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Arrakai
Country/State : Ljungby - Sweden
Age : 38
Joined : 2010-04-06
Posts : 780
| | Subject: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:34 am | |
| I love the fleemarkets that are held on an old square every summer in my town. I havent missed a single one in years, ´cus you never know what your gonna find. Sometimes I find dozens of great figurines, sometimes none. This saturday was one of those times with no animals  But I found one animal, and I´m a little curious about it. It´s a big hippo that looks a bit older, the material is light but hard, and the surface is a bit cracky. Cant find any mark on it. Does any of you recognise this "little" hippo?  With the old schleich hippo, for size;  I also found a stand where they were selling painted rocks. I didnt buy any (they were not that good looking), but I thought, "Hey, that looks fun", so on my way home I picked up some smal rocks. And last night I tried to paint a few of them. This was the result (I´m not going to show my first two tries, they look horrible  )  |
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Wildheart
Country/State : Bucharest,Romania
Age : 27
Joined : 2010-04-30
Posts : 2203
| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:37 am | |
| The rocks are very nice!!! They will be great decorations! Unfortunatey, I can't help with the hippo's identification!  |
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Roger
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Country/State : Portugal
Age : 50
Joined : 2010-08-20
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:18 am | |
| Congratulations for your work with the rocks, I also cannot help you with the mega hippo!  |
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HKHollinstone
Country/State : England, CUMBRIA
Age : 32
Joined : 2010-03-31
Posts : 11285
| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:11 am | |
| I love the hippo Anna! But I can't help you identify it - he's really nice though. Your painted rocks are so great! While on Holiday in cornwall, we often see rocks with pictures on them for sale - some of the rock shapes actually look like animals. We never bought any, but thought it was a nice idea and gathered a load of rocks from the beach. We never got round to painting them though!
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skysthelimit
Country/State : Serbia
Age : 47
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:14 am | |
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Kikimalou
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Country/State : Lille, FRANCE
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:20 am | |
| Congratulation Anna for your great find : A composition HAUSSER ELASTOLIN hippo  Already in the 1939 HAUSSER catalogue  I found this pic on the KIKIMALOU's website  Congratulation for the very nice rocks
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HKHollinstone
Country/State : England, CUMBRIA
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SUSANNE
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:32 am | |
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WILLYBACOMAN
Country/State : Zwolle, The Netherlands
Age : 62
Joined : 2010-03-30
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:53 am | |
| What a fantastic find on a flea-market Anna! I knew what it was, but Christophe was before me, so that is cleared then! You made nice pantings on those rocks!
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Sergey
Country/State : S. - Petersburg, Russia
Age : 58
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Roger
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Country/State : Portugal
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:44 am | |
| My opinion about the figure donnot change knowing the brand but congratulations for your precious find! |
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Philter4
Country/State : Back and forth between East and West coast of the U.S.A.
Age : 59
Joined : 2010-03-31
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:41 am | |
| Very good find, congratulations. |
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Wildheart
Country/State : Bucharest,Romania
Age : 27
Joined : 2010-04-30
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:25 pm | |
| I knew it! I knew it! It was one of those old Elastolins!!!   I just was scared to guess...  Congratulations Anna! |
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remrock02
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:47 am | |
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Arrakai
Country/State : Ljungby - Sweden
Age : 38
Joined : 2010-04-06
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:08 am | |
| Big thanx for the help on the hippo And thanx for the kind words on the rocks It was realy fun to paint on rocks, even thou it was a bit more difficult than to paint on paper  |
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WILLYBACOMAN
Country/State : Zwolle, The Netherlands
Age : 62
Joined : 2010-03-30
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| | Subject: Re: A big hippo Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:49 pm | |
| Good things come always the hard in life way Anna!
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