cost, fairly low-risk (provided addresses are shielded and secure), and a curious draw for new and experienced collectors. The internet is open 24/7, unlike most museums. There will always be an interest in the web site as a public display of collections, as long as there is an internet. Even public institutions have seen the benefit of this alternative. I have assembled a small list of online model horse museums, see References, below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't help but realize that the very building I own and work in would make an excellent private model horse museum. It is already a closed-to-the-public, invitation-only museum for my husband's and my collections. There are already dedicated offices, a showroom, clean room, main gallery, and handicap-accessible bathroom, in addition to other purpose-built rooms with industrial-grade utilities. Knowing myself, and how I prefer to spend my energy on ceramics, I would have a heavy lean to showcase ceramic model horses. Such a specialization lends itself to related ceramics workshops, education, and the power of hands-on learning. That also rules out the enormous storage and cabinets needed to have a huge representation of plastics and other model media. If one considers the longevity of ceramics over human history, it makes sense, to me, to specialize.<br /><br />The carpentry, displays, organization, and restoration are things I am fine with. Finding people to intern, slog through boxes, wouldn't be impossible. Certainly, it is far more appealing to try than to sit idle, and watch the history be lost around us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Black Horse Ranch Museum Tour. I visited the museum's physical site when it was located in California. The collection is now in dispersal, but this excellent online museum resource is still available.<br />http://www.bhranch.com/model/tour/tour2006.htm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hagen-Renaker On-Line Museum, curated by Ed and Sheri Alcorn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Model Horse Gallery, curated by Gail Berg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-89917666426636735012015-06-15T14:26:00.000-07:002015-06-15T18:27:07.272-07:00Mystery Molds Mega News<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm excited. Are you? Five years of research and active hunting on my part, even longer for other dedicated collectors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2010, I began publishing all the information I could glean about the Mystery models by Maureen Love. Not produced by Hagen-Renaker nor her own studio pottery, they were clearly mass-produced by an unknown source. The pursuit mattered because so many of us admire her works, and it seemed such a shame that some of her largest sculptures should be forever lost to obscurity. This blog hosted wistful, bright-eyed musings on the eventual discovery of identifiable mold markings or stickers, the only ways to completely identify a factory name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the past couple years, it has become apparent that her unidentified works, including those in their first versions- closest to her hand- were produced by more than one California pottery. My primary focus was the Mystery Horse saga, which turned out to have connections to Lane Ceramics and Marcia of California. Suddenly, other animals glazed by Maureen (dispersed via her estate) began to take on new significance as Mystery molds, as their mass-produced contemporaries appeared in auctions and antique shops. The best I could assume was that both/either pottery producing her horses also made these animals. They were clearly made in the same California pottery tradition, at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, Dawn Sinkovich and I have made some exciting new discoveries. Dawn's own words of how she found a new pottery identity <i>andnew Love molds </i><a href="http://sharethemaureenlove.blogspot.com/2015/06/more-maureen-mysteries-come-to-light-in.html" target="_blank">can be read here</a>. Thanks to Dawn's pottery name discovery, I was able to identify a previously unknown Love mold, as well. That story is a little further on, in this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, so the back-patting continues, bear with me. You all know I have terrible luck finding anything "in the wild", so it is no exaggeration to say that the factory-finish Love rooster on eggplate was my greatest Find. I still get goosebumps realizing it was there, at eye-level, in my town, waiting to be seen by the one person curating its only known example. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That discovery led to an exciting year of searching for more online, and sharing those rooster purchase links with the Muddy Hoofprints audience, as I found them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still hunt for them, and this month, it paid off in an exciting new way: I located one for sale, with its original factory sticker. Not only that, but it was slipstuck (assembled) with a plate I had not seen before. This time, the rooster was on a leaf ashtray. I knew immediately that this was the one for Dawn, as she has been searching for a Love rooster factory item since its discovery. She'd always been 5 minutes too late, every time I linked one. I sent her the link to this stickered example, and the rest is history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ashtray rooster is definitely the same manufacturer. The character and idiosyncrasies of the production is the same as on my eggplates. During the glost firing, the white glaze of the rooster follows gravity, and oozes into the color glaze of the ware beneath it. The speckles in the white glaze are new to me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rooster is not glued on, he's slipstuck and glazed on, which makes the glaze run possible. This is why I am confident in identifying the Maureen Love crowing Rooster (with whatever functional ware he is paired) as produced by Belmar of California. Yes, the plate molds are sometimes found with other molded figures in a variety of finishes by at least two other potteries. However, since this white, featureless rooster repeats, and the fact that Belmar did a lot of leaf-themed ware... those points seal the deal for me. Maureen's rooster never shows up with those other potteries' stickers (or has not, yet).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short-lived California pottery, Belmar was located in Los Angeles. The years 1965-1967 are given as its operation lifespan. However, I have no information on whether they sold their molds to other potteries upon their closing, or how much ware went to distributors at the time of factory closure.<br /><br />This is not to be confused with any of the Ohio potteries: Bel-Mar (1950); BelMar China Co. (1912); nor Bel-Mar pottery Co. (1932-1935). Being in Ohio, and in those years, none of those fit for Maureen. We are talking <i>California</i> pottery, Belmar of Los Angeles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Chinese or Golden Pheasant was a popular exotic bird in decoration motifs of the Mid Century. Some might mistake such figures for a weird art stylization of a regular pheasant, but it is its own species. Here are some of Maureen's sketches of the bird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is Maureen's heretofore unknown, giant sculpture of the bird. When I say, "giant", I mean, it is dwarfed only by certain herons in the Maureen Love Originals pottery line. This Golden Pheasant is 11" tall by 18" long, and if straightened out, the tail would bring it to 25" long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maureen's shorthand for feathers, using cuts or scoops in the surface of the model, is evident in this design, as well as her other identified birds for the same company, and in her own studio pottery! This style sets her birds apart from other designs in the same company's product line (the peacock is <b>not</b> Maureen's). She also did an interesting eye disc technique, to suggest the pale iris and dark pupil of a bird. It almost looks like a metal washer, floating on the surface. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a wave-like ridge on both sides of the breast and wings, present on other birds she designed for this company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even the base design fits with the other free-lance models she did at the time, for other companies. For more about this newly discovered pottery brand, <a href="http://sharethemaureenlove.blogspot.com/2015/06/more-maureen-mysteries-come-to-light-in.html" target="_blank">read this post at Share The Love.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realize that in sharing our discoveries with the wider collecting world, Dawn & I have just made collecting these that much harder on ourselves. Directly, prices will climb and these Love auctions will now be on everyone's radar. At the same time, neither of us can bear the idea of so much of her work- and really interesting, large-scale pieces, at that- going to the dump or being passed over for lack of information. If you use the data for your own searches and successes, please pay it forward, and educate others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-89671033057783342142015-05-25T06:36:00.003-07:002015-05-25T06:38:18.747-07:00Muddy Monday: Black Lights Are Worthless<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had once looked forward to using black lights at my own ceramics show, to identify artificially enhanced entries. Restorations, while they could theoretically be identified, would not be disqualified. There are quite a few examples of models that would never be seen, if they had not been repaired. The target of the search was only the ever-growing problem of cosmetically enhanced ceramic models. Whenever a judge suspected enhancement, they were free to grab a black light from the set of judges' tools. We tried out my black lights, both in and outside the ring, at the show. Three problems made themselves known:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. It only fluoresces on certain materials, but not the ones most commonly on the surface. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had purchased actual black light flashlights (UV BLB) for my judges to use at Clinky Classic 5. These were not cheap fakes. I even tested them in non-ceramics applications and found them to work perfectly, prior to the show. However, on restored ceramics, I (and several witnesses) saw that the restored models did not fluoresce. Only models in the midst of restoration, with unpainted epoxy patches or other exposed adhesives, showed any fluorescence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Items that are painted with oils can show up under UV black light. However, this is less common than using acrylics, and thus the black light is not a practical tool in finding repairs or cosmetic enhancements on ceramic models. It's pretty darn useless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under UV BLB, it looks no different than the original ceramic ear. The acrylic paint has masked the repair; it is not a fluorescing material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A former gnarly break, restored, and invisible both to the naked eye under normal spectrum, and invisible under black light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Two Bits' ear and part of his cranium had been broken off and glued back on, at one time. It is now an invisible repair. Under UV BLB, even from two different angles of black light beam, it remains invisible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are just a handful of examples showing how such major changes can be imperceptible by black light method. It follows that any cosmetic enhancement would be hidden, as well. Thus, as sellers and buyers, we must use our eyes and records to avoid pitfalls. Reliance on the black light could lead to misrepresentation of sales items and show horses, and then some angry chargebacks or negative feedback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I later found this <a href="http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/01-10.pdf" target="_blank">government document</a> which expands on the invisible-to-UV black light repair situation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As much as black lights have been touted as the last word in identifying fakes, restorations, and cosmetic enhancements to artifacts, it is time to drop any remaining reliance on them as an evaluation tool. Although there is no magic tool, the normal lighted magnifiers are helpful in finding restoration brushstrokes or different airbrush spray. Now, if a seller says they used a black light to verify condition, I become wary and inclined to turn away. If collectors continue to rely on the black light for identifying restorations, they will be left in the dark.</span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-7249702135341136872015-04-13T18:27:00.005-07:002015-04-13T18:37:56.742-07:00Benefits of Collector Teamwork, Part Two<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When one has been collecting on one's own, all other collector input absent, one can fall into a mindset that is less than ideal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It worked once, so apply it to all future situations", says the brain to itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can include a set of personal rules- what you won't buy, ever- or even operating superstitions. Some of these personal guidelines are quite reasonable, taken out of context, but others are completely arbitrary or odd, unless a backstory is provided. There may be evidence, such as an entire subset of your collection, that a viewer off-the-street would say doesn't "fit" with the rest of the collection. Maybe the quirks are wisdom, hard-won, but if it hampers your full enjoyment of the collecting world, it is a rut. It is important to know yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe you know someone with a reputation as a horse collector only, yet, there's a curated group of [fill in the species] displayed with pride, in the midst of the horses. Not a one-off, not a singular mascot, but a carefully selected Group of Not Horses. Significance?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Backstory is vital to understanding this scenario. Asking why someone has this sort of incongruous grouping on center stage, as it were, leads to hidden threads and histories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Example: I am known for the clinky horse analysis, but I collect all of Maureen Love's animals and the different ceramics manufacturers for them. Amidst horse-shaped congas, there are cattle congas. I mean, right there, place of pride, look-at-me. I get, "What's with the cows?", a lot.