my collection: "The Flock"

Here are some overview pictures of my flock of sheep. I'm looking to get a good camera that can take close-ups of small thing, but in the meantime, these will have to do. You'll see a few horses and dogs in here, but mostly it's sheep.

Most of the Flock reside in this curio display cabinet in my living room. Right now, most of the plastic ones are on top, since the inside is full of the ceramics and chinas. I don't have photos of the left side b/c it was too dark in that corner.
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closer view of one end of the plastic flock: (On the shelf in the middle you can see the Wade Whimsy sheep. The horse is Hagen Renaker's Hackney Pony "Brookside Stella")
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Top right shelf in cabinet: Boehm, Cybis, Border Fine Arts, Hagen Renakers: I just notices that my cat is in the mirror at the back!
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Middle right shelf: Beswicks, Hagen Renakers, and 3 itsy bitsy plastic ones in the front:
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Bottom right shelf: not many on this shelf, but I think the big guy in the middle is impressive enough. He's the Border Fine Arts Blackfaced Tup:
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I'm very proud of my collection, so I'm thrilled to have such a nice group to share it with!

This is my mantle over my fireplace:

These are the Lladro Baby Girl Lamb and Baby Boy Lamb, a pair of Rosenthal Lambs, and Hagen Renaker Suffolk Ewe "Lady Jane" with a couple of HR "Son John" lambs:
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On the other end are the Royal Dalton/Beswick Swaledale Ram and Ewe, some of the Hartland farm set sheep, a Parian Staffordshire figure, and an early 20th C piece from Bavaria. The little black and white lamb behind Lady Jane is a Japan copy of Son John:
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the brown stuff you see under their feet is earthquake wax, to secure them to the mantle in case of shaking.

and oh my! do I ever need to dust that mantle!

thanks for letting me share!

What a wonderful and SO impressive collection of sheep

I just saw that you got another Safai-sheep and thought, perhaps Carolynn has pictures of her collection... and GOSH ! I was not disapointed, they are marvellous

Beautyful dogs and horses, too

It will be fun to follow how you get more sheep..and how lucky they live in flocks, so they can stand quite close

Thankyou for sharing

Wow Carolynne!! You have a beautiful collection
You have Rosenthal, I love porcelain figurines and Rosenthal is hard to get hold of.
Beswick, they have gorgeous figurines, I have a few of the horses. I wonder if Lomonosov/ussr make some sheep.
Oh and I love the border fine arts sheep, they are lovely - I have a couple of the china bulls from them. Haven't they stopped making china figurines now?

Seeing your Hagen Renaker sheep makes me want to collect them also

Yes Lomonosov/USSR has made a couple of lambs:
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and a sheep lying
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Aaaaw your lambs and sheeps are so beautiful!

Wonderful collection

A lot of sheeps!!!!!!!!! Very nice- Congratulation!!!

You have GDR sheeps?

That is my little herd.

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Wonderful and impressive collection! It was a nice choice, sheeps are beautiful and work prefectly together! But I think you will duplicate your collection very soon! Forum effect!
Let the scary Nayab join your flok and all of your sheeps will start running away!
Thanks for share it with us!

Wonderful collection! And welcome to the forum! :)

-Kristie

HKHollinstone wrote:

Wow Carolynne!! You have a beautiful collection
You have Rosenthal, I love porcelain figurines and Rosenthal is hard to get hold of.
Beswick, they have gorgeous figurines, I have a few of the horses. I wonder if Lomonosov/ussr make some sheep.
Oh and I love the border fine arts sheep, they are lovely - I have a couple of the china bulls from them. Haven't they stopped making china figurines now?

Seeing your Hagen Renaker sheep makes me want to collect them also

Yes, I was thrilled to get the Rosenthals. The two on my mantle are the top favorites of a friend of mine out of the whole collection. Of course, I'm not allowed to have favorites , but if I did, they'd be up there!
Funny, Beswick does sheep better than horses. Actually, I think they do everything better than horses! But their sheep are fantastic. Especially the Beswick Merino Ram. It is Magnificent, but alas for me, it is considered by many Beswick collectors to be the rarest and most sought after of all Beswick pieces, so I will probably never own one. They sell for over $2,000. Even if I could justify that kind of $ for a single piece, I'm not sure I'd want to pay that for something that would shatter, given that I live in earthquake country. It's stupid enough having as many ceramics as I do!
I loooove BFA! Not so much the ones that are made in China, but the classic pieces are wonderful. Fortunately, I only like the portrait pieces so I'm not tempted by the really expensive pieces, the diorama scenes. I'm happy to have all 5 of BFA's ceramic families, since BFA is one of the few companies that makes recognizable breeds. But why they chose to do Border Leicesters and Blue Faced Leicester, which look so similar, and give their Blackfaced family face markings almost identical to the Swaledale family?!?!?! I swear I have to look for the Swaledales' eyebrows to remember which family is which!
It appears BFA has stopped making china pieces (made out of china, as opposed to in China). Too bad because they are wonderful.

