Rarities ! The SUY for August 2014 !

Lan, that's a real rarity and one of those we know there is a lot of people searching for it. It is also a beautiful piece, unfortunately there were no wolves in that series.

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Every collector,
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WOW !!! Yes !! THAT is a rarity
And very beautyful also

Please may we use your photo in TAI
As you see we still need photos of most of the WWF-models

Sorry, Susanna, I only hope to show it in stsforum and do not want to post in TAI

Marx endangered animals

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ABYSSINIAN (Walia) IBEX, MOUNTAIN GORILLA, ARABIAN ORYX, SNOW LEOPARD, ASIATIC CHEETAH, MOUNTAIN ZEBRA, GIANT OTTER, ATLANTIC WALRUS, JUAN FERNANDEZ FUR SEAL, RING-TAILED WALLABY.

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I've just been through my herd's details and tracked down the rarest runs of all. Ignoring the one-of-a-kind Julip horses, otherwise I'd be here all day
I do have quite a few Breyerfest models which exist in the low thousands (including the coveted original Alborozo), some limited editions which run to the low hundreds, and a few more Peter Stones in only double figures, but decided to be really strict, and show only the rarest.

So here are the models from the runs of thirty or less!

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Harecroft Sir Percival - 30 made, factory custom mane & head-turn, part of a matched driving pair with....

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Harecroft Sir Galahad - 30 made, factory custom mane & head-tuck

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Harecroft King Arthur - 15 made, UK special run

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Harecroft Guillemot - 15 made, factory custom mane

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Harecroft Dustbowl Dance - 13 made, factory custom made & tail

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Harecroft Miss Toby - 10 made, judge's variation

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Harecroft Hartley - 9 made - the rarest run in my whole collection!

Wow- I love this topic, it has been a joy to scroll through 9 pages of the most beautiful rarities, including that amazing Schleich brown and white St, Bernard!
And those two special Mojo models that Roger owns- wow, they really are special! And the Neapolitan Mastiff by Deseo, such a beauty!
Thank you very much for bringing back this topic George, your rarities are stunning! How amazing that you have so many of these special runs, including the one with only 9 made! I know that these can reach such high prices- was it easy finding them? And on the subject of Breyers, do you know what the rarest Breyer horse of all time is?

The 9-made was actually just a chance find brand new from the Peter Stone website - for some reason he was a really good reduced price, so I bought him before anyone else did! This was back in the early to mid 2000s when the Dollar-to-Pound exchange rate was great, so we got more for our money over here, and he ended up costing not much more than a regular run Breyer of the same size would be now.
A couple of the others were direct from the Stone online shop, too, always on deal prices which made them affordable compared to regular runs.
I stopped buying from the US when the exchange rate died and customs fees went crazy (around £20 for every single parcel, rather than the risk of about £12 for maybe one in ten of them and the rest escaping with nothing to pay!)

There can't be any one rarest Breyer, because they make one-of-a-kind models for auctions and prizes, so there's an awful lot out there with a run of one, and nothing can beat that

George wrote:

The 9-made was actually just a chance find brand new from the Peter Stone website - for some reason he was a really good reduced price, so I bought him before anyone else did! This was back in the early to mid 2000s when the Dollar-to-Pound exchange rate was great, so we got more for our money over here, and he ended up costing not much more than a regular run Breyer of the same size would be now.
A couple of the others were direct from the Stone online shop, too, always on deal prices which made them affordable compared to regular runs.
I stopped buying from the US when the exchange rate died and customs fees went crazy (around £20 for every single parcel, rather than the risk of about £12 for maybe one in ten of them and the rest escaping with nothing to pay!)

There can't be any one rarest Breyer, because they make one-of-a-kind models for auctions and prizes, so there's an awful lot out there with a run of one, and nothing can beat that

Wow, this is so interesting, I'm sure there are many treasures!
Amazing that you found these beauties while you could, they're so special!

They are not only rarities, they are models of a supreme beautiness!

Those are some really impressive numbers there [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] - are they all Stone? I don't recognize the molds, but that doesn't mean anything these days. Really beautiful models on top of being so incredibly rare! Impressive to have so many of such limited runs!

Also wow, Alborozo. I didn't know he existed until I saw one sell for $900 and I was like . . . excuse? Me? What a neat thing to have in your collection, and what a crazy drama within the hobby.

This whole thread is interesting. Always neat to see what the rarities are in a hobby!

Yes, they're all Peter Stone models. The moulds are, from the top - Trotting Drafter, Pony, Pebbles Arabian (she's smaller than the others, falling about halfway between Classic and Little Bits scale), Weanling, and Standing Drafter :)

The money Alborozos go for does amuse me, I mean he's nice, but THAT nice? I suppose it's mostly the collectability and rarity which makes him so desirable - people want one so they've got one, rather than reasoning that they could get a whole lot of other models for the same price
I got mine cos a friend who moved to Kentucky went to Breyerfest with her husband, who doesn't collect, so she had a spare Alborozo and we did a swap - I bought a Julip at their yearly live show over here, and posted him to her. So he cost me about £45, and it's weird to think he's worth twenty times that now

I heard it is rare

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Indeed

Looks like a close relative of elephants Great catch though.

A bit, more than a bit, weird but probably the first Echidnae toy ever

Congrats on a rare item! But is it really an Echidna?!

Yes it is an odd weird echidna. It was produced in 1980, it is rare because the Starlux production and sales dropped in the 80’s

Thank you for the extra information, Christophe!
It's a funny design, I was wondering why they didn't sculpt any spikes. But maybe there weren't enough good photographs of this animal available for the sculptors at that time.

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A bit, more than a bit, weird but probably the first Echidnae toy ever

For sure the first long beaked echidna

Nice Andreas, now we all know why Starlux closed its doors.

Wow, beautiful model and must be so rare!

Many thanks Roger and Bonnie