<br /><br />This stems back to when I was a kid, and <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2011/10/bulls-in-china-shop.html" target="_blank">I was sculpting the first calf for Pour Horse</a> (back when it was all resin production). I studied Western Art masters' books and images, only to realize that Maureen's cattle were even better than theirs, in modelling. I dreamed, <i>wished</i> to be able to draw and sculpt cattle as well as she did. I adore her cattle, and her cattle molds has become one of my rules.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If you didn't know that, looking in my cabinet, you'd wonder why a herd of cows are given display honor with the horses. Most visitors glance right over them, and move on to the next horse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what are other examples of personal collecting rules?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've heard other collectors say:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has to speak to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to find it in the wild.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No claim of "LSQ" because that's dated and suspicious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No housewares or functional ware.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No people (riders).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only [insert ceramic medium] ware.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No long-ears.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing that costs more than $__.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only equines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only Miniatures (no Designer's Workshop), or vice-versa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only certain colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a bunch more rules. These keep me focused when I am offered things, especially groups of things all at once. These rules promote happiness and satisfaction with what I already own, so I stick to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stick to the established congas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only way to establish a conga is with a weird example that is 1. unique or 2. outstanding detail rarely seen on that mold, or both. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If it doesn't fit the collection, don't keep it, find its ideal owner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Build on, never split, Margo's Collection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not officially in the collection until I record it in the binder and put the ID sticker on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Superstitions can be far more specific and quirky. These are not imposed by rational thinking, but by memories of what went wrong, and any common threads therein.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A horse from a soured transaction must be dispersed immediately, or it will bring bad luck.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't go antiquing without my good luck charm.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to eat a certain very-hard-to-find candy while bidding on any auction, or I will lose.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I tell anyone what I'm seeking, I will never get it.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That last one is a classic superstition, especially considering how often in real life people acquire items through their friends, who know their aspirations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That leads me to the discussion of Solo versus Team collecting strategy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above all are products of a collector's mindset. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is applicable to all the types of collectors; those that do have a focus, or those chasing a specific backstamp or pedigree, both the scattershot and the Completist. It can feel like everyone in the whole world is their competition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the objectivity of years gone by, one might wonder, "Does this mindset really benefit me? Am I in a rut? If I find this is not ideal, can I change my rock-solid collecting habits?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the advent of the internet, at some point, the lone collector is going to meet others. The mindset of each collector, in a hypothetical meeting, has a lot to do with how nicely things will proceed. If I believe that every other collector is my competition, I am already entering the conversation with a disadvantage (or what I perceive to be one, where none may actually exist).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried to think of some. I have to admit, I came up short. It's not that they don't exist, it's just that I don't know them. Honestly, the one I could think of, a feeling of accomplishment that you did it all by yourself, is in reality just your perception. A number of circumstances and unseen individuals leads to each fortuitous circumstance. And, to me, if I go it alone with the intent to "beat" others at the "game", it's a hollow victory as I toast myself, alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The solo collector has no idea how many opportunities and friends they have missed. Maybe it is not a tangible drawback, if one's default is to ignore this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a competitive Solo mindset, one is keenly, painfully aware each time someone else wins a desired item, or makes a fabulous find right in one's backyard. Each loss is a glaring point on the ol' scoreboard. These are carried around and hang on a person.<br /><br />Another thing I have noticed, when dealing in transactions with Solo collectors, that there is an automatic accusatory air, whether buying or selling. The appropriate reaction to a timely and exact transaction is to respond in kind, not to immediately assume the worst. "This item/payment got here too fast!" is an odd complaint, for which there are no words in reply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike a Solo mindset, when you are a Team collector, seeing the latest posts of finds, bargains, and eBay wins energizes you. The enthusiastic reactions of folks on the <a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/breakables/info" target="_blank">breakables yahoogroup</a> and FB's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/110093855819907/" target="_blank">Clinky Connection</a> are excellent examples of this. If that other collector is part of your network, you may catch yourself cheering out loud, as you read their news. Generally speaking, other collectors' gains are not points against your life count, not opportunities lost, but you feel their elation, too. It's a win for everyone, every time a piece is saved from the landfill. You might look forward to snapping photos of the piece at the next show, because <i>this joy is what keeps us all going to shows</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If one embraces the Team mindset, every new collector is a potential friend and ally. This may be the home for that piece you rescued from the flea market, that just doesn't quite fit your collection. Or, maybe this is the dawn of fun trading, for years to come. If this person is also a networker, a team player, they could lead you to even more new collector friends. It is no exaggeration to use the word, "friends".<br /><br />As in Part One, it takes a Team to attend live auctions around work schedules. There are also benefits of show travel partners, sharing expenses, combined shipping to one address, and more sets of eyes to help assess potential purchases... the gifts of Teamwork.<br /><br />Remember your quirks, rules, and superstitions? Your Team learns them, and will keep more eyes out for what you are seeking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is Team collecting competitive? Maybe you like competing with each other in the show ring and in the auctions. That's OK, if it works out for all without hurt feelings. In other Teams, folks take turns deferring on items they both (or all) want. After a while, one learns how to tell which pieces are destined for another member of the group... knowing their tastes... and when it is time to ask others in your Team to please not bid/enter against you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I make a list of all the sales where I was seriously interested in an item, maybe one in ten collectors was considering going for that item with the same gusto. With eBay and so many online vintage shops, a ton of previously-thought "rare" ceramics have come to light, and can be had at any time. For the most part, these things were mass-produced. Yes, they have had to survive for decades, but chances are excellent that another of that same mold or color will become available, soon. In fact, one may see several of the same model hit eBay or hobby ads immediately after a sale of the first. Other people see that item's sales success, and think, "I have one of these! This is a good time to sell it!" There is even a button just to help browsers "Sell One Like This" on eBay. There's enough for everyone, out there. It gets more intense when it is a unique item, but others factors weigh in on that, as well. If it is damaged, or flawed such that it is not an ideal show entry, that turns off some collectors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This all edits down to maybe three like-minded collectors, rabid to the same degree, all after the same hypothetical flawed, damaged, weird item. If I am in contention, chances are pretty good that I know the other two collectors, and would be happy to see either of them get the item, if Fate rules that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can only see one: this is tough on highly competitive folks. They will be at odds with their own interests, every time they choose to defer and not bid on something they'd really, really like to own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a Completist, my personal 1:10 ratio is not going to apply, simply because this collector is seeking <i>literally everything</i>. The frequency and proportion climbs with the number of molds, colors, and buying opportunities they seek. Even under this internal pressure, Completists can and do find themselves embracing Team efforts and sharing the opportunities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this talk of networking and friends is not to say that the collecting world is bereft of bad apples. We all run into these, sooner or later. The networking collector will often get a warning or see behavior in online forums that protects them, before they engage the problem person. It is possible to be a Solo collector and avoid some pitfalls, because one doesn't have to participate or post in the online transaction forums to benefit from their warnings. It is harder for the Solo collector to navigate selling and buying with 100% success, simply because Team collectors exchange information that may never make it online, such as sensitive transactions or non-hobby vendors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I myself get a little too trusting, in my happy, safe network-cocoon. I forget that just because someone has posting privileges in a collector group does not mean they were vetted for compliance with PayPal or eBay, or that they have an inkling of how to conduct a transaction, in the first place. Predatory types can pose as anyone online, and certainly, we've seen a share of aliases that repeatedly victimized this trusting hobby. I recently forgot my oldest rule, "Always check their name on hobby transaction forums, first."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A huge, ongoing problem for collecting/buying from photos is not correctly assessing condition or mold detail. One person's idea of razor-sharp detail is not necessarily universal. (There was recently a discussion about this on breakables). The describing seller may not have seen a wide range of that mold in its many degrees of detail, so their description is just Opinion. A Solo collector could get into trouble, on either end of this transaction, without input from a network friend who had seen the model in person, and several more to compare.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A careless photo can mean either a rush, such as at the antiques flea market or auction, or a person who conducts all aspects of their transactions without care. Does the condition of the model in the photo match what it is being advertised as? Yes, this still occurs; I saw an advertising photo on FB this year, promoting a multiple-break, glued horse as "mint condition". A chipped ear or hoof, or a professionally restored horse, is not mint, either. It's either mint, damaged, or restored. There is no "restored to mint". Honest mistakes (or otherwise) happen all the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prove you are a solid citizen by building a sterling transaction history. Not just eBay feedback, but ask hobbyists you deal with to give you a review on the model horse reference forums. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get out there and mingle at shows, chat in the rooms with chinas at BreyerFest, join clubs, participate in discussions thoughtfully online. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Post a want list ad, and be specific about the condition, colors, and factory eras. When collectors reach out to you, treat each offer professionally, even if it is not appealing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Order yourself some hobby/collector business cards. Maybe this sounds funny to print up cards promoting yourself as a collector, but it's actually pretty cool. You never know where your card will come in handy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd love to share your favorite Collecting Team stories, in a future blog post. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />Gratitude to the network of collectors and professionals who have been helpful for blog posts, teaching me about collectibles and their history, building my collection, supporting the HRCC reboot, my show Clinky Classic, and my general joy in this hobby. Go Team!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-79564324142636378362015-03-09T18:32:00.001-07:002015-03-09T18:33:52.570-07:00Benefits of Collector Teamwork, Part One<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today's Muddy Monday is a little different format. I'm letting the Team- Diana, Christina Harrington, and Lois Bennington- tell their story. There will be a part two post about Team collecting, more of an analysis of the strategy. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It all began with a dream... Diana Dubbeld had a dream, February 21st.