Unfortunately Hagen makes only one lamb in addition to the ewe and lamb from the Nativity set. But the retired pieces are regularly on Ebay. Except Lady Jane and Son John, of course. There's a pair on ebay now. I haven't decided if I'm going to bid, since I already have several of each.

You know, I have your country to thank for the greater part of my collection, the UK being sheep capital of the world. Thank you!

HKHollinstone wrote:

Yes Lomonosov/USSR has made a couple of lambs:
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and a sheep lying
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I love teh Lomonosov standing Lamb. The gray one seemed to be one of the only regularly produced ceramic sheep -by anyone- for a while, so it was one of the very first I got. Then they did the black face and one in all white. I have all three and the lying one too.

widukind wrote:

A lot of sheeps!!!!!!!!! Very nice- Congratulation!!!

You have GDR sheeps?

One of my lambs might from GDR geographically, but based on its styling, my guess is it was made before GDR was GDR. It's a beautiful piece (no photo yet) and is marked “Erphila Germany Est 1886”, but I know essentially nothing about “Erphila”. Wikipedia article about Bunzlau ceramic says “Erphila” was a mark used by an importer to the US, but since Bunzlau seems to have been made in Saxony and Bavaria, I just don’t know where it's from. I guess I'll have to do some research!

Many thanks to all of you! I love my collection and it's wonderful that others like it too!

Mastiffcat wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Wow Carolynne!! You have a beautiful collection
You have Rosenthal, I love porcelain figurines and Rosenthal is hard to get hold of.
Beswick, they have gorgeous figurines, I have a few of the horses. I wonder if Lomonosov/ussr make some sheep.
Oh and I love the border fine arts sheep, they are lovely - I have a couple of the china bulls from them. Haven't they stopped making china figurines now?

Seeing your Hagen Renaker sheep makes me want to collect them also

Yes, I was thrilled to get the Rosenthals. The two on my mantle are the top favorites of a friend of mine out of the whole collection. Of course, I'm not allowed to have favorites , but if I did, they'd be up there!
Funny, Beswick does sheep better than horses. Actually, I think they do everything better than horses! But their sheep are fantastic. Especially the Beswick Merino Ram. It is Magnificent, but alas for me, it is considered by many Beswick collectors to be the rarest and most sought after of all Beswick pieces, so I will probably never own one. They sell for over $2,000. Even if I could justify that kind of $ for a single piece, I'm not sure I'd want to pay that for something that would shatter, given that I live in earthquake country. It's stupid enough having as many ceramics as I do!
I loooove BFA! Not so much the ones that are made in China, but the classic pieces are wonderful. Fortunately, I only like the portrait pieces so I'm not tempted by the really expensive pieces, the diorama scenes. I'm happy to have all 5 of BFA's ceramic families, since BFA is one of the few companies that makes recognizable breeds. But why they chose to do Border Leicesters and Blue Faced Leicester, which look so similar, and give their Blackfaced family face markings almost identical to the Swaledale family?!?!?! I swear I have to look for the Swaledales' eyebrows to remember which family is which!
It appears BFA has stopped making china pieces (made out of china, as opposed to in China). Too bad because they are wonderful.

Unfortunately Hagen makes only one lamb in addition to the ewe and lamb from the Nativity set. But the retired pieces are regularly on Ebay. Except Lady Jane and Son John, of course. There's a pair on ebay now. I haven't decided if I'm going to bid, since I already have several of each.

You know, I have your country to thank for the greater part of my collection, the UK being sheep capital of the world. Thank you!

England used to make some beautiful ceramics, but it's sad that they've disappeared. Yes they've stopped making the Border fine arts porcelain figurines, I bought a couple of bulls in the sale.
I know!! Some of the Beswick go for incredible prices I'll keep an eye out for Merino Ram for you though, sometimes figurines pass un-noticed and some people spell Beswick wrong too, that's another thing to put into eBay search engine.

I've got this thing about porcelain bulls, the one I'd really like from Border Fine Arts is the charolais bull, but he seems to be really rare. Then there's Beswick, I would love to have the Lord Oxford Short horn bull, but that's just dreaming

Have you tried searching for sheep by "North Light"? I think they made some sheep, they're probably hard to get hold of now though, the company being gone. Also "Quail" they're figurines are gorgeous! Here's a link to their site [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] you can get their animals on eBay and I know a good site that sells them.
Some of the beswick horses are nice, but I agree alot of them aren't very good. I only collected the ones that I liked.

WOW! What a great collection!
I must say..."EWE" ROCK!

