Harriet's schleich additions

Kiryuha wrote:

By the way, Harriet, you haven't mentioned where was your tapir made?

It's made in China actually.

It's now or never!
Does anyone could explain me why everybody says that schleich gazelle is Thomson and Schleich website is saying Cuvieri???
That question is important for me and I guess for Kiryuha too!

Well, there are quit some gazelle-species that could look like the Schleich gazelle, but is is obvious that they are Thompsons...
But i think, because Schleich has problems to make a male model with nice and thin horns, they said, that these 2 models are the Cuvier gazelle, although they do not match the profile of that species...
So in the eyes of most collectors, they are still Thompsons, and we wait eagerly for the male model, otherwise we use another brand to match with the two Schleich!





By the way, before the question comes again...
The male gazelle is made by the Nayab company in China, but brought out for several brnads, like Animal Classics-The Nature Zone here in Holland, or Kim Play, and many others...

Thanks Willy for the pics and explanation! Makes sense and I agree that is more similar to a Thomson but official info was other. We have too Schleich Emperor Penguins that Schleich is calling king penguins (chiks) and its parent is a King penguin... etc.! So this things are confusing for a new collector!

The name that Schleich gave to this gazelles, came much later as the model was brought out...
So there is some room for thinking in the collector-scene...

The first Schleich penguins were called king-penguins, as they had the colours of the emperor.
Now they did better i think with the newest models.
The two species do look very similar, although the king is smaller then the emperor, and the king has orange, and the emperor yellow on his head, but i think they know, but never thought really well with naming them...

Roger wrote:

Does anyone could explain me why everybody says that schleich gazelle is Thomson and Schleich website is saying Cuvieri???
That question is important for me and I guess for Kiryuha too!

We have discussed this issue earlier. I think that Cuvieri is just a mistake of site content editors

We have discussed this issue earlier. I think that Cuvieri is just a mistake of site content editors

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Thanks for your help. I know that we should read all treads but I'm in this forum a few weeks ago. So are some things I don't know.
Thanks to all!

Roger wrote:

We have discussed this issue earlier. I think that Cuvieri is just a mistake of site content editors

Thanks for your help. I know that we should read all treads but I'm in this forum a few weeks ago. So are some things I don't know.
Thanks to all![/quote]


...May be the brands has a problems with zoological species identification?
The Papo, s real (on morphology) leopard named - "jaguar", and Schleich,s mishmash with "king" / "imperor" penguin or story with gazelleTompson... What,s the matter?

Well, i agree with you that the Papo jaguear does look more like a leopard, but it was ment to be a jaguar at least...

Another addition to my collection, the Schleich Yak. It's a beautiful model. When I picked it up, I was surprised at the weight of it.

A must have Schleich for my collection! Love the Yak!

Nova wrote:

A must have Schleich for my collection! Love the Yak!

Thanks Nova, I'm really pleased with this one!!

Finally I have my computer back (although I lost all my pictures I'm going to try and get them saved, but it will be expensive)
First, my favourites, African Buffalo and calf (calf made in Germany)





Knabstrupper Stallion




Texas Longhorn Cow and Calf


and the whole family:

Dartmoor Stallion and Foal




the whole family:

Kudu family

With the Papo:



Akhal-Teke Stallion



Poitou Donkey family


All of them together

Oh my... They are fantastic! I´m so happy for you Harriet, congrats

I´m so sorry for your photos. You make such a beautiful pictures!!
I hope I will have "germany ones" i love the colour of buffalo´s horns :)

MartinH wrote:

Oh my... They are fantastic! I´m so happy for you Harriet, congrats

I´m so sorry for your photos. You make such a beautiful pictures!!
I hope I will have "germany ones" i love the colour of buffalo´s horns :)

Thank you Martin! I'm soooo pleased with them
I know I am quite upset I lost all my photos, but hopefully I can get someone to save them!

Good pictures! Very fine angle ! Simply the best.... until now!

alexmotoc wrote:

Good pictures! Very fine angle ! Simply the best.... until now!

Thanks Alex!

Wow! Congratulations, Harriet. They are all nice together.

Congratulations, Harriet, with the great new figueres

Gorgeous pictures, thank you so much for sending


I am awfully sorry to hear that you have lost your data, - all of those wonderful photoes
If only you can get them back

So : TAKE BACKUP EVERYBODY. NOW !

Congrats, Harriet! They are wonderful! I think I love ALL of the horses. I have the Falabellas coming, but I see I'm going to have to get the Dartmoors and the Knabstrupper as well. And maybe those Longhorns.

I think you guys have got me hooked....! :)

-Kristie

What do you mean you lost the photos? Aren't they available in your blog? You can just copy them back into your computer...

Gabe wrote:

What do you mean you lost the photos? Aren't they available in your blog? You can just copy them back into your computer...

Thank you Ron, Susanne, Kristie and Gabe

Yes you are right Gabe, most of my photos of my animal figurines outside are on my blog, but I have thousands of others of real animals, landscapes and family that I've lost. The only trouble with the ones on my blog is that they are reduced, so the quality isn't as good, but I'm glad I still have them yes!

Just wait when you start a family, you'll make backups every month. I keep my photos on 2 different PC-s

I used to back up my photos in a flash driver (or whatever you call those things now).
It's easy, reliable and portable.

Depends on flash's capacity, her pictures are probably huge