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Oh, how we all got a sweet chuckle out of that status post. So many of us have had those vivid collector dreams. The difference here was that a couple days later, Diana learned that there was indeed an auction that week. Make that, TWO auctions with HRs in OH.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lois:</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So Christina contacted me last week about an auction on a Friday (27th). I don't usually look at Auction Zip for Friday auctions since I work. Christina had to work also. I managed to get the day off and went to the auction with hopes to get the following horses. I had planned on giving the lying Fez to Christina for finding the auction and Diana D gave me bids for the Bambi and the HR Jack and Jill. Here are the pictures of what we saw in the auction ad:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Lois:</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 6" Zilla and Lying Fez were nice but broken. The King Cortez was really pretty but had an ear chip. But I felt excited that he would be going home for me. The auction started at 10. The animal box lots never went up until after 2:30. (which made me hopeful that people were leaving and/or running out of funds). The first box that went up was the minis and I got into a bidding war with some guy. It ended up at $105.00. When he lost the bid, he looked really ticked. (I talked to him later and he was after the Bambi for resale). Here are pictures of what was in the mini box.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was standing there when the auctioneer asked HIM what was in the box and the bidder said that he bought it for the rearing horse and that it was worth $500.00. I asked him if he knew of the ear damage and he said yes, that he would do the restoration on them (Cortez, the Zilla and Fez also) and would resell them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The biggest news of the decade- of a lifetime- is that John Renaker's personal collection and his HR archives are being dispersed by his estate. The <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/renaker-family-trust/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=" target="_blank">auctions </a>have started, and they cycle each Sunday to Sunday. Check them out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without a doubt, many, <i>many</i> things from these auctions will be great subjects for future articles. I hope everyone who loves HR wins something to hold close to their hearts, as a piece from the archives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As clay motes before the old SlipMaster fly, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The assembly all settling right next to the plaque. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His glaze—how it twinkled! his details, how merry! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His claybodied mouth was drawn up like a bow, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a nice brunch visit with them, also collectors of various ilk. I even had time to sketch and email some projects to a client, while I nibbled kheer and gulab jamun. That sentence right there is my heaven on earth, my favorite combination of things to do! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was such a sunny day, we decided to extend our morning in town. We headed for the art supply store, which happens to be located next door to a vintage-and-antiques mall. While my husband gathered some supplies, I took a stroll through the mall, curious but expecting nothing. This mall is well known to all local chinaheads and Tikiphiles, and it is thoroughly (and weekly) combed by the same. These days, I never expect to find <i>anything</i> that fits my collecting focus; it's just not a statistic likelihood. I was mostly looking for Christmas gifts for friends. Where are all the Poodles?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost halfway through the mall, a figure at eye level shouted out to me. Collectors, you know what I mean! It was very shocking, almost dream-like, because there is only one known example. The one known example lives in my collection, at home. This was a completely different glaze finish, and it was slip-stuck to a functional item!<br /><br />"I know you! What are you doing here?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mind began to sort out the similarities to other non-HR Love ware, by the production value and colors. There are several Maureen Love molds that were not produced by Hagen-Renaker, but are known from her sketchbooks and single examples in her personal estate. She even mentioned having freelanced for Twin Wintons and others*, and a recorded interview identifies the owner of another pottery: <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2013/10/return-of-cryptomolds.html" target="_blank">Bill Lenaburg</a>. Some people call these the Mystery molds, but this blog has deduced that the factories that produced some of them were Marcia of California and Lane and Company Ceramics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the previously only known-to-the-hobby example, a gift from <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-celebration-of-collector-sharing.html" target="_blank">Margo Potheau</a>, just about a year ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After this random antiques mall find, I am happy to report that you, too, can own an OF version of this charming Love rooster! All you have to do is search Etsy and eBay. It is my best guess that these are Marcia of California, as the glazes are found on other MC functional ware. These plate molds show two of several ways that MC marked their molds. The round plate was also used with a non-Love rooster accent, and was the top of a <a href="http://evieshaus.blogspot.com/2014/05/catching-up-on-all-my-finds-pyrex.html" target="_blank">lazy susan egg dish</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pretty sure this will make my chicken-collecting pals very happy! Who knows, maybe your grandmother's egg dish had a bit of Love in it, all along?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some have a little streaking in the glaze where the rooster's white glaze ran down into the color glaze of the plate. Values online are under $30 for these plates. The Love rooster is the same mold for each. Like the Marcia/Lane Love Horses and Bull, the rooster's greenware cleaning and mold crispness varies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although the plate molds are also found with more upright-posed roosters, sculpted by someone else, the base where Maureen's rooster is attached appears custom-fit for both plate molds. Maybe the company gave Maureen a footprint outline, in which to sculpt the figure? Which came first, the chicken or the egg plate?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's very interesting is that this Rooster and the Fighting Bull both are done in Maureen's Cubist style, and both were represented in her estate by single examples, custom glazed by Maureen. It fits that they both turned up in OF Marcia/Lane production.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This find feels like another gift from Margo, and the timing gives me goosebumps. I am keeping my promise to identify and share Maureen's work with as many people as I can, with the help of the internet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collector friends, you are thus challenged: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What other "only one known" Love pieces may have been produced by other manufacturers? Let's find them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">References:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Kelly, Nancy. Horse, Bird, and Wildlife Figures of Maureen Love: Hagen-Renaker and Beyond. Page 8. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.: Atglen, PA, 2003.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-87060861790626650912014-12-08T17:27:00.001-08:002014-12-09T07:40:24.684-08:00Cast This Way<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post does not reflect the opinions of Hagen-Renaker nor its employees. The following is my opinion and interpretation of the submitted examples.
This disclaimer is necessary because the established stance is that HR's Designers Workshop molds were never altered between Monrovia and San Dimas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The awkward grazing pose of a young, leggy animal is captured in the Hagen-Renaker "Scamper" mold. Designed by Maureen Love in 1953, as best as we can guess, while the stickers read "1953" on the Colts. The Handbook says, "Spring 1954 through Fall 1958". As I do not have access to the 1953 order forms, I can't check if this was the actual release year. The mold was released in brown gloss with character eyes, brown matte, palomino gloss with character eyes, palomino matte, and white matte. I did find a date error.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Handbook indicates that the white color was only made 1958, while it is only present on the order forms for 1954.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Japan copy was produced by Enterprise Exclusive. It is from an entire set of copies of the HR Morgan foals: Scamper, Clover, and Roughneck. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other models in the chart, with the exception of the EE Japan, all have lash-dot eyes with eye-white. The Japan lacks the eye-white decoration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What she's <b>not</b>: a white slip Scamper pulled out of the white gray decoration line-up, and accidentally sprayed as if a palomino. Her body slip is tinted a cold eggshell color, almost a greenish tan. She has the same rust color body shading as seen on regular palomino Fillies of her sub-era. The shading and hoof black is even decorated at the same angles and in the same places, so it "feels" like a genuine HR.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw the above mare in harsh lighting before, I thought she was a white slip casting, factory-goofed as palomino. W</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ithout seeing this horse in natural light, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't tell you if she has the same cold eggshell color of body slip, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">contrasting with the white legs and mane/tail, as the Scamper. The similarity is pretty uncanny, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wait. In the chart, this Oddity is a full quarter inch smaller in every dimension than her siblings, yet weighs right about the same. How is this possible?</span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or, she might be a Japan copy. I have heard a rumor that a person once-associated with the company went forward with some DW molds to be made overseas, many years ago, against HR's wishes. I have seen very few Asian copy molds as nice as this, and none that matched complex airbrush angles, stroke for stroke.</span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether they glitter or not, with knobs or nobs, this mold is one of my favorites. It is a great study in animal sculpture. Too often, Scampers get passed up in the show ring because they are grazing, and it's hard to see their faces. Perhaps this will lead to a new appreciation of their variety, even within the mold's most common color: palomino. Do you have a brown or white with even more variations?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to Jayne Kubas, Ed Alcorn, and Marcia Miner for the use of your models and/or photos!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Benuish, Alison, ed. Hagen-Renaker Research Materials: 1949- Present. N. pag. Salisbury, MD: WMHC, 1995. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roller, Gayle. Hagen-Renaker: A Charlton Standard Guide. Third Edition. Page 76. The Charlton Press: Palm Harbor, FL, 2003. </span><br />
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<br />Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-79430547347887194912014-12-01T06:50:00.003-08:002014-12-01T06:50:57.767-08:00Seasons Gloatings? A Perceived "Vice" Explained<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we enter the <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2014/11/collectors-vs-holidays-survey.html" target="_blank">time of year</a> when many china collectors add to their herds, there is a very visual side effect found in the aftermath. Collectors will often share a photo or two of their latest acquisition on social media.<br /><br />Truth be told, this sharing phenomenon occurs year-round, with collectors always finding something interesting in our collecting hobby. Depending on which online collecting group you frequent, the increase in posted photos is quite noticeable in late December.<br /><br />Some people feel that this is a rude habit, "bragging", but here is why it is not:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China collectors build groups on social media with the purpose of sharing photos with each other. There are also model horse photo competitions, which are unrelated to the collector groups. If you go waaaaay back to the old mimeographed Model Horse Showers Journal's, and even the printed The Hobby Horse News, you will find ads where collectors share one particular model, listing its wins and pedigree, in the tradition of real horse showcase advertising. Most of us over the age of 18 have at least a passing familiarity with this within the model horse hobby, and we don't see it as "boasting" in the rude sense. It was promotion of a show horse, just like real horses are promoted. In other words, collectors view this showcasing without malice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of the goal of the braggart- to inspire envy- the collector share is just, "Hey, isn't this neat? Do you know more about it?". It is meant to inspire wonder, memory, and critical thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. A nurturing environment with an interest in freshly rediscovered antique equine art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shares are being made, as point 1 identified, to an audience already prepped for a positive, traditional context. As a group, we love ceramic art, and the more we see, the happier we are!