News in Susanne's collection 2017. Update December 22nd : Cats, dog, foxes and horses :-)

Fallon, good to see you back

Ohh, yes !!! I LOVE the kitties and the fox from you SO much

Fantastic newcomers Susanne! The sliding stop set from schleich looks great in these colours, i think! The mice are adorable and, of course, Southland Replicas animals are absolutely amazing! Big congrats!

Wow, that`s amazing and wonderful, big band of newcomers
Every one of them is so different and interesting.
I like all of them !
Hurray for Alexander, Beatrice and Jonas :)
And Hurray for you, that you bought very nice models for your self
Congratulations my friend

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And Hurray for you, that you bought very nice models for your self
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Congratulations! Alexanders repaint is amazing. It is a totally different model with new colours and without the heap of sand covering the horse's hind legs.
All the other models are beautiful presented: Jonas' horses, the black old Bullyland cat, the unicorn foal and the ice-cat (I don't think they are silly ), the seals, all the mice, the forest babies, the mountain animals, and at last the jewels: the Southland Replicas. They are beautiful.
I have just bought the Schleich box sets myself. I think I will keep them in their boxes, it is easy to take them out and put them back in the boxes again. I have not enough space to display them all the time and they are well protected in their boxes.
Thanks for beautiful pictures.

SUSANNE wrote:

Thankyou, friends

Roger wrote:

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The Safari TOOB is this one... ... anything strange on it?
Those are TOOB horse breeds according with Safari.
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Ohh, yes, thankyou. Only this one is painted appaloosa . It is not a repaint
So that means there must be an olde variation of this toob, with much nicer painted models ?

I don't know for sure but it may be possible, otherwise, I don't know why do they call it an appaloosa.

Susanne, thank you so much for sharing. I am disappointed for the paint job of the Papo new seal, I'll reconsider of buying it.

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Susanne, thank you so much for sharing. I am disappointed for the paint job of the Papo new seal, I'll reconsider of buying it.

Ohh, do you think so ? I think it is wonderful, - one of the best I have seen

What a wonderfull new additions ... Great great great.
CONGRATZ

Today I got a wonderful, long awaited parcel from LeeAnn

The great Tax-Monster helt it back, wanting 50 USD in import duty
No matter how much I love them, I think that was rediculous, but fortunately at last they gave up, and I got my parcel

I am SO happy  
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This foal may look very strange, but it is actually one of the mega-rare , first horse models from Safari  
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It is not long ago that I/we discovered that the mare here was NOT the attempt of a 4-year-old to repaint the old Saddleback,
but I never heard that there was a foal also    
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We do not know when they were made, but the other appaloosa family was made from 1994 - 1998 :
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The above shown stallion does not fit in , but I really think and hope there must be one that fits somewhere over in USA
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Here are the old Saddlebreds with the colour variated foals from LeeAnn.
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And LeeAnn also included the most lovely little Breyer Stablemate foal  
It is a G1-model ( Does it mean "Generation 1" ?), and they are not made anymore !  
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Perfect little sculpture, isn't it ?
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Thankyou, thankyou VERY much, dear LeeAnn

And should anybody ever see or get that old appaloosa stallion, I would be delighted to see a picture, and hope you would sell it, perhaps

I'm glad I could help out a good friend like you

Yes, G1 is Generation 1. They are the first Breyer SMs ever made, and unfortunately Breyer no longer has the rights to produce those molds, they lost them to Hagen-Renaker.

Congratulations Susanne and hurray for LeeAnn :)

There's always the good and the bad side in a good story. LeeAnn is obviously the good side while the Tax-Monster is the bad side. A kind of the Beauty and the Monster of toy collecting.
The Farm horses collection from Safari turned in an incredible adventure, once we never thought it could be such rich.
I believe these horse variations are those we can see on 1996 catalogue in the Farm display with figures that was exclusively sold in USA and not directly to collectors. There's a complete family, with a stallion as you can see in picture below.
If these horses were exclusively sold in that dispplay, they may be really rare. :)
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What a precious picture, Roger

And now we alo know that the palomino is a single mother , - and that the Saddleback stallion IS darker than his family

SUSANNE wrote:

What a precious picture, Roger

And now we alo know that the palomino is a single mother , - and that the Saddleback stallion IS darker than his family

Horses on display are not exactly the same versions that we can see in the same catalogue when they're presented as individual figures. That's the reason why I think that those were exclusively sold with the display. I hope you can find the stallion.
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1996 Safari Ltd catalogue

I always get so happy when families get completed

Bluugh, the taxes are horrible! Luckily they gave up

That small lying foal is adorable <3

Ooh so there is a stallion! What a wonderful piece of Safari history Maybe someday I can find the stallion for you too Susanne!

