Website Recommendation

[jaywilli7610]

I've just stumbled across this website.

http://www.britainsheraldfarm.co.uk/index.html

Great site, really informative and some very rare items to see.

[david_scrivener]

Ah yes, Jonathan Stephens' site. If you think the site is informative, wait 'til you read his in depth studies of individual items. You can (or could anyway, I assume this offer is still going) download one (running sheepdog I think) for free, to get the iea of what they're like. Jonathan is the 'uber-geek' of these farm figures. Once you get a study, you will then get out all the examples of the figure in question, including those you had previously thought of a duplicates, and find your most powerful magnifying glass, and go through them all. This usually take some time, and afterwards you'll have discovered that many of your 'duplicates' aren't, well not by Jonathan's standards anyway. Apart from the obvious different versions, such as colour, and those with the Herald trumpeter logo underneath, later changed to 'Britains Ltd' (sometimes in several versions, Jonathan has noticed that there were two or more moulds of many of these figures, all on one sprue, for plastic moulding machines big enough to make 2/3/4 at a time, plus changes over time. The first Herald figures were smooth, with 'texturing' added to give an appearance of fur, a few years later.

Edited January 29, 2012 by david_scrivener

[MuirHillyBilly]

Thanks for this mate, good find

[ploughmaster]

... Once you get a study, you will then get out all the examples of the figure in question, including those you had previously thought of a duplicates, and find your most powerful magnifying glass, and go through them all. This usually take some time, and afterwards you'll have discovered that many of your 'duplicates' aren't, .

Not only that, but you suddenly realise (to your cost) that your collection is a lot further away from being complete than you realised