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Jul. 5th, 2005 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateSo what do you do when you're insanely bored on a national holiday? Go to Aardvark Antiques, obviously.
We didn't expect much except a nice walk on concrete, but there was a bunch of new stuff in. From a pile of *yawn* Boyds bears, an odd little gold critter stared out at me:
A Merrythought M-type, in the traditional gold mohair. The same make as this fella, but smaller (he's about 8 inches, sitting down) and older (from whenever the wishbone tag was held on the chest -- the poor bastard still had the plastic tag thing going through him). Ribbon and paper long gone. The dealer, who was asking book-plus for the B**** bears, wanted $7.00 for him.
Well okay.
(For those of you who are not bearheads, this is roughly the equivalent of finding a Beatles butcher cover at a thrift store in Mexico City.)
We didn't expect much except a nice walk on concrete, but there was a bunch of new stuff in. From a pile of *yawn* Boyds bears, an odd little gold critter stared out at me:
A Merrythought M-type, in the traditional gold mohair. The same make as this fella, but smaller (he's about 8 inches, sitting down) and older (from whenever the wishbone tag was held on the chest -- the poor bastard still had the plastic tag thing going through him). Ribbon and paper long gone. The dealer, who was asking book-plus for the B**** bears, wanted $7.00 for him.
Well okay.
(For those of you who are not bearheads, this is roughly the equivalent of finding a Beatles butcher cover at a thrift store in Mexico City.)