Featured JAH - 6/29/2024, May/June 2001

 Hello and welcome to another edition of Featured JAH! Wow, pretty timely that I'm covering May/June 2001 in (well, the tail end of) June 2024. Let's get started! 

On the front cover, Tom Hilgenberg and Who's Zoomin Who or "Gus" take a water obstacle. On the back cover, the porcelain "Precision" makes its debut. 

In the Editor's Column, Stephanie talks about new things and introduces three new staff members, who get their own blurbs on page 3. 

After skipping an article about Who's Zoomin Who (I don't think he got his own Breyer model, which is a little confusing), on page 6 we find a reveal of some Breyerfest special runs, including raffle model Siren and the legendary Poet. On page 7 is the first two of "Top 10 reasons to go to Breyerfest."

After skipping the rest of the reasons to go to Breyerfest (do we really need reasons to go? We just go!), a book review and an ad about a Robert Vavra exhibition at the KHP (some of his photos are still on display in the KHP visitor center), we come to an article about Breyer portrait horse Jet Deck on page 14-15. 

On page 16 we have a salute to Hollywood Dun It, and on page 17 is a Collector's Corner article featuring Michelle Crivelli. 

On page 18-19 we have an article about Jeanne Mellin Herrick, sculptor of several Breyer molds including the Friesian, Sherman Morgan, Roemer and more. She also tells the story of the "John Henry" incident, explaining why the mold was originally so lumpy (Breyer did eventually smooth out the lumps). She passed away in 2015. 

This week's centerfold subject is the beautiful Third Time's A Charm! This guy was the third Connoisseur release, as his name suggests. I still haven't managed to get my hands on one of these guys (for a price I was willing to pay). Maybe this year I'll find one! 

After skipping a how-to article and a showcase display contest results, on page 26-27 we have a Breyer scrapbook of photos from various Breyer events.

On page 28 we have more Breyer scrapbook photos. I was always amused at the bottom photo. Look happy, woman! Your horse just won a grand championship! Well, maybe she thought the photographer was just photographing the horse and not her. Anyway, I cropped out the first page of Horse Trader.

After skipping the rest of Horse Trader and a Know Your Breed about the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, on page 38 we have a Caption Contest and a Who Am I? featuring a Midnight Sun of some sort, and on page 39 is the first page of this week's Vintage Point, this week covering the Stretch Morgan. 

On page 40-41 is the rest of the Vintage Point, and that brings us to the end of this issue! Check back next week for July/Aug 2001!