Allegedly some Solid Blacks were made as trophy models for the American Morgan Horse Association, around the same time. As far as I know, they’d be indistinguishable from the Regular Run Variations - unless they came with the documentation to prove otherwise.
In either case, the Solid Black Morgan is quite the rarity: I haven’t found another Solid Black Morgan since then. The prices I see them bringing on the secondary market make it unlikely that I’d ever be able to upgrade my boy if I wanted to.
Fortunately for me, it’s a low priority. Aside from the fact that he was one of my first "scores", the story of that score is also a keeper.
Many, many years ago I went with my family to an indoor flea market, one best known in these parts for having a dealer who carried most of the then-current Hagen-Renaker line. And also for a taxidermied Cheetah, but that’s another story. (The flea market, I mean, not the dealer.)
One dealer near the entrance had a small selection of Traditional Breyers - maybe a half dozen pieces - all priced at ten dollars apiece. I picked up the Morgan and stared at it, entranced; the dealer noticed my interest and said "I can go eight on the horses."
"All I have is seven." I answered back, matter-of-factly.
The dealer paused, nodded, and said "Okay, seven." And wrapped him up for me.
A few aisles later, Dad nudged me and whispered "That was a pretty smooth move you pulled back there." He was so proud: my daughter, the canny horse-trader.
I had to break it to him that the truth was far more mundane. "Dad, seriously, all I had was seven dollars!"
4 comments:
Ah, my Grail! Your stuff always has better stories behind it, though. ��
The only thing I like better than that stunning Morgan is the story of how you acquired him. Sure wish #48 variations had followed me home from flea markets! I always had to turn to the hobby to find them (not that that's a bad thing) and I certainly had never seen that one before.
I've always been curious about whether or not the solid black #48s were molded from the same batch of plastic, or were released here and there in various known base colors (gray, green, brown). Mine is also molded from pinkish/purple plastic.
Your amazing story reminds me how much I miss flea markets! We don't really have them here in Japan.
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