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. The sharing doesn't fit the format of the attention-seeking "humble brag" so many complain about on social media.<br /><br />A humble brag is a boastful post or description on a shared photo, self-deprecating, often minimizing the difficulty or expense in acquisition. Example: "I tripped over this on the way to the mailbox" captioning a photo of a shiny new motorcycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China collectors just don't do that, or if they do, it's a private message for laughs between close friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If it was a bargain, the information is provided to encourage other collectors that cheap finds can still be had, they are still out there, and the era of eBay has not destroyed all chances of an affordable score. It's not meant to tear down others as a brag, but to be uplifting to the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If full collector price was paid, it was generally already public knowledge due to online ads or auctions. To reiterate and report that price on the photo share is rather redundant, so most do not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. It puts the sharer more at risk of negative attention. They do it anyway, because they want their friends to experience enjoyment of the art, and the sharer hopes to learn something, as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Risk of negative attention? Yes, when you share photos online, even to a private group, you open yourself up to uninvited offers to trade or purchase your item. This can be a little off-putting or even alarming, as selling the item was probably the last thing on your mind when you posted the photo. A gift from a loved one, or perhaps a find of a lifetime, and even years later, you get emails... Sometimes, the requests are quite persistent and distracting. It can really get out of hand when your shared photo is used without permission, sometimes in want ads. As the poster, you feel raw being pestered to begin with, and then photo theft adds lemon juice to the wound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what are the benefits? Replies, comments, or Likes? A genuine photo share is not fueled by a boastful person seeking such tepid ego strokes. The only real benefit the sharer was seeking was history or other conformation that the crowd might have to offer. There are so many makes and materials of ceramics to collect, it is very difficult to acquire all the knowledge, let alone most of the books, on every single one. Many manufacturers are not even covered by books, yet. Trivia preserved by specialist collectors can be seen as gems to be mined by sharing a photo and jolting a memory. Education is the main benefit of sharing, for both sharer and the audience. The second possible benefit is if someone else out there has the mate to go with it, or a foal to complete a set, and that someone offers the piece needed for completion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those looking at our collecting hobby from the outside may not understand why we tolerate online "bragging", but to us, it is far beyond that low form. Don't call it bragging, gloating, or boasting. Scientists share their findings in published papers, is that bragging? Of course not, it is discovery. That is similar to how collectors view their sharing: bringing something new, lost, or hidden to light!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>How do you know that cold is a threat to ceramics?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fact: Extreme cold makes standard ceramics more brittle. Silica ceramic space shuttle tiles are not in discussion, here. Our typical ceramics, going from room temp to freezing contact (such as in snow, or a cold stream), are at risk for breakage. I know it's pretty to photograph ceramic models in streams and lakes, but there is an inherent risk. There is also the problem of a hollow body, full of warm room-temp air, and those thin legs, now deep in snow... There is a temperature differential between body & legs that can't be good. I've heard of a ceramic horse that shattered its body on impact with snow. Cold is not a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />When hot or cold meets a room temp (or more extreme) item, the resulting spontaneous damage is from the thermal shock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Picture the ceramic horse as not only a big, hollow body with solid-poured, delicate legs, but the clay and glaze each have layers, bonds, and weaknesses inside them, due to salts, hard minerals, how much water was used to seam them after drying, and the temperature at which they were first bisqued.<br /><br />Now picture this horse, with all of its many variables, some intrinsic and some acquired, full of air at any temp, and then expose just its surface area to a temperature extreme from that inner temp. Or how about just its legs? Maybe a soak of cold rain or sleet? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thermal shock makes the bad stuff happen right where the materials host these temperature and humidity extremes. The bad stuff is dunting, shattering, shivering, and shock-caused (not age-related) glaze crackle.<br /><br />Nothing good comes of this, unless, of course, you are doing a raku. Even then, there is planning, and things still can explode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthenware is the most susceptible, although stoneware, porcelain and bone china also can be damaged by extremes. A home dishwasher is a micro-climate extreme example. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/caring-for-your-ceramics/" target="_blank">Victoria & Albert Museum site</a> puts it succinctly:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because my kiln says so. "Unload kiln when temperature [of the kiln interior] falls below 130</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">˚</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F." Just above this, it says the kiln must not be used where it exceeds 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">˚</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F, so it is assumed that some kind of climate control is in use around this model of kiln. The 100</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">˚</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F limit is intended to protect the KilnMaster computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is little chance that deliveries will be made on a day where your local outdoor temperature is 130</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">˚</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F, so don't sweat it. The big trailers, that carry parcels to distribution centers, are said to reach 130</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">˚</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F inside. Most people do not receive a box direct from a tractor-trailer at their doorstep, and usually hours have passed since that exposure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Now, if your item has known restorations, and was shipped through extremely hot or humid weather (including the weather at carrier hubs, where it sat on sizzling tarmac) that is probably bad news, whether you open it sooner or later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>What is the most heat-retaining package material?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To put it simply, Air. The more closed bubbles of it, the more it holds the temperature at which it was packed.<br /><br />Styrofoam and egg crate foam are the winners in this. Bear in mind, for summer shipping, egg crate heats up fast and holds that warmth. Cold-painted (including restored areas of chinas) will want to stick to it, if heated.<br /><br />I don't recommend shipping with a heat pack, because the one pack means heat on one side, and cold on the outer extremities. Even if the warmth is retained in foam, it only lasts about 6-12 hours. This is why live animals are shipped by overnight 10am delivery, or faster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>The package insurance covers any breakage if the box got too cold in transit, right?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only if you also inquired and bought that carrier's Freeze Damage insurance policy, which is a whole separate fee from normal insurance coverage. The USPS, for instance, does not cover damage from freezing nor overheating in transit, even if you bought their regular insurance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a few variations on a theme of Wait. When the box is handed to me by the carrier, I carefully set it down near a space heater and don't touch it until it's warmed up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knowing how outer boxes insulate, I will sometimes cut open the tape on the outer box only, arrange the flaps open, and sweep any styrofoam peanuts off the top of the inner box. I don't move the boxes, at all. Now, room temp air can touch the outside top of the inner box.<br /><br />If the boxes weren't terribly cold, and the inner box feels room temp, I can open it at the end of the day. Sometimes, I don't open it for 24 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Why do you tape the open edges and the seam of boxes, not just the long, middle closure?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because when a box travels through various hubs, it may be exposed to humidity, rain, snow, leakage from other boxes. Even just a simple edge taping can reduce the risk of box failure. I have had soaked boxes arrive that were only held together by the extra edge tape. They resembled the sagging Halloween pumpkins of mid-November. Not only does this tape help guard against the loss of the box's integrity during storms, but it prevents that super-cold moisture from seeping into the packing that touches the ceramic horse. Icy water suddenly soaking a room-temp, insulated ceramic induces temperature shock, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that I have thoroughly horrified you with some risks to shipping in extreme weather, I will share one little story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sudden snow storm came up here, while I was anticipating the arrival of an (earthenware) vintage Hagen-Renaker large Zara. The shipper had done a fine job, but the postal online tracking system, the day before she was due to arrive, completely lost her. When my mail arrived that afternoon, no Zara, the post office itself had closed to the public for the day. Snow had upset the normal carrier schedules. A phone call to the PO, now after hours, and they said they'd take a look in back, but it wasn't on the computer (no kidding). When they had found it, they called and instructed me to pick it up right then, since the staff were still working in the back. The snow was coming down thick, and my husband drove us there. At the back door, I received a wet box that was positively freezing. It felt like it had been sitting outside in the snow storm, on the loading dock, for hours. It looked like it had been dropped a few times, too.<br /><br />I got into the car with dashed hopes. There was no way this survived. The only comfort was that I knew the Zara already had some damage. I waited an hour, with the box by a space heater, and figured the shock damage was done- why wait any longer?<br /><br />Thanks to the seller's packing, she was fine. Ice cold to the touch, and I let her rest in her packing a while longer, but no new damage.<br /><br />Take a little extra time with your winter arrivals, and always ship something the way you'd like to receive it. Stay warm, and enjoy your new additions!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-10023336951332713372014-11-10T10:46:00.000-08:002014-11-10T10:47:10.250-08:00Collectors Vs. The Holidays: Survey<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.9400005340576px; margin-top: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here at the studio, we notice a change in hobby activity between late October (about Hallowe'en) and February 1st. When I lived in CA, the hobbies steamed forward year-round, due to the mild weather. There, model horse shows and sci-fi conventions were held year-round, almost every month. A quick glance at the CA horse show calendar seems to indicate that, with the exception of a quiet July during BreyerFest/NAN, this continues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">Sales were not tainted by weather too cold to ship breakables, nor waiting for roads to be safe to drive to the local Breyer dealer to choose the latest releases, and the local economy ensured </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">at least some significant</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;"> sales, even close to the holidays. Likewise, the sci-fi sales drop around mid-November because formerly-single collectors have gone on to become parents, and they now have to budget for Christmas action playsets for their kids, not for themselves. Partners and co-parents look askance at a spouse spending the house payment on a toy for themselves, when the offspring needs a new Christmas bike for his commute to school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why does the hobby buying pick up in February? This is about when early tax-filers are getting their tax refund checks, and they do a little shopping. Big shows also pick up again in late March/early April, which means interest in new (or new to them) horses to add to the new year's show string. Also, the post-holidays expenses have been paid off in January, and breathing easy commences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">I've been in the Mid-South of the USA for over a decade, and winter weather and local economy surely hamper major hobby activity. Some hobbyists manage winter collection tours or visit each other locally, but wide-ranging travel is subdued and individual. Our weather is unpredictable and can close roads in a matter of minutes with downed trees, power lines, ice, or flash flooding. Here, formal NAN-qualifier shows drop off after November; even my own show was moved up a month to avoid wild weather. Hobby sales over the holidays are thwarted by both a weak regional economy and, online, it's a Buyer's Market- lots of awesome competition! It's a hobby deadzone for us, with the exception of commercial art jobs, which peak at this time of year and have zero-tolerance deadlines. (And people wonder why we don't travel!) One of my artist friends assures me that it is her busiest direct-to-collectors sales time of the year. Her products are not holiday-themed, so it's not time-sensitive. This opposite dynamic puzzled me, and I wondered if it was also present from the collector perspective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 65% said the holiday time did change their strategy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interestingly, ~18% specifically mentioned that they become vigilant for bargains to be had when other collectors put up items suddenly, to raise money for their personal family gift-giving. This is definitely a condition specific to the holiday season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only 53% purposefully incorporate ceramic horses (not static year-round cabinets) into their holiday decor. So, about 6% do holiday decoration, but models are not purposefully included.