Today's topic is Cotton-Headed Ninny Muggins: a purchase you made on a whim. Been there more than once, but the model featured here is the one piece in my collection that I regret buying the most.
(Although, looking again at the prompt, it says nothing about it being something you regret. It could be something you bought on a whim and then discovered you'd hit the jackpot.)
People who know my collecting habits know that I have a fairly large collection-within-a-collection of circus horses and ponies. And it is not unusual for people to direct me to ones they've found on eBay, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, and elsewhere. Today's model is one of those.
This misshapen porcelain piece by Enesco is my Cotton-headed Ninny Muggin purchase. I'll be honest, when I unwrapped it from all its bubble wrap and toilet paper mummification, I thought, "Oh, gosh. What have I bought? This is awful!"
You can read the original post that I wrote when it arrived here: https://horsiemama.blogspot.com/2021/07/circus-time-enesco-circus-horse.html. Several people posted comments back then that they loved this piece and thought it was cute. Not me.
All I could see was that giraffe neck topped with a scraggly feather
and a faded pink satin bow on the tail.
It actually has a companion piece, one that I have not gone looking for.
It reminded me initially of Poppy, the Performing Pony produced by Cybis
and I wrote a comparison post of this piece to Poppy here: https://horsiemama.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-look-at-model-horse-colors.html.
My Cotton-Headed Ninny Muggins horse was made by Enesco in 1987 but I have never bothered to look for more information on it. I regret buying it, and I honestly do not like it. But, since I value model horses, I keep it tucked away in a corner of the china cabinet. It's behind some other pieces where I can't see it without doing some digging.
And there it is going to stay.
Stay 'tooned for tomorrow's prompt, A model that you would never let go. Got a couple of those!
