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Here are answers to the commonly asked questions about where to resell Painted Ponies, and what their current value is:
When collectors choose to resell their Painted Ponies, we recommend doing so on eBay. There is also a Facebook group, which was set up by Painted Ponies collectors and is not monitored by The Trail of Painted Corporate Office, where you can offer your Painted Ponies for sale. Here is a link to that Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PaintedPoniessellbuyswapauction
To find the current perceived value of your Painted Ponies, we suggest searching on eBay for the same figurine with a similar edition number. If you have an eBay account, you can look up what that particular figurine has sold for recently, and that will give you an even more accurate perceived value.
Christmas item #4034641, when will it be available ?
Christmas 2013 Painted Ponies - figurines and ornaments - will be available in-stores and on our official store in early August.
Noticed on new ponies it was mentioned they are made of "stone resin". What is that compared to plain resin?
In the "recipe" for creating fine art resin ground stone is one of the ingredients, and sometimes we choose to highlight this fact.
I recently won "Indian Summer" at a silent auction and was amazed when I opened the box that there are no eyes painted on it! Is that idea part of this design or a flaw?
In our desire to give artists a "blank" canvas to paint, the horse forms we created did not have eyes sculpted into them at first. This gave artists an option they could explore. Eyes certainly added a realistic feature, but that wasn't always what artists wanted. They felt that sometimes could eyes were a distraction. This is how the Hopi artist who created "Indian Summer" felt. He didn't want it to be too life-like, so he did not paint in eyes.
i have a 7" figurine 2e11006 how do I look up its value?
Here's hoping this response is read by others who have written to ask about the value of their Ponies. Please read the FAQ section of our website, where you will find our advice that you should check on eBay to see if there is a Pony for sale like yours with comparable qualities: rarity, demand, edition number, retired, artist signed. At this time, this is the most reliable indicator.
Will the third place winner, "Spot", be available for collectors?
This is a design from the competition that we think could translate very well into a figurine.
Do you have any banks for sale?
There has been some internal discussion about Painted Pony banks, and we are working with some clever designs that might work. But we are not far enough along to say for sure what will happen, or when.
On your website you have a section where you can download, print and design your own Painted Pony and send it in throughout the year. In that section you say that you might turn the design into a Painted Pony if it catches the attention of The Trail of Painted Ponies. I was wondering if there was something specific that you look for when you look at those designs?
Fair question to ask, but one that is hard to answer. Originality. Excellence of execution. Emotional content. Difference from designs already created. Will it translate well into a 6" figurine? Will it appeal to collectors. There is a lot of subjectivity at work with each of these considerations, especially the last: Is it magical.
After reading the contest rules put forth for this last competition I am curious over one of the winners.
Below were the rules and designs specified to use in the contest. I did not see the design of the native theme "Blood Brothers"anywhere in the choices. Perhaps I missed the part where you can desgn your own pose. I can see perhaps it making some honorable mention but to disregard your own rule and slap everyone else that DID follow the designs? I can see submitting the design during the year as a simple submission but it had no place in the competition. It is fine work to be sure but you set the conditions and everyone else followed it. It also reminds me of an earlier contest that a horses head and shoulders emerged from an ocean wave. While an interesting concept, that also disregarded the rules of using the whole design. Again honorable mention or a simple during the year submission would have been appropriate. Guess I am traditional.
You make a thoughtful point, and we will pay closer attention to our language in our next art competition. Our thinking with this one was that artists were entitled to modify existing forms, they just couldn't create completely new and different forms, or use some other company's forms. It's our understanding that this was what the artist did: modify the walking horse form.
Will the ornament winners be posted soon?
Yes, we will be announcing the top five vote-getters in the ornament contest on our July website update.
Will the Native Heritage winner (Blood Brothers) of the recent National Art Competition be made into a figurine? I would love to have it!
As would a lot of other collectors we have heard from. While I cannot promise, if I were a betting man....
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