HKHollinstone wrote:

I've got this thing about porcelain bulls, the one I'd really like from Border Fine Arts is the charolais bull, but he seems to be really rare. Then there's Beswick, I would love to have the Lord Oxford Short horn bull, but that's just dreaming

Have you tried searching for sheep by "North Light"? I think they made some sheep, they're probably hard to get hold of now though, the company being gone. Also "Quail" they're figurines are gorgeous! Here's a link to their site [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] you can get their animals on eBay and I know a good site that sells them.

I'm with you on the Beswick Shorthorns - that pair is their best. The cow is to die for!
And don't get me started on the Doris Lindner cattle from Royal Worcester! Or anything by Doris Lindner.
A late friend of mine has what is probably the largest model horse collection in the world, including Beswicks and Royal Worcesters, including some of the Lindner bulls. Her collection is mind boggling. Unfortunately, she just passed away in May. We're still in shock. I just thank god we were able to visit her before she passed. okay, gonna cry now.

I believe I have all the North Lights sheep except the ram(s) they did in "art colors." Their sheep are very nice. Again, better than their horses, IMHO. They're very hard to find. My Suffolk Ewe broke a leg in an earthquake, and I've been hoping to replace her. But I should prob just get her repaired.

OMG! OMG! Quail does Herdwicks?!?!?! I'd forgotten about Quail. I have their salt and peppers of Southdowns and Wensleydales, I think the others are. Those lambs are awfully cute too!


What is the horse in your profile picture? It's very nice.

:) :)

fantastic collection

Lambs sheeps lambs ...........sheeps.................lambs


I think that you are the wolf hunting sheeps in markets............ha ..ha

sheeps are enjoys when arrive to your house .

Beautiful sculptures ..........very nice.

landrover wrote:

I think that you are the wolf hunting sheeps in markets............ha ..ha

no no! I'm a sheep doggie, rounding them up to keep them safe!

Mastiffcat wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

I've got this thing about porcelain bulls, the one I'd really like from Border Fine Arts is the charolais bull, but he seems to be really rare. Then there's Beswick, I would love to have the Lord Oxford Short horn bull, but that's just dreaming

Have you tried searching for sheep by "North Light"? I think they made some sheep, they're probably hard to get hold of now though, the company being gone. Also "Quail" they're figurines are gorgeous! Here's a link to their site [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] you can get their animals on eBay and I know a good site that sells them.

I'm with you on the Beswick Shorthorns - that pair is their best. The cow is to die for!
And don't get me started on the Doris Lindner cattle from Royal Worcester! Or anything by Doris Lindner.
A late friend of mine has what is probably the largest model horse collection in the world, including Beswicks and Royal Worcesters, including some of the Lindner bulls. Her collection is mind boggling. Unfortunately, she just passed away in May. We're still in shock. I just thank god we were able to visit her before she passed. okay, gonna cry now.

I believe I have all the North Lights sheep except the ram(s) they did in "art colors." Their sheep are very nice. Again, better than their horses, IMHO. They're very hard to find. My Suffolk Ewe broke a leg in an earthquake, and I've been hoping to replace her. But I should prob just get her repaired.

OMG! OMG! Quail does Herdwicks?!?!?! I'd forgotten about Quail. I have their salt and peppers of Southdowns and Wensleydales, I think the others are. Those lambs are awfully cute too!


What is the horse in your profile picture? It's very nice.

The horse in my profile is the Schleich racing set, it is nice isn't it! I only received it yesterday

I didn't know Royal Worcester made bulls, wow they are expensive! I know, those Beswick shorthorns are so fantastic - my uncle died recently and he had the bull. It had been broken quite a few times unfortunately but I really wanted it, not because it was a rare piece but because it was my late aunty's and it had sentimental value. I don't know what's happened to it now, sad
I'm sorry about your friend, that is sad. What happened to her collection?

Those Quail lambs and Herdwick sheep only came out, this year I think. They're adorable. I love Quail, I have one of the Swaledale sheep, you can get them as just figurines can't you, but mine was a money box. All the others I have are just figurines though, I recently bought the Kingfisher and he's so gorgeous.

I found a North Light sheep on eBay just now [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] it's only £17 - their horses are stylised, but I love them, I have two originals and the Cob is my favourite.

A great and awesome sheep collection Carolynn!
Although i stopped collecting them, and even some of my collection will go to you, i love to see that some people specialized in a certain group of animals.

As i watch a lot of programms on the BBC in the afternoon, about putting things to the auction and so on, i learned a little bit about those ceramic figurines to.
It is hard for me sometimes, to stay on the toy market only, as i often see such beautifull models in ceramic and resin, so i have some, but not much...

As promised, i will send you some pics of sheep i have for you here, and from there on we see if there is something interesting for you.
But i will keep my Britains, and other 1:32 scaled farm animals from other known brands, i did cost me to many years to get where i am now with them...