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It is always a good idea to read collectible books to widen your understanding of horse figurine collecting. The more you know, the greater the appreciation of the experience of horse collecting. It also may enhance your ability to be aware of the financial side of collecting: horse figurines can be worth more than you pay for them or worth less than you might pay for them. It may give you a history of a specific horse figurine. Magazines and books about collectibles can have interesting stories about people who collect the same figurines that you collect.

Collecting mementos is not to be undervalued. I have a wonderful horse figurine I bought on vacation and every time I look at it I remember that wonderful time I had. Horse figurines, and carousel horse figurine make wonderful horse gifts. It's fun to shop for a unique horse figurine that you can give as a gift. The horse gift can be original yet fit in with the horse collection and hobby of the person to whom you are giving the gift.

Did you know there is a word for people who collect figurines? It is "abrakophile": one whose fond of collecting knickknacks or trinkets. The bottom line about being a horse figurine collector is that it is a hobby that is fun and interesting. Everyone has one reason or more for wanting to have collectibles. Horse figurines are wonderful animals to collect because they are affordable and yet can be valuable. They are memorabilia yet art. Horse Figurines represent travels taken. They have real world importance. And, collecting ahorse figurine is just plain satisfying!

Collecting horse figurines can be a rewarding experience. There are so many kinds and colors of horses that can be reflected as porcelain horses, porcelain horse figurines, pewter horse figurines and crystal horse figurines. If you love carousel horse figurines, you'll find figurines that reflect these as well. They are colorful and its the medium of porcelain that makes them look great.

Knowing interesting facts about horses can make your horse figurine collection come alive. For instance, there are approximately 75 million horses in the world. China has the most number of horses at 10 million. Horses can live a long time. The oldest horse recorded is an English barge horse who lived in the 1700's. He lived to be 62 years old! There are a couple of other "oldest" statistics: the oldest pony lived to be 54 and the oldest horse to give birth had a foal at 42 years old. As you collect your horse figurines and crystal horse figurines, here is an interesting statistic: the longest mane on record was 18 ft. from California. Although horses tend to be around 1000 lbs. there is on record from the 1800's a horse that weighed 3,360 lbs.Did you know there are two words for fear of horses: Hippophobia and equinophobia. However, Hippocrates means "horse master". When you buy horse figurines, porcelain horse figurines or crystal horse figurines you may be interested to know that there is a codified positioning for horse statues: both front legs in the air means the rider died in battle; one front leg in the air means the person died from wounds in the battle; if the horse has four legs on the ground the rider didn't die in battle, but by natural causes.

It is believed that the earliest horses were about ten to twenty inches tall, although about three million years ago horses looked like horses of today. We don't know where horses originated, but we do know that during the Ice Age horses populated all of the continents but Australia. Did you know that peoples fingernails are made of the same protein as horses hooves. As you add a porcelain horse figurine to your collection, you may be interested in some of the many colors of horses. These can be wonderfully represented in porcelain horses. Brown horses are actually brown with black mane and tail. Bay is a deep golden or resh-brown with black tail, main and legs. Black is a all black. Chestnut is golden brown with mane and tail either lighter brown or deeper brown. Dapple grey is grey with lighter dappling. Gray is interesting because it has a white coat, but it's skin is black (like polar bears) and its coat gets lighter as it ages. There are some interesting facts and terminology about horses. All racehorses in the U.S. have birthdays on the first of January? And, a horse is considered to be an adult at four years old. At this age a male horse is called a stallion and a female horse is called a mare. A father and a mother horse is called a sire and dam, respectively. A Male foal is a colt, a female, a filly. Horses can live to be 25 yrs. old. However, as I said before there is a 62 yr. old horse on record. Like so many other animals, there are superstitions regarding horses. Grey horses are lucky, piebalds are considered to be unlucky. Therefore, you may want to collect grey porcelain horse figurines. These barely touch the surface of horse information. There is much to interest you with facts and descriptions that can make your collecting horse figurines, crystal horse figurines, pewter horse figurines and porcelain horse figurines come alive.