THE SPIRIT OF THE HORSE

 Picking up a Breyer horse at the Diakonie in Germany brought back lots of memories.

I think it took me right back to seeing an Aurora Black Fury box in Andy Foley's TV Toy Zone catalogue when I first started collecting.

I adored those early printed catalogues and I still have them, essential reading as they were on the otherwise boring 7am bus to Morley for work circa 1990. Its were my excitement for old toys was forged.

Seeing the Breyer was like seeing Fury.

Here's a built-up Aurora Black Fury kit as seen on auction. Black Fury was a 1950's comic character, a wild horse doing good deeds in a hostile world [is Black Beauty an older character?]

I think older memories stirred as well. My old Action Man horse was a real gem when I was a kid, standing tall in the imaginary parade ground of my bedroom.

Here's one seen on auction. It was larger then either the Breyer or the Aurora horses. What a beauty!

About a year ago I saw a similar Sindy horse in a Wetherby charity shop, like this one in an old sale. I regret not getting it.

Sindy also got a second horse with that familiar bent knee.

Funny how one thing can bring up so many memories like a pebble in a pond.

As a footnote to this horse's tale I've now identified my Breyer. Its called Valegro and is not as old as I thought, around 2015. Still, its vintage to me.

Have you found something that brought back memories readers?