I still have mine but I am thinking of rehoming some of them. Mine were played with gently and are all in good condition. There are also some I would like to get- like Seattle Slew since my mare is descended from him. Just curious what you do with your Breyers once you are “too old” to play with them.
Got my first Breyer horse in 1961. I was an easy kid to buy presents for. Mine are in the attic. Re-homing them is a good idea. I’ve got two new grand-nieces, hmmmm.
I have all of mine (70’s and early 80’s) in boxes in my garage. I’ve moved them countless times and they have never been unpacked. I honestly thought at the time that I would keep them for my kids. Since that never happened, I’m waiting for my horse-crazy nieces to be old enough to appreciate them.
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I still have mine but I am thinking of rehoming some of them. Mine were played with gently and are all in good condition. There are also some I would like to get- like Seattle Slew since my mare is descended from him. Just curious what you do with your Breyers once you are “too old” to play with them.[/QUOTE]
you quit playing and get serious!
You deck them out and attend shows!
(I was at an exhibition, ‘40 years Playmobile’ I didn’t get on the wagon in year one, but by year 2 or three I was on board! The dioramas have been build largely by fans of the toy - and I thought I was a hardcore fan, having still all of my sets, locked securely away. I am but a mere amateur! Bad one at that!) http://www.museumsreport.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/6_Sammlervitrine_Hambacher_Fest.jpg this is an important moment in German history, ‘reenacted’ by those figures)
I still have mine. My mother finally took them out of storage and put them on shelves in a spare room. It’s nice to visit them now and then. And yes, I occasionally buy one even now. I have half a dozen of the porcelains from when they first came out. I had many more but have occasionally sold them off to buy more useful horse items.
Luckily I haven’t become addicted to the artist resins. I’ve purchased two but given them as gifts. There are a few resins I would LOVE to own, but I still find it difficult to pay more for a resin than I paid for my horse
I still have all mine in a closet at my mother’s house (all lined up on the shelf).
Most of mine are under the house in boxes. I need to get on the model horse circuit and sell them to someone who can appreciate them.
I have two classic rearing stallions of rare colors that I have on my mantel.
You’re never too old to play with them. 
I still have mine circa late 60’s to mid 70’s. Time to farm them out to the grandchildren. 
Still have a few of my old ones from the 70’s, and DD’s collection is also stored, she’s now out of the house, living away.
Went to an auction a few weeks back, the elderly couple was now in a home. The wife collected Breyers (over 300 being auctioned) and was a “club” member, there were boxes upon boxes of them for auction, most in lots of 4 or 5. By the end of the day, they were going for $10 a box, so I snapped up quite a few, new in the box…averaging $2.50 a horse:)
…So I now have 24 new Breyers, including some gorgeous Christmas and Halloween patterned ones, those are pretty cool. I also got a Breyer resin sculpture of Little Yellow Jacket, the bucking bull, new in the box… and have since found out it is probably worth hundreds-and I sure didn’t pay that for him!
I have all mine. About 150, I think.
About 150 of them, almost all on shelves in my room at my parents’. Most were bought to be played with, but I unwittingly wound up having some that are worth a bit. (I also have the little model of Little Yellow Jacket, but he’s not in the box, he’s on the shelf. He was my favorite PBR bull.) They don’t eat, they don’t poop, just need dusting on occasion.
I got my first one in the 60’s and have one of the earliest ones. My early ones were well played with but I collected a bunch of others when a friend gave me hers. Didn’t buy new until my daughter arrived and we bought quite a few plus of course much of their equipment, including the poop and a fly! I was collecting the Christmas ones, missing the first and then after about 10 years worth, ran out of room for them! I was given a Strapless and a Barbaro as gifts and they are still in boxes on top of a curio cabinet. I did buy one of the hunter ponies, Enchanted Forest, maybe and repainted him to look like one of my horses since the model looks just like him other than the color. It was fun redoing it and now I have something else to dust from time to time but I enjoy them!
I still have all my Breyers and a number of the Hartland horse and cowboy rider sets. The Hartland sets have really appreciated in value! Some of the sets are now worth over $500! I was a good kid and managed to keep all the small parts that went with the sets. Some of my sets; Roy & Dale Rogers, Lone Ranger & Tonto, Gil Favor (from Rawhide).
I gave away most of mine in my mid-teens, but I still have like eight in a box in my closet. I’d sell them if someone wanted them–I’m sure not using them!
I have a favorite few, still … rehomed some. I just bought one off ebay, though because it looks exactly like my horse: El Pastor. I couldn’t resist. I bought a scratch and dent one so I didn’t have to pay for the NIB ones that are expensive.
I still have my first one bought in 1968 or so, appaloosa Arabian mare (shiny). I love all my grazing mares and foals, too.
I have all mine still! DD #1 loves them, even though a few were mutilated by a maid’s daughter when I was young. It never occurred to me that the maid would bring her child, or that I should lock up puff paint and my Breyers in anticipation of such an event
I still have mine, packed away in my cousin’s basement. They were all from the 70’s, and the bay shetland pony was my first. Back then, there weren’t any cool accessories for sale, so I used to make my own blankets and wraps for them. Even made stables out of the boxes complete with stall nameplates.
Also had quite a few of the little Stablemates. I made a racing stable and used a large oval rug as a track. Gosh, what a lonely but imaginative child I was.
All of mine are still in my room at my parents. I could never sell them. In fact, recently DH knocked one(of my faovrites) over and chipped its ear. :mad: I yelled at him, before I could stop myself. I was panicking, envisioning broken legs. He said something like, “Fine, I won’t ever touch them again.” I responded with, “Good, never again!” Not my finest moment… but seriously, it was a Commemorative Edition!!! :eek:
I love those Breyers and much of my younger days was spent collecting and playing with them.
I have Niatross because I rode horses related to him. I have two of the paint-your-own models that I did up to look like favorite horses. And I have a handful of the Stablemates ones on my bookshelf. But I got all of these when I was already an adult :lol:
