| Old Julip Originals |
| These are my older julips, ranging from 1950's to 1990's, and all shapes and sizes from shetland ponies to shires, donkeys to jumping horses, and everything else in between. Here you can meet my collection of second-hand and Vintage Originals. This is page two, click here to go to page one if you missed them, and don't forget to go on to page three! |
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| An old julip in beautiful, spotless condition is this lovely chestnut, Colin. A wonderfully sweet-looking and handsome mould, julip's Connemara is huge, horse sized rather than ponyish, so I show him as a cob. Colin has a lovely bright ginger mane and tail, and a very friendly look on his face. He came with all his original tack, rugs, mucking out equipment, and his equally red-haired rider, now named Ailsa. |
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| Speckle is another of my julips who had to undergo major restoration work. Top right is a photo of her condition when she arrived, her legs had gone all gooey and mishapen with age, and were beyond saving. |
| Below, showing one of the in-between stages - I've cut away all the sticky squidgy latex, to expose the original leg wires, around which I rebuilt new milliput legs, as close to the photos of intact Welsh Pony mould julips as possible. |
| (Above right)...and here's the finished pony. Speckle looks much happier with her new legs. I also had to replace her tail, and give her new ears, but i've matched them (and her legs) as close as I could to her original paint colouring, I used a toothbrush to flick on the speckled black bits over a base colour of beige. |
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| This amazing Julip is Isambard, my jumping horse. Never very common, the jumping horses are now very rare indeed, very valuable, and highly sought-after. This wonderful dappled grey was made in 1971, and is my most expensive Julip - he cost a ridiculous amount of money, but to me he was worth every penny because I love him to bits. The jumping horse is a really magnificent mould, and Isambard has such a sweet face. He's still very soft and bendy, and his paintwork is in as-new condition. His rider here is Herbert, a 1970's huntsman, but the tack is home-made (Isambard is so big that none of my real julip tack would fit him). |
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| (Left) Those big dark eyes have a very worried look in them, maybe he doesn't think he's as good at jumping as we all expect! |
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| Julip donkeys are somewhat legendary, having been mentioned in the Julip catalogue for years, but never actually pictured! Here is one, I got him second hand, I had to restore his paintwork a little by rubbing brown paint into the cracks, but other than that he's in lovely condition. I named him Ichabod. |
| This little brown chap was a special order in 1975 (because inside his mouth it says ES - E stands for the year, 1975, and S means 'special', a custom-painted order.) |
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| Bouncing round the paddock like foals do, Smartie is full of character, he seems to be a very cheeky little chap. |
| (Below) This delightful little pinkish roan foal is made in the old yearling mould. His mouth letter is I, making him a 1979 baby. He's been adopted by Seraphim, the 1978 arab mare (see further up this page). Smartie - his original name - came from ebay, as soon as I saw him I knew I wanted to add him to my herd, I adore his colour and his sweet, playful little attitude! |
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| This very tall, very leggy julip is Sheba, a beautifully coloured example of the older arab mare mould, from the early 1970's. She has lasted really well, her original paintwork needed no touching up, and her soft wool mane and tail are in lovely condition. The old arab mare is a bit of a 'marmite' mould, most julip collectors either love it or hate it, because (as even the fans like myself will admit), it is very strange looking! There is an equally long and leggy arab stallion from the same era, you can see mine further down this page. Elli owns a foal in the exact same colour as this mare, who came from the same seller, so we think she was originally ordered as Sheba's baby. |
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| Bertie is a beautiful example of the shetland pony mould. The most adorable little cute pony in my whole collection, he's one I always liked when he belonged to someone else, so I was delighted to finally get the chance to own him. He's in almost perfect condition for his age, and has just yellowed slightly, no cracks or damaged paint at all. |
| Bertie was painted specially to order from photos, in 1979, as a portrait of a real pony. Not only does this mean he's got very lifelike and individual patches, it also makes him more special as he was a model of a much loved real pony, and gives him more character and history. |
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| This gorgeous old-mould arab stallion was made in the late 60's, probably 1967 according to his first owner. When I bought him he'd had some substantial damage due to his age, one leg wire was snapped, and the other foreleg was snapped right off. But with a little time, some milliput, a paperclip and a few dabs of paint, I've got him looking good as new and standing firmly on all four legs again. I also repainted his eyes as they'd rubbed off, but I copied the original style for models of this era, so he should look exactly as he did in his younger days. His beautiful dappled and shaded colouring is one of the nicest original paintjobs I've ever seen on a julip. |
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| This stunning horse is a 1976 cleveland bay, a huge mould with a really sweet face. He has survived the years very well, and only needed his paint touching up to cover the cracks. His original name, which I have kept, is Calypso. A really sought after mould, the cleveland bay is one of the really old fashioned julips with a chunky body, long legs, big feet, and a sweet expression. |
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| Bought from the same home, this little pony is now living here with her old friend Calypso. Barley is a beautiful dun from 1985, in absolutely mint condition, looking almost new despite her age. With gorgeous big eyes and such a lovely colour, I just had to buy her as well. Barley looks a very happy pony, and I'm really glad I got her. This is the version of the welsh pony mould which is still going today. |
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| Bought from ebay, this little pony is Silver Cloud, in the handy hunter mould. Another very old-fashioned mould, the handy hunter is pretty rare, especially in such good condition as this. Cloudy had to have half of one of his feet repaired, and a couple of paint rubs on his ears and muzzle touched up, but otherwise he has lasted very well. he's a very cute little pony, you can imagine him being a very kind natured and willing ride if he were real. Although he looks cream, I'm not 100% sure if he has yellowed with age, or whether he started out as a cream pony, as he seems to have a white sock on one hindleg. |
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| This lovely old chestnut roan arab stallion came to me in a bit of a state, he was very rubbed and scratched and dirty, had next to no mane and tail, and the wires in his legs had poked through and worked their way out. I gave him a good clean, then snipped off the remaining wire, and filled the holes it had left. Then I spent a very long time painstakingly filling in the scuffed paintwork, using speckled-on paint to cover the gaps where his original colour had rubbed off. Finally I gave him a new bright ginger mane and tail, which was his original colour when I pulled the last remaining tufts out of his neck. You can see more of his restoration, with photos of the various stages, here. |
| Ready for even more Julips? Click here to go to page three of my Vintage Originals... |