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Have you ever bought a ceramic horse model with the express purpose of using it for holiday decoration (examples: AA Christmas and Halloween models, HR horse & sleigh)?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There seemed to be some confusion over what sort of models I was asking about, although this survey was advertised only to ceramics collector circles. Some respondents said they purchase and decorate with plastic Holiday models, or ornaments (which are not model horses in the primary sense). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The result of 47% calculates only for those who purposefully purchased <i>ceramic Holiday-themed model horses for holiday display</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guests show no response 41%, whether because no one notices, or due to guests being acclimated to the homeowner's collecting habit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Positive guest response was at 35%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Shouldn't your china dishes be in there?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Are the holidays a hinderance to your collector activities, such as attending shows, or buying/selling on eBay?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"nothing to do but watch eBay" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"no shows, less selling"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"depends on work schedule, less energy to participate"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "more obligations"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"time & money reduced"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"nothing to buy"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">On the bright side, "still go to shows", "my eBay sales increase", and "I save up for the UK china releases that always come at this time of year" were positive points of the holiday season for some ceramics collectors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Do you feel non-collectors give you "the hairy eyeball" at this time of year because you are a collector?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boy, did I ever get this from both family and acquaintances. Family believe they know best for the collector. There may be expressed opinions that certain luxury items are actually necessities, compared to yet another model for a collection. I still would argue that cosmetics and couture are luxury items that can be dismissed in favor of a Grail for a collector. Those things lose value with time, and literally expire or fade, while many ceramics prove to be good investments, in the hands of a collector. There are also those who are unaware of (frequently kept private) charitable acts by the collector, and disapprove any visible non-essential acquisition during the season of giving. Those closest to the collector may know of their charity work and donations year-round, and would never disparage the few joys they allow for themselves, not even at Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No judgement upon the collector: 59%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">Yes, there's that holiday "hairy eyeball": 18%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9400005340576px;">Emphatic, "at all times of year" disapproval: ~12%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(With rounding up figures, I realize that's 101%.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether you welcome or dread the holiday season, this may show you what a handful of your fellow collectors experience. It may even give you insight into how they make the holidays work for their collecting habits. Maybe it's just comforting to know that they, too, cope with reactions from non-collectors. Go forward, and make it the best season, yet!</span></div>
Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-25836334148407246512014-10-16T09:05:00.002-07:002014-10-16T09:05:40.519-07:00Plasticarve: "That Wax Maureen Used"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you ever found the Love estate auctions on the Hagen-Renaker On-Line Museum site, chances are that a big question mark formed in your head, as if sculpted right out of "Plastic Carve". Several auction items were described as made of this material, correctly spelled "Plasticarve". This keyword alone has no English leads on Google, until this post, at least!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, Maureen sculpted rough models in modeling plastilina (oil-based, waxy clay that can't be kiln-fired). She'd make a waste mold on this original, since most manufacturers wanted a hard master for making their own molds. Her waste molds are sometimes called "ball molds", and have a rounded shape, compared to squared-off molds for production. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To cut weight, instead of pouring a solid matrix on each side, she flicked plaster on segments and gradually built a ball-shape around the model. The empty ball mold would be soaked in water, drained, and then hot Plasticarve was poured inside to make a new positive/figure. The Plasticarve had traits of both wax and clay, and even plaster (polishing potential). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By resculpting and smoothing out the Plasticarve, she got a perfectly refined, hard master that could hold up its own weight, without a wire armature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that you can see how useful this material is, I'm delighted to be able to share with you the story of Plasticarve, from the son of its licensed manufacturer. He contacted me after finding a <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2014/05/muddy-monday-post-position.html" target="_blank">mention of Plasticarve</a> on this blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The inventor of Plasticarve was Pat Crouse. The story I know is that he developed it for use in the aircraft industry for fairing wings to fuselages in the ‘40s. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The inventor, with some partners, made up a craft kit that consisted of an instruction booklet, some tools ( knife, pencil, carving tools) in a box. A pattern for a head of Lincoln was included.
This was in the 1940’s. The story, as it came to me, is that Pat ( the inventor) had contracts with major department stores for Christmas, and then there was a railroad strike that prevented getting the product out, so the venture went bankrupt. My dad bought the residual goods, so we had hundreds of the knives and wax pencils stored for years and years….we would sell a couple a year. I used to have one of the booklets but I think it is lost now.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">My father bought the residual business from Pat (a family friend) and continued the sales to sculptors, ceramicists, and the like. After he died I continued to make it, but it was a struggle since I had no permanent place to keep the equipment for mixing, etc. so I eventually gave it up.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have looked for an alternative to Plasticarve on the market, as I guess there are still people that need the low temperature melting point and easy working with hand tools, but I have not found one. Computer modeling and 3-D printing is all the fashion now but I guess there are still artists who want to work with their hand tools directly.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great to read your story about the Plasticarve model from Maureen that turned out to be <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2013/09/muddy-monday-not-whole-ball-of-wax.html" target="_blank">slipcast</a>. My dad used to make plasticarve and I guess he sold it to Maureen, either directly or via Westwood Ceramic. I have the old account books so I can check if she was a direct customer or not.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did the easy part, i.e. flipped through the business records from the 50s to the 70s. Unless Maureen used a business name she was not a direct customer, so maybe she bought the Plasticarve from a Southern California ceramics supply, who used to carry it in their catalog.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">... in the old days we had a couple of steady customers from the toy industry. The story was that they would sculpt the masters for toys in Plasticarve, then electroplate a copper mold directly on the Plasticarve master to replicate it in plastics. I remember meeting one of the artists at a trade show and he definitely did not want to talk about Plasticarve in public ( this was the 60’s) since he regarded it as one of his trade secrets.</span><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" /><span style="background-color: white;">I am not sure that anyone does that any more, since the 3-D machining is everywhere. Although I work in the tech industry I do not use any of the 3D modeling software so I do not know how intuitive the user interfaces may be.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, I found a toy collectors <a href="http://forum.rebelscum.com/t920866-5/" target="_blank">forum</a> talking about this use:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ron pretty much nails the description of Plasticarve, right there. I've seen it in gray, cream, and light pink. Sci-fi nerds take note: this came from a discussion about the original 1977 Star Wars action figure prototypes in Plasticarve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer to that is, "very carefully". My first professional experience with Plasticarve was when I designed the Miniatures Guinea Pig for Hagen-Renaker, in late 1995. I recall that when I completed the brown plastilina model, Laurilyn made the waste mold. The mold is a sculpture, in itself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so careful to not break off his wee feet, while cleaning off his mold lines and sharpening his detail in the nostrils, eyes, and fur texture. I love how easy it is to polish, fill, and shape, and yet it is strong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I found your website….we are from the same part of California, since I grew up in Orange County. I was interested to read that Maureen worked for a company in Monrovia, since my parents had many friends in that area. </span><span style="background-color: white;">My dad was a potter in addition to working as an engineer ( mostly throwing on the wheel) so I wonder if he knew the folks at the company Maureen worked for….I will ask my mom the next time I see her.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">...Just so you are not disappointed, one difference that you will notice is that the color has changed. I used to add pigment to get the white color, but the pigment went out of production so now the color is sort of grey.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ed Alcorn's Hagen-Renaker On-Line Museum:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pretty lucky the first time, to happen to be online when Jennifer Dodd reached out to me for values opinion, during a <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2014/09/in-with-bad-out-with-good.html" target="_blank">live auction of an estate with Monrovia Hagen-Renaker horses</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was doubly lucky to be asked a second time, but this time, Jennifer was contacted directly by the auctioneer with "more of those horses you like". I may have come to mind again because 1. I restored a couple of her initial lot, and 2. I happened to be located on the way to the pick up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She messaged me some photos, and asked for values. I sent her the numbers, with their total, and the next thing I know... "Are you free?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, this must have been meant to be, because I had just sent off a commission for approval ahead of deadline, so I had nothing to do on that until I heard back. I had finished demolding, and all the studio shipping and receiving for the day. Let's go save them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, the "Let's go save them!" impulse was running pretty strong in both of us. The last thing we wanted to see was any more loss and damage to these old, ceramic artworks. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We didn't know what to expect, so we both grabbed boxes and wrapping materials, and tossed them in her car. