I love Breyer's early babies - the Lying, Grazing, Scratching, and Running Foals. (The Clydesdale Foal has never appealed to me.) I have two of the Black Appaloosa Lying Foals, and there is a BIG difference between the two of them.
The first I have had since the 1990s so he is not a part of my carpet herd. He has that odd dotted texture this mold had for years (see his midsection) and a nice little blanket with dripped and splashed spots.
He's pretty unremarkable but I still think he is cute.
There is a nice wide blaze, a hint of pink on his nose, and pinking in the near ear.
The off ear was simply painted black. (I have wondered about this before. Why paint one ear pink and not the other?)
A view of that cute spotted rump.
His counterpart is the same color but very different. Can you see it? (I know, those doggone phone pictures are not the best!)
Same pebbled midsection and drip and splash spots.
One pink ear
and one black one.
No pinking on the nose, though.
Cute little rump, just like the other. But look closely. See it?
He's a pearly! The first one on the left shows the starker white plastic on the rump while you can see the pearliness on the other. (It almost looks a little grayer to me due to the pearliness.)
You can see the pearliness here, too.
When I bought the pearly foal, I knew there was something different about him. I brought him home and compared him to the other, and I was right. After doing some research, I realized that he was a pearly, something I had heard about but never seen in-hand. (This was pre-internet days.)
Breyer makes several pearlies a year now, and they are beautiful, but I am glad to have this real, vintage, oil crisis one as part of my collection.
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