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I think Nancy Young rather conclusively proved that the Breyer Adios and the Boehm Adios were sculpted concurrently; and their similarities.
Breyer historian Nancy Young deemed the 1970s the "decade of diversity," and that moniker is quite fitting - the 1970s saw many new additions to the Breyer line.

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My sister Sarah and I have a table at No NAN-sense this Thursday morning from 10:00-11:00am at the Rupp Arena, and I put together a little handout for anyone who comes by who is interested in collectibility showing and judging. Here is a virtual copy of the text with links to all of the listed reference materials. (For regular MHC blog readers, this information is updated from several posts made a few years ago.) Enjoy!

What is collectibility?

Collectibility is a division in model horse showing that rewards rarity and desirability rather than correct anatomy, color genetics, or conformity to a breed standard. It’s the division where decorators, woodgrains, highly stylized models, and all sorts of other oddities that don’t fit into normal breed classes have a chance to shine. Models may be vintage or new, realistic or fantasy-colored. The provenance of a model and the bits of ephemera that might have been sold with it are also an important part of collectibility showing. Rare models of all makes are welcome---plastic, porcelain and ceramic, metal, even wood or

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Frappe’s quick sellout was a bit of a surprise. I don’t mind being wrong in this case, if only to take pleasure in seeing some of the other know-it-alls being silenced as well. (A little schadenfreude every once and a while ain’t a bad thing.)

In my case, though, my reservations weren’t with the model, but the circumstances: the economy, the holidays, the rare-model-grabfest coming up at the end of the week, and the overall grumpiness of the hobby-at-large kinda had me feeling that it might take a little longer than a mere 24 hours.

(And now Reeves is throwing grab bags into the mix this week, too. So tempting…must resist!)

At first I thought maybe everyone had a same reaction to the color that I did, but now I’m thinking that an awful high percentage of buyers bought duplicates.

I understand this on one level: everyone wants to make a little extra cash any way they can nowadays.

On the flip side, speculating is just plain bad for the market. It’s not just the money issue (with a few winners, a lot of losers) but there’s also a p

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Breyer history nerds will know where this post is (eventually) headed, and in my defense, this was originally intended to be strictly a discussion of the Breyer Modernistic Buck and Doe. But as is so often the case, the more you dig into something, the more interesting it becomes, and simple posts spiral out of control. Such is the case here. The more I dug for answers and evidence, the more I came up with new questions instead! So rather than a simple post about the Breyer Buck and Doe, I present you with what became an accidentally encyclopedic post about Don Manning, Nosco Plastics, and how they tie in with Breyer.

Manning madness

Early on in my time spent scouring flea-markets and antique malls for model horses, I became aware of what I assumed were copies of Breyer's Modernistic Buck and Doe. I saw a few sets over the years---clear plastic, translucent blue, etc. I paid them no mind because they weren't gold, and therefore I knew they weren't Breyers. When Nancy Young published her Breyer history opus in 1997, I read it voraciously. She described the clear version