WOW !!! What catalogue is that you have there ?
And notice that the "Unusual" appy-foal is the same mould as that of the saddleback, while the other appy-foal is less heavy ( Newer ?)

NightLioness wrote:

I always get so happy when families get completed
Bluugh, the taxes are horrible! Luckily they gave up
That small lying foal is adorable <3

Thankyou

Yes !

Yes !

LeeAnn wrote:

.......Maybe someday I can find the stallion for you too Susanne!

Ohhhh ! That would be awesome

SUSANNE wrote:

WOW !!! What catalogue is that you have there ?
And notice that the "Unusual" appy-foal is the same mould as that of the saddleback, while the other appy-foal is less heavy ( Newer ?)

Well, the Appy foal question is not so easy. Take note of it once you may miss another figure.
Using 1994 and 1995 catalogues as reference, we will see that the regular Appaloosa foal pictured uses the same mould than the Saddlebred foal. 1996 and 1997 catalogues show a different Appaloosa foal (the one from your collection), while the Saddlebred foal is still the same. So, the "older" foal mould was used as a Saddlebred, a regular Appaloosa and as Appaloosa variation from the display. The "newer" mould is only presented for the first time in 1996 catalogue replacing the previous standard Appy foal. However, it is not presented as a new product.
I don't have these catalogues, unfortunately. Only a few scanned pages related with the Farm series. I'll send them to you, I thought I had sent them before. Here you can see the regular Appy foal in the same mould as the Saddlebred on 1995 catalogue.
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Ahhh! Yes !!! That page is also in my catalogue from 1994 !

I never really noticed the foals, - didn't look for it before now

Safari can still surprise us !
Perhaps some day somebody dind the first Vanishing Wild gorilla, Orangutan, and Wolf families from the 1990-catalogue

I wonder if perhaps the appy foal from the display, that you now have, is a test/prototype that either never made it to production or very few were ever made? I see this happening a lot in Breyer catalogs, the photo shows a test model that was never produced, but the actual set has something completely different. For example, the Stablemates play mat from 2007. It was originally produced with this cantering WB, a new mold at the time.
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Something happened to the mold at the factory and shortly after its release the cantering WB was replaced by this G2 WB in a similar colorway. Very few of the first WB actually made it into production, though unfortunately no one knows exactly how many. I was fortunate enough to find the rare version in a dusty old corner of a toy store
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Sorry to get off topic... I find these kinds of things intriguing. I always wonder, does anyone actually own the model in the catalog or is it a one of a kind destined to remain in the archive room forever?

LeeAnn's point is very interesting and how lucky LeeAnn found such a rare piece.
Maybe the versions of the Appaloosas were only prototypes or painting tests that they used only in these displays. Surely a complete production run was not needed once I doubt they sold these displays massively. Though, the moulds are all known, Susanne have all these moulds once they are the same as the saddlebred horses. So, these moulds entered the regular production, not exactly these painting variations. I think that we now have to find if the first Appaloosa version painting do really exist. The mould does but the painting in that mould is not known yet.
Now I have another question to Susanne, could you please check which year is marked in this foal?

Roger wrote:

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Now I have another question to Susanne, could you please check which year is marked in this foal?

Both kinds of foal are marked 1993

Great newcomers, Susanne!

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Roger wrote:

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Now I have another question to Susanne, could you please check which year is marked in this foal?

Both kinds of foal are marked 1993

Thanks! It reduces the chances of the existence of the Appaloosa foal we can see on 1994 catalogue. But not completely once at least one was used to take the catalogue picture.