This Sentinel & Echo Get to Stay

There was an inadvertent clue to readers that my replacement Sentinel and Echo had arrived in the bog entry, Starting to Wrap it Up. 

It was Friday, the day we have Mama and Nash with us, and it was my turn to be downstairs with her when the box was delivered.

I was working on making sleeve buttons, but I was curious as to which foal I'd gotten, so I'd put my pliers down and opened it.

Sentinel was perfect - no snapped off front leg this time!

There was a hint of a pink nose,

and I could not find any flaws. My concerns of getting someone else's return started to ease.

As to which foal did I get?

The Running Foal. One of Breyer's most popular foal molds with 37 different iterations over the years.

It, too, has that bit of blush on its nose.

And, like Sentinel, I don't find any flaws on him. 

For those wondering if I was okay with having not gotten another Scratching Foal as I had in the first set of Sentinel and Echo, absolutely I am.

The woodgrain Running Foal was my very first Breyer foal and a gift from my father when I got my braces on. I really did prefer the Running Foal, even though I knew from having it in hand that the Scratching Foal was nice, too.

A few years ago, Breyer did away with individual Vintage Club member numbers that were on the information sheets that came with each piece.

The sheet tucked in with my first set said that that set was #534 of 1200.

My replacement set's sheet is #6/1200, a very low number.

So, what does that mean? Probably nothing much. It may indicate that this was one of the first sets packaged. And perhaps those first sets were set aside for instances just like mine - replacement. 

Or it could just be luck of the draw, just like the foal that club members received. The numbers really don't have meaning aside from the run number of 1200.

I am so glad and even a little relieved to finally have things resolved and my Sentinel and Echo tagged, photographed, and on the shelves. They also piqued my curiosity about something else, and I have begun doing some research for a blog post about that.

Stay 'tooned!