Second Post of the Day
Two years went by before I returned to BreyerFest. Why? All my children were now in school and, after volunteering in my kids' school and being hired to work as an aide, I had decided to go back to school and get my teaching license. But, even though my kids may have been in school, they also had busy lives outside of school be it sports, dance, riding lessons (huzzah!), scouts, music lessons, church activities...
The list goes on. I was probably the busiest I've ever been in my life.
Craig has always been good about parenting and husbanding (is that a word?) but even with his support, adding my own university work on top of that already heavy family and school load made it so that I did not go to BreyerFest 1996.
BreyerFest 1997
But! 1997 was a NAN year and Kat and I were all in, heavy load or not!
Breyer was still providing a dinner and the model given out was called The Dinner Model.
For 1997 it was Bold on the Stud Spider mold. That deep, dark palomino is still gorgeous nearly 30 years later. 3,850 were made of him and a mug with his likeness was included with the model. (As a teacher who received a lot of mugs as gifts, I ended up using my Bold mug to fill bird feeders. That way it wasn't stuck behind myriad other mugs in the cupboard and I got to see it often! Win-win!)
The real Bold was a police horse in Jacksonville, Florida where he served for 14 years, was in parades and TV commercials, and was Police Horse of the Year in 1995.
The very first BreyerFest Traditional Special Run, Excalibur (on the Hackney mold) was available with 200 having been produced and again four stablemate key chains of 500 each. (Once again, numbers were going up as the event grew.) However, only 45 auction lots were available that year.
1997 was the second year of Equilocity and the second NAN. Kathy and I attended both plus we spent an early morning at Keeneland.
Stay 'tooned!
That must be one of your favorite models! Did you get any of the others that year?
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