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This is a rare Glossy Black and White Pinto Prancer Music Box
complete with Indian Chief, all accessories including the incredibly
rare paper headdress and metal bow, and the original instructions.
The tune played by the music box has not been identified, but
it is speculated to be something made up to "sound"
like Native American music.
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The back of the set showing off the accessories: knife, tomahawk,
bow, quiver, and arrows. The accessories were made in a variety
of colors such as yellow, red, white, brown, and even translucent
red.
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This is the Robin Hood set featuring a white Prancer, all original
accessories, and the very rare hang tag.
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Another music box, this one the Glossy Palomino Prancer with
Lucky Ranger and all accessories. This music box plays "Home
on the Range."
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The Canadian Mountie set with a rare original box.
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The plum Prancer with Kit Carson and all accessories.
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The rarest of the decorators, this is the Wedgewood Fury. He
is 1 of approximately 7 blue Furies (2 of which we own) currently
known to collectors.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Montag Brothers Paper Company based
in Atlanta, GA, offered a number of premiums
to school children who bought their products. Kids could cut out
and collect the "Blue Horse" trademarks found on Montag
goods and send them in to the company for prizes, ranging anywhere
from beanie caps to bicycles. In the early 1960s, Montag commissioned
the Breyer company to make a blue horse, like their trademark,
to offer as a premium. Only a handful of samples were made and
sent to Montag, and the company decided not to go ahead with the
premium due to lack of interest. The few models received were
sent home with Montag staff members.
This particular model sat in the Montag company president's office
for several years before it was given to the company's advertising
executive, a horse figurine collector. He in turn sold the model,
still wrapped in newspapers from 1965, to my family from his antique
store in 1994. Our model is pictured with a variety of Montag
paper goods and several original Blue Horse trademarks that were
never mailed in. |
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An absoutely exquitite
Woodgrain Fury. I think he's the most contrasty woodgrain I've ever
seen. He came from the collection of the late Judy Grant. |
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This is the elusive
Fury with Paper Saddle. This model sports an original saddle---beware
of color-copied reproductions! The repros I have seen have all been
initialed on the girth by the woman who sold them. This model was
purchased before the repros became available. |
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Two variations on
the Fury model---the one on the left has painted white socks while
the one on the right has bare plastic socks (but a painted blaze,
go figure). |
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The hard to find
"Black Beauty" Prancer is one of the prettiest of the
Fury Prancers. This one sports silver trimmed tack. |