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These horses were in the exact same situation that damaged the others; the circumstance that we were told led to the complete obliteration of a Crusader, large white Honora, and a small rose gray Zara. We didn't want to see that painful story repeat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Duplicates? The same horses, just held back? I will leave that to the reader to speculate, but luck certainly played some part in this. We're just grateful that the auctioneer directly reached out to collectors, and didn't just put them in some random lot of housewares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This paleness is not an acquired thing, it can't occur with age; this is how she left the factory. Are they found any paler? Her gray shading batch is likewise tinted differently, a brown or flesh, instead of normal gray. Her mold detail is equal, but without dark shading for contrast on the edges, it is hard to see at a distance. Of course, this is exactly the sort of variation I collect, as a potter. It may not appeal to collectors seeking a competitive show horse, because it would appear flat/lacking detail on the judging table. This really was meant to be... she was meant to "find" me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> We could not have asked for a happier ending! Those lost are safely in one piece, in collector hands. I hope this cheers all the folks who cried with us over the reported losses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gratitude to Jennifer Dodd, for the spontaneous sharing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-91530819619974779622014-09-22T07:31:00.001-07:002014-09-22T07:31:41.746-07:00Muddy Monday: Ceramic Performance Showing<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Performance is the only division at a model horse show where the use of scale miniature tack and props are required to enhance the entry, and tell a story. Many model horse people never consider showing their fragile horses in this complicated manner, but it is a resurging trend. Perhaps tackmaker innovations (breakaway girths, wax-on splint boots, etc.), more ceramics issued with the option of a base, and the growing comfort level fostered by all-ceramics shows have contributed to this shift?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We search antique fairs, flea markets, eBay, and estate sales for these vintage treasures. We keep them safe, clean, restored, and carefully stored. We often forego shipping to hand-carry them to their new homes. They are often highly valuable and some are irreplaceable. Put miniature leather tack on them, stand them up in scenes, and have them judged at a show? Are you mad?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not crazy, but quite serious, yes. Showing ceramics in performance, where tack and props are used to create a real life vignette, has a long history in the model horse hobby. It can be done via "photo showing", where the entries are submitted as carefully staged photos, digitally or hard copies through the mail, or at a "live show". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people view Performance showers as a breed of their own, much as ceramics collectors and exhibitors are viewed. They do have a lot in common, so it was natural for all-ceramic shows to offer Performance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhibitor Kim Jacobs creatively showed her Arabians in a variety of African, Asian (India being part of Asia), and Middle Eastern riding cultures:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sure, these are expensive ceramics to replace, but they <i>can be</i> replaced. What about performance showing unique tests, or custom glazes? Is that still even done?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good luck with your future investigations into Performance showing your ceramics. There is no limit to the creativity or historical era, as long as it can be a recreation of a real-life horse use. Is your model performing tricks at Liberty on a movie set? Is your horse part of a reenanctment? If you can find real life reference, even ancient art, add it to your set up as documentation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have questions about attending or Performance at Clinky Classic, just drop me a message. Entries close soon (October 1st, 2014) for the next show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to all the intrepid ceramics exhibitors who shared their images for this post!</span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-86554832065669761882014-09-15T05:20:00.001-07:002014-09-15T05:20:20.013-07:00In With The Bad, Out With The Good<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day started with my usual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClinkyClassic" target="_blank">Clinky Classic show</a> prep at this time of year, a whole mess of slipcasting. In between topping off the levels of liquid clay in the molds, I pick up disconnected areas of my messy studio. I've made it a goal to clear a section each day, until it's totally clean except for a pre-show dusting. While I was cleaning, I took a hard look at all the off-topic things in the cabinets of my studio. This is the clutter I can't throw away because it is composed of meaningful artworks, even if they are not the focus of what I collect, anymore.There are entire sub-collections that I haven't added to in a decade or more, but that would make my fellow collectors so happy. Also, if I am going to move into the family farm house soon, why pack, move, and unpack items I scarcely look at, when I can pack and rehome items, and make room? As the molds drained the excess slip, I started dusting these items, taking sales photos, and advertising them <a href="http://www.modelhorsesalespages.com/searchlist.asp?AccID=8851" target="_blank">online</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes, you can look at a cabinet and know immediately when it is time for the contents to find new homes. It's not always a drastic downsizing, maybe a little shift, or a realization that a fellow collector could enjoy it now as I have, in the past. As undying fired earth, it is part of a continuum that extends before and after me; as a mortal curator, I feel better when I go with that flow of "where things need to go". Not in the sense of putting things away, of course. Look how long it's taking me to clean this studio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uploading photos and writing ads necessitates being in the office, on my computer. I hate everything about that: the chair, computers in general, lighting, and the smell of the air. I am not an office person. Still, to get things done, I sit here and get through it as fast as I can. I usually compose this blog with pen and paper, then input it all on the computer as fast as possible. The office is not my native environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suddenly, around 3pm, a series of Facebook private messages came zinging through, as I worked. All of them were confusing, jumbled multi-horse photos with no text. Just broken vintage HRs and Japanese imports, and their parts, randomly placed in flats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just typed back, "goodness bless their broken selves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Did you save them all?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'd even look under that tapestry for legs"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What collector is prepared to see that? I couldn't tell much from the images, just that some were damaged Monrovia era Hagen-Renakers. Since I do restorations for hire, I assumed it was a purchase that the owner wanted restored. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, they were not yet purchased!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sender, Jennifer Dodd, is a china collector friend who stumbled upon this estate auction's ad, and had to investigate. This is what the auctioneers' ad showed to prospective bidders:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "They destroyed and threw away at least three. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Don't even have trash anymore. Crusader, Honora, small Zara</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Said they broke to dust. I want to cry"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Auction companies are notorious for manhandling breakable items. To bear witness to this via photographs, let alone in person, can make one physically ill. There is no respect, it's just a job to the auction staff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can imagine, Jennifer is now feeling queasy, upon seeing the reality after the auctioneers split them into lots. She messaged me in blind hope that I would happen to be online and see the message, and help her guess values for bidding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was sheer luck that I was doing sales ads at that moment, and my FB was signed in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a crazy thing happened. Jen asked me if I wanted to bid on anything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it's no secret by now that I like mold detail and that I only collect certain molds. This keeps me focused and methodical about acquisitions. Something about building the congas (rows of the same sculpture in different colors) is very fun to me. There's a puzzle, a challenge, and it's not a checklist of numbers. When you are a collector of variants and factory goofs and customs, there are no checklists. You never know what will compose your conga!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told her which molds I was after in the photos, but that I did not want to step on her own purchases. After all, she was sharing this with me, and doing the work! She even sent me closeup photos of the lots:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I saw that photo, I replied, "The Abdullah has throat wrinkles, that's nice." She had said his detail was moderate. His throat made me wonder if he was better, beneath all the dirt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roan Lady happens to be one of the molds I conga. Maybe I should say, "a mold I aim to conga". It's been a slow build, and I've had many a missed connection. My husband even tried to secretly buy one like this at BreyerFest one year, as a surprise Christmas present, but a sharp collector beat him to it. The years haven't deterred me, I remain a fan. I even sculpted her <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2014/04/muddy-monday-reunited-in-clay.html" target="_blank">real-life mate and made him in ceramic</a>. This sad little white Monrovia Roan Lady was breaking my heart, with her apparent gray mildew and mysterious yellow debris. Her broken leg didn't worry me, but her potential stains did. I told Jennifer how much I was in for, and hoped for the best. The last I heard was a little after 4pm, when she was waiting on that lot. She would let me know if she won that lot, and would drop it off at my studio, after the auction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hours crept by, with no message, text, nor phone call. I have been to auctions. I know how it feels when I lose the lots I wanted: I don't particularly feel chatty. I kept working, demolding wet clay horses, and assumed that she had a bad auction day and went home. I made my dinner, worked some more, and put it out of mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At almost 8:30pm, she called while on the road... her phone had died, so she couldn't reach me sooner, but she had won the lot! Roan Lady was in the backseat. She was on her way to the studio, and wanted to stop and drop RL off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was gathering some restoration/cleaning gear when I heard the car pull up. She had arrived so soon, I had to check that it wasn't a trespasser! There may have been a little flying by way of car... maybe someone was a little excited from the auction. And rightly so...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She started unpacking her lots: some vintage Breyers, metal horses, and most of the china lot. Part of it had been shared with her friend that attended the auction that day. Everything present had the same mildew/dust combination, in varying amounts. Someone had collected Horse Shaped Objects for many years, and loved them enough to attempt mending their original damage. On old breaks on Man O' War, they used either wood finisher's crayon or Crayolas to match his color. Someone <i>tried</i>. They cared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jennifer urged me to take "before" photos of the main HRs in the lot, as I started showing her the alcohol cleaning process. On the right, is how they were after the auctioneers added damage to them. Left, just clean and glued, no putty or paint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sat cleaning and mending horses until almost one o'clock in the morning. There's nothing quite like the sense of purpose when rescuing old pottery art. Jennifer learned the cleaning process, from alcohol to glue removal, and assisted with gluing the mends with the accelerant. She did a couple ceramic imports on her own, and they turned out to be adorable treasures! Looks like she's ready to take on the epoxy putty, next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The continuum carries forward, and some unknown person's beloved horses are now getting fixed and loved again. Sadness gets turned into a positive. I was happy to also find a loving home for an earlier restored rescue horse that didn't fit in my collection themes. By next week, all my ads will be done and more ceramics will have new, appreciative homes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many thanks to Jennifer Dodd for bringing this all about, and to her intrepid auction buddy Jessica Mashburn for helping her keep it together all afternoon. What an amazing surprise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Giant molds seem to be the rarest survivors. I'm not sure why this is. Perhaps fewer were ordered from the potteries? The littler guys were probably much cheaper at wholesale. Maybe retailers ordered fewer of the big guys because the little guys were easier to display and sell? My gut tells me that the Giants were so big that moving them from household to household was cumbersome. Shipping them is a pain, so we seldom see them on eBay for anything besides "pick up only". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What happens when a Giant breaks? Does it immediately go to the dump as over-sized broken junk? Nope. Somebody felt this Giant was worth saving, despite missing an entire leg. Maybe the Giant's size, in that antiques dealers sometimes associate size with value, is what saves them when they are damaged?