Jill's (growing) Collection [update 11.4.24]

I don't feel like I have quite the basic groundwork to qualify for a Collection thread yet, since most of what I do have is in storage and I don't have pictures, but what I DO have is a lot of stuff coming in the mail, and that's fun to share! My family doesn't get as excited as I do, haha. So, maybe jumping the gun a bit, but I decided to start one anyway.

Here's some pictures, at least, of what IS on display! I rent an attic space from my parents, which is very nice, but as you might expect, super tiny wall space. I'm working toward getting a bigger place in the next couple of years, so hopefully someday I'll be able to take photos of everything. :)

My Breyer collection is heavily 90's because that's when I was buying them new, but I also love anything earlier. I have a few smatterings of newer horses as well, but heavily "vintage" oriented. I absolutely love a classicly vintage model with some wear and history to it (though I love a good mint one, too, haha).

My book/Breyer shelf, featuring some favorites:
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These guys don't fit on my Stablemate shelves (the 70th anniversary get to be out along with the G1s because they are vintage-flavored. )
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I don't love Breyer unicorns, except the Little Bits one, but I DO love unicorn lore, in general, so I ended up with a few. I actually really wish Mira and Anteres didn't have horns at all, I just love those molds and that color. Poor Mira's horn is snapped, too.
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And my Funrise are sharing space with the Breyers for now!
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Here's the all-Breyer shelf, featuring a few more favorites:
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And the G1 stablemate wall behind my computer, so they are always watching me while I am posting, judging. (Also featuring a hand-crafted tiger from Tangkuban Peragu in Indonesia):
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In an attempt to find my przewalski for a reference photo (found him), I located all my Schliech, which for only being eight animals were spread across at least four boxes:
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They're currently living with everything that was in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], none of which has anywhere to go right now.

And last but not least, by box of tiny animals I've been posting about over on the Club Earth board, waiting for me to find them a display case!  
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More undoubtably to come!

This is great, I do love a good nosey at other people's horses and how they're displayed! My favourites are the G1 collection, the Schleich takhi, and Llanarth True Briton - I've got the Danaway Tango release on that mould and it's my absolute favourite from that middle-ish era of moulds, somewhere between vintage and modern. 'Retro', maybe!

Also great to find someone else who agrees with my unpopular take on unicorns - more models of 'real' historical ones, rather than pastel rainbow glitter ones, please!
I wrote almost an essay on it here, hahah

Great horse collection! I love the G1s too, you have a lot of them!

Beautiful horse collection and pretty cool place. I always wanted to have an attic like this to isolate my collecting hobbies from "the world" but it never happened.
Really nice!

Thank you guys!

George wrote:

This is great, I do love a good nosey at other people's horses and how they're displayed! My favourites are the G1 collection, the Schleich takhi, and Llanarth True Briton - I've got the Danaway Tango release on that mould and it's my absolute favourite from that middle-ish era of moulds, somewhere between vintage and modern. 'Retro', maybe!

Retro is a better word for most of collection, I think! Poor Tubby, his mold gets made so much fun of, but I just love him. I remember when the catalouge came out introducing his mold, and he had a full page spread on a mirrored stage, and I was just in love. I got him for Christmas that year and took him to the candlelight service at church.  

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Also great to find someone else who agrees with my unpopular take on unicorns - more models of 'real' historical ones, rather than pastel rainbow glitter ones, please!
I wrote almost an essay on it here, hahah

Nice!! What a beautiful custom! Yes, I have strong opinions about unicorns! I'd love to see some brand edgy enough to create a series of unicorns from history - the karkadan, the qi'lin, the little tiny goat with a lion tail and a gigantic horn . . .  And the idea of adapting the unicorn into a real animal like you've done has always appealed. Either your take, where it's legitimately horse-ish, or something else altogether different, a species unto itself. The Modern Unicorn has its own place in the lore, but it's not my favorite place. The most recent Breyer Wal-Mart one got me the most - something about it being a gaited horse (on top of the rainbows) is the opposite energy of the mysterious and exotic wild unicorn concept. Like you said, it's all to taste and I know many people just love him, so I'm glad he has an audience. (This sounds very hypocritical coming from someone whose largest collection is My Little Pony, but I don't consider those unicorns, per say. )

rogerpgvg wrote:

Great horse collection! I love the G1s too, you have a lot of them!

Thank you! I just switched my Breyer focus to vintage stablemates in the recent past, so I buckled down and expanded their numbers by quite a bit.

spacelab wrote:

Beautiful horse collection and pretty cool place. I always wanted to have an attic like this to isolate my collecting hobbies from "the world" but it never happened.
Really nice!

Thanks! It really would be an awesome "collection" space, if I did not also have to live in it with everything I own.

