Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured JAH! This week's issue is Fall 1994, so grab your favorite fuzzy sweater and pumpkin spice refreshment of choice and get ready for another trip down memory lane.
On the front cover, Hackney mare Native Donna Beverly struts her stuff. On the back cover, the 1994 JAH special run Moon Shadows also struts his stuff, and probably sold out really fast.
On the inside cover, feel free to drool over the handsome Winchester, the 1994 Breyerfest Raffle Model. At this time there was still only one raffle model despite the event now being three days long. We also see the first special runs created especially for Breyerfest to be purchased at the event - a precursor to the special run line items we have now.
Stephanie recaps Breyerfest in the Editor's Desk article - apparently the 1994 event drew 15,000 people, which is pretty impressive. In Dear JAH, we see some valuable information about materials the various Breyer products are molded from. Also, apparently Peter Stone, Breyer Man's favorite Breyer model is/was Sham.
On page 6 we have a Who Am I? that looks like a PAM, or maybe a CAM. On page 7 we have the start of the Breyerfest recap.
The recap continues on page 8-9, complete with a photo of Peter Stone, Breyer Man. One of the top items at the live auction was a "rosy rabicano roan Sham" which sold for $1,200, equivalent to $2,482 now. There were a lot more auction lots then compared to now - they must have really been cleaning out the archive room in those days.
On the centerfold we have some photos from that year, including the live auction (models outdoors, where anyone could grab them?), the raffle (also outdoors in the hot sun, perfect for July in Kentucky), someone shopping in a vendor tent (those had all been in the covered arena in recent years, but are starting to show up back in tents outside the arena in the last couple of years) and a Collector's Class entry (no indication of how it placed).
On page 27 we have the remainder of the Breyerfest recap article. I cropped out the other page that had some classified ads on it.
This article's Vintage Point covers the Five Gaiter, with photos of all its releases up to that point (not including Moon Shadows - refer to the back cover for him). Interestingly, CH Imperator (regular run from 1994-1995) isn't pictured here for some reason, though he's mentioned in the article. I wanted CH Imperator back in the day. I don't remember if there were other Five Gaiters I wanted.
That brings us to the end of the fall 1994 issue. Check back next week for Winter 1994!
That brings us to the end of the fall 1994 issue. Check back next week for Winter 1994!
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