Vintage Club Kirk & His Insert

For weeks, the box containing Kirk, the most recent Vintage Club offering, has been sitting on my desk. I've wanted to open that box, but I needed time to take photos of him, to get him tagged, and then to find a space for him on my shelves. 

Finally, I got that time.

Aside from a small bent corner, the shipping box looked okay.

Kirk's inner box looked fine until I looked at the top of it.

Oh, no. The ears had come through it. 

Sure enough, despite being bubble wrapped,

Kirk's near ear had poked through the bubble wrap and then the box - twice. Fortunately though there were no rubs on that ear and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Kirk is absolutely gorgeous. He's a glossy splatter grey, a highly popular vintage color that is very well executed on this piece.

He has a striped mane and tail and my piece is flawless.

Kirk is also a throwback to the 1950s night lights and has a jack in his belly where he can be connected to a power source.

The removable power cord is quite long enabling him to be placed a good distance away from the plug.

Kirk is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Vintage Club pieces of all.

Anyone else catch this error on Kirk's certificate of authenticity? When I read that, I thought that that was a really odd way to describe his color. In fact, it made no sense. Something was wrong.

I compared the certificate to a screen shot I'd taken of his description when he was released.

Yep! ICONIC is the word Breyer meant, not chaotic. Makes MUCH more sense!

Informational inserts always come with Vintage Club pieces, and Andrea Gurdon used to write them. I've wondered who would do them after she passed away, or if perhaps we were lucky and she'd completed the 2024 inserts before she had. I'm not sure that she did, though.

This insert did not seem like her writing, but I can't put my finger on why - it just doesn't "feel" like Andrea. I've read her blog for years, I've read all of her Vintage Club inserts, and I read her Morning Glory Ranch Sampler every year it was published. I'm very familiar with her writing style and lean toward thinking that she may not have written Kirk's insert.

But, I may be wrong and she did write this one, too.

Please don't misunderstand - there is absolutely nothing wrong with this insert; it's fine. It's just that the writing style doesn't have the familiarity for me that Andrea's did. 

A part of me hopes that this insert is one last bit of Andrea's knowledge being shared with the rest of us. Wouldn't that would be lovely?

If you know who write Kirk's insert, please email me at horsiemama8@gmail.com or make a comment below. I'm curious and I suspect I am not alone in wondering.

Thanks.