I remember big hobby drama over the over-flexed fetlock, and how some judges refused to place the Llanarth mould because of it, while other people spent hours finding photos of real horses with their fetlocks touching the grass to prove it's possible in an action pose. Now we have the Copperfox welsh cob, all the placings tend to be him, him, and more him, and no-one dusts off their Breyer ones for the show ring any more

The more goat-ish bearded and cloved hoofed unicorn was another consideration, and would've been interesting and in-keeping with my aim of 'factual unicorn people could've believed in', but I don't really like resculpting so I just went for horse seeing as the body was horse-shaped already, hah. Considering Schleich make So Many Unicorns these days, it'd be cool if they decided to do a less equine one for one of their fantasy ranges (as long as they left off the bright colours and the sparkle - pffff, I just imagined a medieval monk trying to glue glitter onto an illuminated manuscript illustration to match our modern pop-culture unicorns )

Your collection is beautiful- what a stunning selection of Breyers and how wonderful to be surrounded by horses! I love how they are all over your books, and there are always more to spot hidden between them- my dogs are exactly the same at the moment, sharing the bookshelf with the books! And all around your computer too, it must be so nice to look up and see a whole variety of poses and colours!

Wow, rare figures

Great collection of Breyers.

Thank you everyone!

George wrote:

pffff, I just imagined a medieval monk trying to glue glitter onto an illuminated manuscript illustration to match our modern pop-culture unicorns   )

I think these expressions sum it up:
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I really do like the break up of space with the books and the horses! In my dream home, they are scattered throughout the place, in nooks and crannies and what not. But I have too many, really, to do that - I'd have to have an enormous house.

Very interesting photos of your animals, with great treasures......especially the Breyers models.

Your breyer displays and everything are really beautiful, clean and crisp and professional looking. You have some great Schleich and I can't wait to see more! The rare club earth extinct animals...

It seems you are a horses lover!

I enjoy seeing your Funrise together with your more reputated Breyer. You really love these little Funrise and they surely deserve it. I also like the G1 models although I am not that used with Stablemates to make a full judgement.
I see my request for comparison pictures served to reveal your Schleich, i even see a horse that looks like an okapi.

Thanks all!

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

The rare club earth extinct animals...

They were a very unexpected and incredible gift!

Caracal wrote:

It seems you are a horses lover!

My collection may lean a particular way, yes!

Roger wrote:

I see my request for comparison pictures served to reveal your Schleich, i even see a horse that looks like an okapi.

Don't tell any of them, they still haven't noticed the artiodactyla in their midst.

A few new things! Thanks to pipsxlch (for several of these and many others that didn't fit into the photo!)

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And the creatures I picked up the from the antique store just today, thanks to identification from here.

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Great new additions! The dark wolf/dog and gray/yellow/green guy next to it, do you know what they are? The latter looks a bit like the Nayab wolverine but in a different color.

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

Great new additions! The dark wolf/dog and gray/yellow/green guy next to it, do you know what they are? The latter looks a bit like the Nayab wolverine but in a different color.

Thank you! I think (?) it's a bear with a dog like face. It's marked with an I (there's at least one more animal in the box I think with a letter on it that seems to go with him), and the green and gray weasel thing just has China. I looked up the Nayab, not quite the same mold, this one is not an animal shape I can immediately identify, ha! So both I presume are knock-offs.

Those weird geometric animals have a cool mid century vibe, very interesting!

I have a celluloid dog; are you going into celluloid?

They do, they are very weird and old and lovely, which, if anything, seems to be my collecting aesthetic.

I am not sure about going into, since I only just learned about them today after falling in love with these, but I have been looking at them on ebay and they are really delightful. (And expensive.) I don't know that my collection will ever know which way it is headed, but I do have a great affection for that distinctly vintage "look". I would love to get more of them someday, but I feel like I should have a china cabinet to exhibit them in!

Many great new additions! Are you studying Geometry or is it Ergonomics? Some figures are designed to fit in an egg, others to fit in a rectangle and some to fit in our collections.

A woman of taste who has Tolkien on her shelf (and I'm sure he's very happy to be next to his buddy Lewis)

Very nice and rare catches. I really like the old stuff

Thank you all!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] no geometry here, I am far too terrible at math - must be an ergonomic collection then, because I love being comfortable. I won't confine my collecting too strictly, at least not after I get a little more room!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] One of the best! (Two of the best, really - that shelf is my Top Tier favorites. )

I admit I moved out all my books to empty two bookcases for model horse space instead. Then got another *counts on fingers* nine model bookcases as well The only non-model-collectiony thing left IN the bedroom is the bed, and a chair I stand on to reach the highest shelves