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In summary, I have now seen all the 239 Leg Outs including ring-neck (except the first version H-15 of '62), both leg styles of H-114, and A-9 in both White and Black Pearl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no record of any of the small H-1 facing right rearing guys nor the Giant H-11 in a Pearl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing as H-1 v. 1 and H-15/'62 are what <i>I think</i> are the earliest molds, I'd hazard a guess that the Pearls were later colors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about something else we've not seen here, before? What if they made the A-9 Naturals in a color similar to a bay? Don't get excited, no eyes, but it's quite different than the other Naturals!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Derivative molds abound, but the fact that some colourways matched the Lane/Marcia colors is quite charming. One could display a matching set, even with derived later mold versions. This so appealed to the average home decorator of the time. Picturing a living room with one of those old enormous cabinet TVs, topped with an entire set of gold-purple-whites, arranged on huge lace doilies, just tickles me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you found a mold/color combination not previously recorded on this blog? Email me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to Joan Berkwitz, Jayne Kubas, and Heather Jackson-Lain for some of the images in this post!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-81747179195006479632014-08-04T19:33:00.001-07:002014-08-04T19:33:48.938-07:00Fearless in Handling Ceramics<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a person who handles a lot of ceramics- in collecting, producing, and restoring them- I get asked how I got so comfortable with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Where did you get nerves of steel? And, can we borrow some?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Practice, and developing a light yet secure grip, is key to reaching a certain comfort level. The other thing is, I know no experience I will face with ceramics, not even shipping them blind across the country or the oceans, will ever be as harrowing as the one that shaped me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was the summer of 1996, and I was about to experience my very first trip to BreyerFest in Lexington, KY. I had only been to one model horse event outside my home state of California, prior to this mega-convention. I had never flown with models before, and on top of that, I am not a big fan of air travel. Let's just say, it was a big commitment of finances, courage, and a general gamble. I was living at Pour Horse Pottery, at the time. Joan Berkwitz and I were convinced that we needed to vend at this ultimate model horse convention to properly promote the then-fledgling pottery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Joan produced a bunch of Bressay ceramic ponies to sell at the 'Fest to cover her expenses, I made some claybody customs to sell to cover my share of the hotel and my flight. When I did OFs and customs, I paid Joan to do the moldmaking, pouring, and airbrushing, and I did the rest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the 1990's. The only other claybody customs (ceramics resculpted in greenware) known at that time were the cold-painted (unglazed) works of Janice Brent Starr. There was no Custom Glaze division in shows. Glazed claybodies were so rare and new, people often asked, "What am I looking at? Will it last?" because the idea of changing a ceramic was not yet commonplace. Longevity was a question because customized Breyers, with their cracking putty and fillers, were the only analogs. With big dreams of funding my entire trip and keeping my dog in prescription food, I claybodied a Voltage into a trot, and an Owynn into a cantering pose. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also filling Voltage orders at the time, as the 90-day ordering period had closed, and the claybodies were worked on in stolen moments. They were risky poses, had delicate facial details, and were generally the ultimate I had done in art, up to that time. They were each going to be sold for nearly 8 times what a Voltage earned me, after the dealers' cut. Hopes. Dreams. Ambitions. Eggs. One basket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Literally, one basket. I didn't own luggage (I had a backpack), but Joan loaned me the use of her small vintage ladies' cosmetic hard-side case. It was the right size to fit under a plane seat, and I fully intended to carry-on these horses. Frankly, if I could have had them installed surgically for the flight, I might have considered it. That is the only way I can summarize how seriously I needed these horses to survive their voyage to BreyerFest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: this is long before 9/11. There was no aggressive TSA. In fact, flying was super mellow and easy, compared to today's security routine. You could go to the gates with your family to see them off or meet them. You could buy a ticket with cash at the counter. These were carefree times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, here we are, arriving at San Diego airport to fly to Lexington. It's July, and we even went out and got new summer clothes for the trip because we heard that Kentucky was really hot and muggy (men's shorts, no super-short shorts that are routinely marketed to young ladies). We resembled laid-back skaters or surfers with our loose T-shirts and long shorts, long hair, and very light luggage. I was one step up from carrying my clothes in a paper grocery sack. We weren't high-maintenance. I didn't even own any makeup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking back on it, through the eyes of the airport staff, we didn't look like typical lady travelers heading anywhere overnight, let alone ladies heading across the country for nearly a week. We probably looked very, very odd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We dutifully placed our carry-on luggage on the X-ray conveyor belt, and quickly went to the other end to collect them. I was more than a little wide-eyed, no doubt, since so much money was riding on that bumpy conveyor and about to bang at the end of the metal slide. The X-ray tech stopped the conveyor, and I can't even remember how many airport staff entered the scene at this point. It may have just been the one tech, it may have been five people surrounding us. All I remember is the next few minutes were the most horrifying ceramics-related moments of my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were told to immediately open the hard-side carry-on. I told them it had fragile ceramic horses, is there some place I can lay them down while I unwrap them? They were mummified with toilet paper, as there was no room for our stiff 1996 custom foam inserts in luggage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, do it right here, completely unwrap the items. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, did you say, "ceramic horses"? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>*** Reader, I will give you a moment.***</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To my credit, I did not have a nervous breakdown right there in the airport X-ray line. I felt like every bit of me was shaking with a spicy blend of financial-ruin-horror and anger. I had never had a brush with the law. I was always a good kid, always followed rules, worked at a stable, Honors classes, and perpetual A+ in Citizenship. The worst thing I did in high school: I painted the musical Phantom of the Opera poster on a friend's mortarboard, and a zebra on my own, to innocently celebrate graduation. No one had ever said we couldn't decorate them, and since we paid for them, we mistakenly thought they were our own to do with as we pleased. My high school saw this as threatening self-expression and a gateway to gang insignia. Yeah. Andrew Lloyd Webber always be gangbangin'. I was threatened with my diploma being withheld because of Art. (This, sadly, is not a joke.) I was never an actual troublemaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, this whole scene was completely foreign to me. I was being singled out by authority for my perfectly innocuous, hand-made horses, and being told I will not be able to pay for the very trip I'm embarking on because the X-ray tech wants to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>break open my claybody customs</b></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joan and I were completely shocked and, of course, asking why, and <i>who</i> do they think they are?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another security dude comes over. They just asked us: "Are they hollow?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our answer of "yes" was apparently the wrong answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the concerned security people had roughly turned my horses over and over in their hands, and mumbled among themselves, they finally gave us part of their reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently, passengers had come through this airport with ceramic horses in their luggage. These hollow ceramic horses had been stuffed with drugs. The X-ray techs now have to break open any and all horses that they see on the screen, and check them for drugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joan pointed out the tiny 1/16" stilt holes in their bellies, asking incredulously, "How could anyone put drugs in those holes?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How we must have looked to the security staff: shady, shorts-wearing skaters, with way too little luggage to look like legit out-of-state travelers. Backpack. No makeup. An adult woman and a 15-year-old, whose driver's license "says" she's twenty. And the kid looks like she's about to lose her mind, watching every movement of the horses with crazy eyes, and quivering. She's wearing a very weird hat, looks like a drug thing. And they both are questioning the routine destruction of some cheap, crappy knickknacks! Suspicious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have since had three-hour layovers in other airports, layovers that become frantic gate changes across the entire airport complex. I've had indirect cross-country flight schedules where I was awake for 24 hours straight. None of those experiences took as long as those minutes at the luggage X-ray. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At last, the security staff decided that, indeed, there was no place on the horses' bellies to fit a plug for drug installation. The stilt holes were truly too small to stuff baggies of anything, and they certainly weren't plugged, nor dusting out coke like over-sized salt shakers. When we explained again that they weren't cheap tourist ceramics, that we made them by hand, and then quoted their value, the staff looked at each other. They handed them back, not without suspicious glances, and we were stuck TP-mummifying irreplaceable ceramics in a busy airport, with no soft or uncrowded place to wrap them. Strangers. Elbows. Jostling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every collector knows how horrid it feels to rush to pack a china, let alone under emotional duress, and with a now-impending flight departure. That was bad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the mad re-packing, these custom ceramics survived the security inspection and the flight, and were sold at BreyerFest. They remain in collector hands, to this day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The art of claybody customizing has changed so vividly in the past 18 years, it may seem odd that so much stress and value was rolled up in these two early pieces. But, at the time, for the time, a claybody custom was cutting edge and almost impossible to attain. All the claybody customs Joan & I had made by that time could be counted on one hand. They showed in Artist Resins divisions, if you ever even saw one. I can't even think of a good analogy for something like that phenomenon, today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This ceramic airport experience is why I am so mellow about layering my ceramics in plastic bins to go to shows. It's why I seem pretty unconcerned about the whole process of exhibiting, selling, and shipping. Nothing can be worse than having persons in authority tell you they are going to bust open the bodies of your artwork right in front of you, because they suspect you of a federal crime. If the post office breaks your horse, at least you don't have to witness it and simultaneously be <i>excruciatingly aware</i> of some ludicrous excuse for the destruction. This will never happen at a model horse show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Too bad the molds weren't long-ears. Drug mules. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-70507463167366264912014-07-28T21:44:00.001-07:002014-07-29T20:43:13.766-07:00The Mane of Sun Cortez<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post does not reflect the opinions of Hagen-Renaker nor its employees. The following is my opinion and my interpretation of the submitted examples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This disclaimer is necessary because the established stance is, HR's DW molds were never altered between Monrovia and San Dimas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mold retooling that took place in the early 1980's for San Marcos is both acknowledged by collectors and by Jim Renaker, according to Nancy Kelly*.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collectors are less likely to see the middle-era mold variant, because the San Dimas mold version is so rare. The main side-by-side comparison in this post is between Monrovia and San Marcos. Further on, the San Dimas will be shown. You read that correctly, I interpret three separate mold versions of Sun Cortez.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Marcos Cortez molds -King, Sun, and Don- in White (glossy and matte) are also interesting because unlike the Arabian family and DW Head-Up and -Down Ponies, their gray shading is like the old underglaze gray of the previous eras. Other than the Cortez trio, other San Marcos molds in white have a dark, cold tone to their gray shading, in both matte and gloss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photo above, with Sun and Don in parade sets, indicated that the tack was made around 1960. My research has shown that some parts of King's set existed as far back as 1947, the date of the photo of him shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">King Cortez seems to be a bit older than Sun and Don, as he is in promotional photos in a simpler, earlier version of his famous Bohlin parade set that dates to 1947. The post-1960 group photo shows King with a grown-out mane. In the references below, you can view a link to a King Cortez publicity photo dated to 1949. He was a famous parade horse, hence the multiple photos of him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three Cortez stallions premiered in Fall 1957 as HR Designer's Workshop models. The palomino matte of Monrovia and San Dimas is, obviously, the portrait color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gratitude to Jayne Kubas for her help with the side-by-side photo shoot, and to everyone who sent photos: Ed Alcorn, Nancy Falzone, Marcia Miner, Cindy Neuhaus, Sue Thiessen, and Janis Whitcomb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Kelly, Nancy. Pers. comm. 5/5/2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://circusnospin.blogspot.com/2008/06/specht-family-well-known-pasadena.html</span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758885837326371.post-16941185019613365012014-07-21T18:54:00.001-07:002014-07-21T18:54:18.373-07:00Muddy Monday: Collector Stories, Volume One<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Some of the best stories collectors tell are about amazing finds in small towns, coincidences, and random help from strangers. Being at BreyerFest reminded me of this, as I heard stories shared between china collectors. These were submitted by collectors online.</span></span><br />
