FRANKLIN MINT CAROUSEL SEA HORSE 94 Points SEAHORSE

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THE FRANKLIN MINT TREASURY OF CAROUSEL ART The CAROUSEL SEAHORSE 94 Points A benefit for Fuzzy Sleeps All Day Ferret Shelter. In 1990, The Franklin Mint created a set of one dozen beautifully hand-painted porcelain replicas of some of the most prized EARLY 20TH CENTURY CAROUSEL ANIMALS then preserved in Private American Collections. For your perusal we have THE CAROUSEL SEAHORSE, carved by The Dentzel Company circa 1885. The Seahorse is an authentic replica of "Brandy" a rare carousel Seahorse housed in the private collection at The International Museum of Carousel Art. THE CAROUSEL SEAHORSE is suspended on a spindled brass bar which mounts to an oval base of Cherrywood with a felt underlining. It measures 6 3/8" at the top of the bar, 3 7/8" at the saddle. The CAROUSEL SEAHORSE is scarcest of the twenty-four Franklin Mint Carousels, as it was fired in an edition limited to just forty-five days. We have had only eight or nine of these in the store in over three years, but despite consistent price increases, we have yet to find a market price ceiling, as no TFM SEAHORSE has ever occupied shelf space in the store for more than one week. The GRADED CONDITION of this FRANKLIN MINT CAROUSEL SEAHORSE is: EXTREMELY FINE CONDITION . The Base is moderately figured, and has excellent finish depth. There are two very minor flaws to the upper corner of the base, at 5 o'clock and 8 o'clock (-4 points). There is one finish irregularity, a smudge, on the left (undisplayed) side (-2 points). This CAROUSEL SEAHORSE receives a Numeric Score of: 94 Points . This is a very nice example of the least common TFM carousel of the 1990 Treasury of Carousel Art set. Proceeds benefit Fuzzy Sleeps All Day Ferret Shelter.If you ask me, “Who’s your baby?”, I’ll say, “It’s LITTLE ZOE!”Little Zoe, Little Zoe--She’s a pound of Fuzzy-WuzzyAnd she sleeps all day, and she lays around, but she’s my LITTLE ZOE!Little Zoe, Little Zoe, She’s my girl.Who’s your baby? LITTLE ZOE!Who’s your baby? Little Zoe. We use a jeweler’s loupe when grading porcelain and fine china. We make every effort to find every chip, crack, scratch, break, repair, and/or finish damage/irregularity. We grade strictly and to the highest standard. We do not do repairs . We do not disguise damage. We clean superficially & dust/polish wood surfaces, and describe items as we find them. Our customers know exactly what they are purchasing, and are NEVER unpleasantly surprised. Our packaging is first-rate. Of 600+ shipped packages, we have received reports of only two that contained damaged merchandise, and BOTH OF THESE COMPLAINTS were from a single Buyer, and we therefore regard them as highly suspect. More to the point, we do not believe that this Buyer communicated honestly about the condition of the merchandise that she received. We guarantee that your merchandise will arrive in the condition in which it was shipped, and we are SELF-INSURED . Or iginal Invoice Detail: Amount: $37.50 CA Sales Tax: $2.34 Shipping/Handling: $1.95 Total Payment: $41.79 Dimensions Height: 6 3/8" Length: 5 3/8" Width: 7/8" Shipping will be combined for all Carousel pieces: 1-2 pieces ship as 1. 3-4 pieces ship as 2. 5 pieces ship as 3. 439 pieces ship as 407. Insurance for the full purchase price is mandatory. Thanks very much for your time and interest. Questions and comments are encouraged and appreciated. We review and select such correspondence at irregular intervals, and present "THE RALPH WALDO EMERSON AWARD for PITHY EXCELLENCE " and THE "NOT THE RALPH WALDO EMERSON AWARD", variously called "The Other Award", "Stylishly Lazily", "Read Me to Sleep", "Back to Ya'", "Bizarre, But Boring", "Again, Another Encore Once More Again, Again", "Redundantly Redundant", "Inanity's Perfection", "Rude Boy", and the coveted "Me Cum Vulgare Generaleque Ostentatione, Moris In... read more

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