State of the Carpet Herd 2021

Images, Little Plastic Art

Awareness of the outside world. BreyerFest Artisan’s Gallery 2020. Sales pages, but it doesn’t cost anything to look.
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Additions to the herd since BreyerFest last year. [Model Horse Archives]

Classics, i.e. what you think of when you think of a Breyer model. Only one (two) new, La Molina & Masella. Silver filigree mare with blue filigree foal.

Breyer, Products: La Molina & Masella, 2020 Winter Decorator Web Special

Model Horse Madness: Black Beauty and La Molina & Masella!, December 2020

La Molina, Identify Your Breyer: Andalusian Mare

Masella, Identify Your Breyer: Andalusian Foal

Freedom, i.e. the middle size that seems neither fish nor fowl to me. One that I won in a raffle and am hoping to rehome. Two model lines is enough for me to keep track of.

Stablemates, i.e. the little dudes. At first, I was only tracking the big horses. Therefore my Stablemates records are spotty. Valiantly resisting the urge to get lost in a data update. These are the ones I know are new within the year.

Stablemates Club

Atticus, bay

Breyer History Diva: Atticus, Cassidy, and the Box of Mysteries

Identify Your Breyer: Clydesdale Stallion

Hendrik, palomino

Breyer History Diva: The Latest in Stablemates

Identify Your Breyer: Standing Friesian

Tobias, Appaloosa

Model Horse Madness: Tobias is Here

Breyer History Diva: Getting Artsy

Identify Your Breyer: Appaloosa

Miscellaneous

Justify, who jumped into my cart when I ordered Atticus in February. Identify Your Breyer: Thoroughbred

Prince, arrived with strained leg, at vet for repair. Collector’s Club bonus for 2020. Identify Your Breyer: Fighting Stallion

Conga

Magnolia (purple), arrival date uncertain, came as part of Mystery Unicorn Foal Surprise in a random treat yoself purchase.

Silver Magnolia, my first MH$P purchase, end of 2020

Pearl, Triple Mountain, March

Identify your Breyer: Magnolia

Border colors from this year’s BreyerFest logo

Tempus Continues To Fugit
Real-life intrudes on the model horse world.

Breyer is saddened to hear of the passing of Janice Cox, a longtime model horse hobbyist best known for being the creator and webmaster of the reference site Identify Your Breyer.

Breyer – My Collector Story: Janice Cox

Spoke with her once by email. After citing IYB extensively for the 2020 post, I asked if she had a donation button. She said no. Quotes and credit were fine. [Carpet Herd 2020]

Stay safe. Stay sane.
Katherine