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Fairbury was about an hour away, but the listing had mentioned a few horses for sale so we decided to go check it out together. The auction building was small and full of stuff, and as we looked at the sales tables, there was a small box of HRs, mostly broken.</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_24" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_26" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_28" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I brought home my stickered, beautifully shaded Sherif after paying $4. He had a clean and glued leg break, but I had that restored. Now he takes place of pride in my china hutch.</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_31" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_33" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_35" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I still marvel that tiny Fairbury harbored HRs! </span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_38" style="background-color: white;" /><br /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_40" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_43" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_45" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">From Tiffany Tran:</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_48" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_50" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">There is one horse in my collection, one of my most prized pieces, that I believe was destined to be mine.</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_53" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_55" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I've always admired and coveted Kathi Bocuki's Showman in bone china by Horsing Around. While HA did a lovely job with the original finish colors, I always wanted to have a custom glazed Showman in elegant dapple bay with chrome. Alas, I couldn't afford to commission one from HA, so he remained a clinky dream. </span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_58" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_60" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">One day last year, after a day of errands, I logged online to check MH$P (as we all do) and noticed excitedly that someone had listed my dream horse: a CG Showman in dapple bay with chrome; at a price I could afford. To my great dismay, he was marked as 'ON HOLD'. Disappointed, but determined, I sent an email to the seller, explaining to her that this horse was the incarnation of a personal clinky grail and begged her to please let me know if the sale didn't go through for any reason. Although she agreed to keep me informed, I personally had my doubts that the buyer would back out, because it was such a gorgeous piece for a reasonable price.</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_63" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_65" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Some time later, maybe a couple weeks, I received an email from the seller of the CG Showman. I held my breath as I opened the email. It turned out that the person who was going to buy the Showman had wanted to buy a few models from the seller, but could not afford all of them. As a result, the would-be buyer decided to back out on Showman. The seller asked if I was still interested in Showman...</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_68" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_70" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">HECK YES!</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_73" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_75" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Three months and several time payments later, I was thrilled and grateful to welcome Showman into my collection. He was stunning; everything I imagined and more. In my excitement, I posted his photo to Blab and told the story of how he came to live with me - and to my surprise the hobbyist who originally commissioned him from HA came forth, and told me the identity of the real life racehorse whose markings were reproduced on my Showman. </span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_78" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_80" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">But the story doesn't end there. One day, maybe a couple months after acquiring the CG Showman, I was going through my model horse photos that I'd saved on my computer over the years and stumbled across two grainy old photographs from a long-gone MH$P listing. They were of a CG Showman... a CG Showman in dapple bay with chrome, and very familiar indeed. It seems that years ago I had seen the very same CG Showman for sale on MH$P, and could not afford the asking price, but saved the photos as inspiration. Apparently he changed hands, possibly multiple times, since that first encounter until the time he was offered to me.</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_83" style="background-color: white;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_85" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Somehow, my dream Showman found me at last. He will stay with me forever. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_103" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I'm basically an introvert but I summoned all of my courage and knocked on the lady's door. 'Lori told me you had horse figures. Do you mind if I see your horses?' and she let me in the house.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_109" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">EIGHT years later...I got a letter from another lady. Do you remember offering some money to a lady for a horse? The horse's owner was going into a nursing home and was ready to sell. I could not believe she had kept that piece of paper all that time. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br id="yui_3_16_0_12_1405956424096_112" style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Plus, I had just gone through 1-1/2 years of unemployment while going back to school. The unemployment ended 6 months before school did. I was dead broke by the time I graduated. Luckily, I was just starting my new job. If she had called any time sooner, I would not have had the money that I offered her because the Sespi was perfect.</span></span><br />
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<span class="yiv9272490747" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405989046795_12853">They had stories, these horses. Most of what I collect have stories. My Hadrian, aka "Haddock the Hadrian", was as a result of a scheme between Joanie, Lesli and Pam. Joanie had sent Pam a bisque by mistake. She told Pam to hold on to the bisque. My birthday was coming up so she asked Lesli if she could glaze it. Imagine my surprise when he showed up! All that is left of him is half a body and his nose. Lemonzilla was a piece I saw Lynn have at the very first Breakables in 2002. The following year when she was getting ready for BOYC so I asked if one of the horses she was selling was Lemonzilla. She was and I was so excited to get her. The Spinnaker I had just received from Addi not long before the tornado. I entered the lottery for him on the last day at the last hour - next day he was mine. Otto came to me after I lost out on Puzzle. He was my second favorite, and was thrilled that Lesli offered him to me. I loved the hand painting in his mane. The genie was such a great prize. She was my favorite of the original run of 20, and when she came up for sale again I was at the right place at the right time. I received her one month before my next show. I never got to show her - her name was Bagel. Two weeks before Ozark Mountain Live, an F-3/4 came through Caruthersville and crushed her & her friends. It crushed me too - now they look like ancient sculpture ruined by time and war. </span></div>
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Friends were so kind. They sent me shiny pretty ponies to ease the pain. The biggest surprise was genie's "twin". What made her twin unique was she was slightly altered from the original, but not by much, so you have to put her up against one of the run of 20 to see it. She was cast and glazed by Lynn herself to match the pattern of the original. It was so touching. I do have her for sale now, but if she never leaves I won't mind. But to rebuild a collection on a salary less than what I was making in Philadelphia has been tough. I was able to rebuild to the original quantity I have, but have never been able to grow it past what I had before. It's been frustrating, but there will always be shiny ponies, and I'll just trade and sell towards what I want my collection to be.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Photo courtesy Maggie Barkovitz.</span></div>
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Lemonzilla was sold to another collector, Corrie McDermott, who lovingly restored her and had a great show career with her. <span class="yiv9272490747" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405989046795_12893" style="font-size: 12pt;">Two years ago I was judging Stone Age Live and</span><span class="yiv9272490747" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405989046795_12890" style="font-size: 12pt;"> I had a chance to see Lemonzilla in person since selling her. I cried, and surprised myself on how much she still affected me. </span><span class="yiv9272490747" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405989046795_12887"> Last year Corrie was downsizing and contacted me about her. My birthday present from Dave was being reunited with Lemonzilla. I cried again - she was home.</span></div>
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You would think that a storm like that would have me shy away from collecting custom glaze china - not on your life. I love the medium, always have. Of course, they now reside in the tornado closet, aka the earthquake closet. I live on the New Madrid fault line...we've had tremors...why did I think moving to Missouri was a good idea again?</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Some of my own stories have been shared on this blog. When you collect for a while, you tend to also collect adventures and spooky stories. I was looking through my collection record for a fresh one, and found that they tend to fall in themes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A truly astonishing story deserved an entire blog post, the <a href="http://muddyhoofprints.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-celebration-of-collector-sharing.html" target="_blank">beautiful gift from Margo Potheau</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"The One That Got Away and Came Back"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In which a series of owners get the item from the very moment it was first made available, but through the help of one or more friends, it finds you, years later. The item is always a one-of-a-kind variation, or not an OF at all, which means the same identifiable piece can be traced throughout its course.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"If You Research It, It Will Come"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This never ceases to give me goosebumps. I will not say a word to anyone about a blog post draft I am researching online- digging through pedigrees, photos, files- but out of the blue, a rash of photos are mailed or emailed to me, or I am offered the exact item in trade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"The Run"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A rapid series of unrelated events brings three or more of the same subject to me, in a very short time frame, like 90 days or less. The run is doubly improbable because the subject is seldom a common mold.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I would love to share your ceramic model horse stories that fit or expand the above categories. I am not looking for stories of cheap bargains, rather special purchases that are meaningful for other reasons. These will be posted in Volume Two. Carry on, Collectors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>Kristina Lucas Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983943306067521376noreply@blogger.com0