Jill's (growing) Collection [update 3.31.24]

So many outstanding finds  !!!  

Among all these beautyful, rare, charming and fascinating models, ONE stands out for me though 

Ohhhhh, so beautyful    

Jill wrote:

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I think that is the best Afghan model I have ever seen , even if the paintwork is a bit "artistic"

Beautiful additions again

Jill wrote:

Added a few more Play Visions as well! Missed a wolverine by a nose, but did get a ferret. I did not expect the snakes to be this big, honestly! I have one from the regional sets, a bo constrictor, and it is so much smaller than these. I don't know how they will display in my tiny little plastic shelves, haha.
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so many wonderful additions!

I think this little handsome ferret is my favourite though

Great additions,and the Afghan hound is fab as are the Funrise cats!!

Very beautiful snakes and ferret!

Thank you everyone!! Now we are building shelves for my Funrise animals since they are too large to share space with the little guys.    

rogerpgvg wrote:

Lots of very interesting additions. The Safari Authentics have real character. Yes, they look a bit deranged, but that makes them so special.

Absolutely, haha! I have close ups of some of their faces saved on my desktop.

Roger wrote:

Surely it is good you witnessed that era as a kid. It doesn't mean it is not good anymore, kids just have different tastes.

That is probably a good way to put it. It's a good thing I was a kid when the toys that appeal to me were popular.  

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I mean those small series with a limited number of releases.

That's a succinct way to describe my collection, and very accurate. Small completable sets!

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I think that is the best Afghan model I have ever seen , even if the paintwork is a bit "artistic"

I agree, I have seen it before but didn't get it and this time I just finally had to. Definitely my favorite that I have seen!

Really wonderful new additions, perfect for the birthday month!
And I really love the Kid Core Afghan, wow! Kid Core dogs are among my favourites, it is such a shame that they are so hard to find now- interestingly the Afghan and the Dalmatian seem to be the models I have seen the most from this brand, maybe because they sold the most- but I can see why, it's beautiful! I love their collie families, and really hope to find them some day!
I just scrolled back and saw the Panini dogs too!!! That is an amazing find, I don't think I have ever seen them up for sale! I could write a paragraph on each one, s sweet and full of character and the breed choices are wonderful too- but with exams on the horizon I'll just say that they really are such wonderful finds!

Bonnie wrote:

And I really love the Kid Core Afghan, wow! Kid Core dogs are among my favourites, it is such a shame that they are so hard to find now- interestingly the Afghan and the Dalmatian seem to be the models I have seen the most from this brand, maybe because they sold the most- but I can see why, it's beautiful!

I agree, I have seen them the most, too! There is a scottie and some labs on ebay right now as well.

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but with exams on the horizon I'll just say that they really are such wonderful finds!

Oh best of luck!! Sounds like you're in the middle of a lot of work. I'm sure you'll do wonderfully.

Your comment has reminded me that I forgot a very important March additions - my teeny tiny celluloid dogs! The tiniest I have found yet!

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Here they are with some tube-sized friends for comparison.

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Cat and mouse or cat and dog??

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Your tube sized friends now have pets.
Mouse, that's a barking mouse.

I like this old stuff

Thank you so much!
And wow, such delightful teeny tiny celluloid dogs!   They look minuscule next to the small tube dogs so I can only imagine how small they must be in real life! But still completely wonderful and recognisable as their respective breeds!

Thank you all!

Roger wrote:

Mouse, that's a barking mouse.

That must be why the cat looks so concerned.

Bonnie wrote:

Thank you so much!
And wow, such delightful teeny tiny celluloid dogs!   They look minuscule next to the small tube dogs so I can only imagine how small they must be in real life! But still completely wonderful and recognisable as their respective breeds!

I live with a constant fear of them falling off the shelf and I never see them again. I almost vacuumed one of my other tiny ones up one time because it fell and blended with the carpet.

Yess, exactly that! Those tiny models can be like dominos!

A mid-month update, because I've been working on shelving space after getting a large lot of Yowies from Paige, and I got all of them sorted into their series and up on display! Not all of them here came from her, but a whole lot of them did!

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So neat displays for series that are clearly your wave. Very good work shelving them.

I absolutely adore those small acrylic shelves, they are PERFECT for yowies I bet they would work really well with Safari TOOB figures as well.

They all look so great together

Wonderful Yowie collection

Thank you all!

Joliezac wrote:

I absolutely adore those small acrylic shelves, they are PERFECT for yowies I bet they would work really well with Safari TOOB figures as well.

They all look so great together

They do! They work really well for pretty much all the tube sized animals (though some figures are too long to fit facing forward).

Very nice, you are right Jill, they are really beautiful when one is watching them all together 

Kikimalou wrote:

Very nice, you are right Jill, they are really beautiful when one is watching them all together 

Especially if you are very forgiving of scale and don't mind your whales and salamanders and bears all the same size.

I LOVE your displays! All those yowies look splendiforous in your photos.

Really nice, these smaller sizes can easily get obscured or cluttered when using normal bookcase or cabinet style shelving, cos whichever are behind will always be more difficult to see than the front row, so having these shallow close-to-the-wall shelves which fit figures just one row deep is perfect!

Wonderful displays!!!

I missed the pictures of the tiny doggies
They are wonderful

And those shelves !

I have some of them, but seing all of these together is like free hands in a candy-store

The USA yowies was something I did not see comming , and it irritates me green and yellow that shipping has become so expensive, and the Danish import customs have gone bananas

To me, scale means nothing at all !
I adore yowies, EIKOH, Toobs ( when the paintwork is ok ) and the hundreds of others like margrine-models etc