Wagons Ho!

(Collectors of a certain age will catch that title's reference. Hah!)

My plans are to examine my new Freeman Leidys piece by piece and compare them to those I already have in my collection. Deciding to begin with the wagons, I immediately ran into a problem.

My purple and green wagon is tucked into the living room china cabinet behind some potted plants and the loveseat. (A rearrangement I did at Christmas to make the living room bigger and, more importantly, add a layer of protection for the pieces inside the cabinet.)

To remove the wagon for photographing is more than I am up to at the moment; good thing I took pictures of that wagon before I put it in there.

The purple and green wagon incorporates all five colors that are used on the Freeman Leidy circus horses: green, purple, pink, blue, and yellow.

The cherubs look much happier than those on the pink and blue wagon! (They also have painted toenails.)

Aside from the maroon color on the trumpets, there are only three of those five colors used on my new wagon: pink, blue, and yellow. 

A big bow is on the back of both wagons but just as the ribbons in the manes and tails of the horses vary, so do the wagon ribbons. 

They look hand drawn to me, not stenciled, but I'm still thinking about that. I'd love to see another wagon to compare.

Happy cherubs with belly buttons and painted toes.

At least one unhappy cherub, both with belly butttons, and no painted toes.

The front of the purple and green wagon where the horses would stand has a hazy purple border.

A barely there pink border is on the other.

A maker's mark on the bottom of the purple and green wagon.

Interesting how that has been rotated 90 degrees on the pink and blue. Also, the "O" is lowercase. (In her book, Exploring the Model Horse Hobby, author Nancy Kelly states that the "CO" stands for "Ceramics Original" and that these were made in the 1940s.)  

Since aquiring the purple and green wagon, I have passed over several other Freeman Leidy wagons. They're big, they're fragile, and they take up space.

Now that I have an in-hand pink and blue one, I wish I had not - I'd love to have a third example to compare to these two. (In other words, translate that into, "Lynn is now doing searches for Freeman Leidy wagons." Hah!)

Tomorrow I plan to begin comparing the horses. Having said that, Nashie and Mama are spending the weekend with us, and that always ramps up the activity in our house and can keep me so busy, I don't get everything done that I'd like.

So, stay 'tooned on that!