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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[/QUOTE]
This scenario has me cringing, I would go crazy, I hope your maid made it right.
Still have quite a few of mine (mostly 60’s - 80s), but I am re-homing them slowly. I just don’t have room for them anymore, and they’re part of a vast amount of things I just don’t really need. Will never have kids, and they’re not exactly the sort of Breyers you let kids play with anyway (I was pretty serious as a teen at collecting them!). It’s nice to see them going to new homes, but sad at the same time.
I’m of the china horse generation! I still have 4 or 5 that made it through many moves and many years. The one Breyer I have is the Cleveland Bay, because friends of ours own the CB stallion.
I lost all of mine in a flood about a decade ago. I miss them 
My mom still has all of mine in boxes in her basement. She’s given a few to my daughter (age 6) over the years, but she’s been way too young and hasn’t been that excited about them…neither have I since we just don’t have room for a bazillion Breyers at this point! But I predict that they will all be moving home with me in the not-too-distant future, lol!
Yes, I still have all of mine. I can’t part with them. Guessing I have 150ish. Most are still in boxes in the attic. I actually check on them to make sure mice haven’t eaten the boxes. Yes, I’m pretty obsessive about my ponies. Lol
I have some in a box somewhere, and I think my mom has some as well. I had a huge collection of other horse toys that were a little smaller and whinnied when you pressed a button and I don’t know if those are still around, and I had some My Little Ponies, too. I used to braid their hair for hours.
I have a really nice porcelain Breyer of a Spanish Barb horse that I wanted back from my mom once I moved and she wouldn’t let me have it. :lol: She doesn’t even like horses! I think it’s this one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/193825552/breyer-porcelain-spanish-barb-limited-to?ref=market
I still have all of mine, and I’m still a die-hard collector. I go to Breyerfest when I can afford it, still buy new in box ones, and still hit up antique shows/flea markets/garage sales/CL. I show at “live” shows, too, and at the model horse Nationals.
I think I have cough over 1000 of them.
Yeah… I’m hopeless.
I still have all of mine - and my uncle’s! They’re currently in trunks in the closet but ONE DAY, darnit, ONE DAY I’ll have room to display them!!
Wow!!! Some of you sure have A LOT of ponies!!! I had mine in boxes at parents but I’m WAY too old to have stuff at parents so they told me to take them- and a bunch of other stuff I had there. I doubt I have more than 20. I think I am going to re-home the yearling quarter horse, the arabian mare (black with white mane and tail), the appaloosa baby (even though it’s really cute, and maybe the rearing buckskin. I am definitely going to keep my jumping horse (still have the wall that it is jumping over- many on e-bay don’t!) and Clydesdale family. I have more but haven’t finished unpacking the boxes. I think I have a nice bay mare with a nursing foal and I’m going to keep them. It was such a nice part of my childhood to get new Breyers for birthdays and x-mass. I would like Breyer to make one of my horse- but she isn’t famous so I doubt that will happen.
I’d like to get Seattle Slew and Rags to Riches and Secretariat… and probably more but I really don’t need any more stuff like that…. I guess… well that would be the mature thing to do…but I am not always known for my maturity!
I saved all mine too. Having a huge number of nieces and nephews growing up meant that many did not survive. The ones that made it though are all wrapped carefully in newsprint (blank art paper- no ink) and stored in those cardboard storage boxes.
Maybe some day we’ll get our house organized enough for me to be able to pull a few out. I think I had a few of my favorites out at my apartment before I moved in with husband, but we are so crammed with stuff where we are now.
My favorites were my Khemosabi Arabian, Roemer, and my bronzed and numbered special edition Hyskos. My absolute favorite was my medicine hat paint from the Marguerite Henry book but I broke it’s leg a long time ago. I’m sure I have the leg saved somewhere too.
Odd coincidence on this thread.
I have about 50 or so I just decided I was going to sell mostly from the 80s and 90s.
In the process of buying a new home in TX and it doesn’t have much in the way of storage. If anyone in South FL or the San Antonio/Austin area are interested send me a PM.
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Most of my collection of 200 or so went g-d knows where during one of my father’s moves in or out of the family home. I do have dapple grey and bay Proud Arabian Mares, a “smoke” Running Mare and Running Foal, a Misty, and my third Breyer ever (purchased around 1969), a white Shetland Pony. They are pretty beat up, because you know, I PLAYED with my Breyers oh no. (And then got into the model horse thing, and painted some of them that even with a bit of wear could have been valuable.)
I also have some newer Stablemates bought for me by a friend, and two palomino fillies/mares that could pass for Morgans, because Feronia. And DH now tells me I need to start looking for plain bay Morgan-like fillies/mares, because Josephine.
i have 8 or 9 in the shelf in the living room.
I have about eight or so. A few glue repairs over the years as various children played with them. Our son has no interest, so, for now, they’re ‘retired’ on a shelf in the closet. Maybe another child will come along to appreciate them.
Maybe at one time they had value, but it makes me happier to see them played with by a child. I’m sure they look just as real and beautiful to that child as they did to me when I was little. Several were not new to me either, but I never noticed the little imperfections.
I sold a few I was less attached to when my parents moved across the country to retire. The rest went home with them and are displayed, largely in my bathroom of all places :lol:
I have a happy little story about rehoming one of my “unwanted” herd. I had painted a Proud Arabian Mare to liver chestnut tobiano. It was a pretty good job for a first try. She was standing on the shelf in Mom’s spare room along with a hundred or so models when Little Daniel the Amish Boy spotted her. Mom’s best friend is Amish and the children are occasionally in the house. She said she caught Daniel standing there just staring at all those horses and she asked which one was his favorite. He pointed out the spotted mare. Mom mentioned this to me and I told her “when you put together your Santa gifts for the Amish, I think that mare ought to go to Daniel.” Daniel is the sweetest little boy with a huge heart. Looks just like the Dutch Boy Paint logo. One time when I gave him a $5 bill for helping with the fencing, he went to his lunch box, and wordlessly offered me a cookie in trade.
Daniel had a good Christmas that year.
Jealous of everyone who still has theirs. I have 3 left of the over 100 I had as a child. I have moved at least 15 times since then and they just got to be too much of a burden to move and store. Most I sold on eBay, but a few boxes I donated to Goodwill :eek: However, I thought about how I felt as a child when I found one really cheaply at a thrift store or a garage sale…it was like Christmas. So I hope some of mine found a little girl (or boy) like that too.
The smell of a newly purchased Breyer horse still comes with a memory of excitement!
My herd of Draft horses watch me cook in the kitchen from high on the shelf (poised to run away should something catch fire).
A family of classic size Breyer warmbloods have a shelf in my study, and a grey Arabian is in our living room.
I sold a few to a collector last year.
I would love to trade someone some of my other Breyers in exchange for repainting one or two to mimic my real horses…
I’ve got a collection of almost 200 I think. Most from the 90s and some older ones. My best finds are the ones I get at antique fairs and stores. Pretty much all my horses are packed away in plastic containers unless they are still in their boxes because I kept most of the boxes. I think my favorite model is Secretariat. I have the gold one, the one with the derby rose neck cover, and the traditional one.
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