{"id":1896,"date":"2014-05-10T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:24:21","slug":"man-on-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Man on a Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great piece with an even better story behind it.<\/p>\n

There’s no way I could tell the story and do it any justice. So here’s the great story directly from Arlene Wagner (Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum<\/span><\/a><\/span>):<\/p>\n

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“After the \u00a0antique shops closed on Portabello Road in London, George and I went pubbing with David Levi and Rik Gijsen. \u00a0After a few, the guys were all feeling good and one antique dealer asked Rik if he was interested in buying a nutcracker he had with him. \u00a0Said it would be 100 pounds since it was just “half a horse” \u00a0whereas a whole horse would be about 500. \u00a0A bit of dickering went on, and Rik agreed to buy “half a horse” without seeing what he was getting. \u00a0Well, indeed it is just that, the horse’s whole head and the rider’s R arm is missing!! \u00a0I have kept this thing all these years laughing each time I see it, and remembering the good times we used to have antiquing with Rik. \u00a0 I think it is time to have it repaired!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The picture shows what I believe is a donkey, but to go with the story, I think you could make it into a horse!! \u00a0 \u00a0Arlene<\/em>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So I did just that. Sticking to the story, I added a horse’s head and tail to this piece, stabilized and repaired the cracks, carved him new arms, and gave him some rope to fit his new role as a horse rider.<\/p>\n

The pictures below show what the piece looked like when it came in missing all its pieces and parts. I also included a picture of what it is supposed to look like in regards to him riding a donkey then what it looks like now all converted over to a horse.<\/p>\n

This was a very challenging piece to do, but the story behind it made it fun.<\/p>\n

Arlene is thrilled with the piece and can’t wait for Rik to see it when he visits her this July.<\/p>\n

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Man on a Donkey (Original)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The shop still has a steady flow of repairs coming through.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for some more really great pieces!<\/p>\n

—– Brandon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great piece with an even better story behind it. There’s no way I could tell the story and do it any justice. So here’s the great story directly from Arlene Wagner (Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum):   “After the \u00a0antique shops closed on Portabello Road in London, George and I went pubbing with David Levi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,79],"tags":[127,310,303,51,58,71,306,98,309],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving","category-restorations","tag-carved-wood-nutcracker","tag-carving","tag-figural-nutcracker","tag-hand-carved","tag-leavenworth-nutcracker-museum","tag-nutcracker-restoration","tag-restoration","tag-vintage-nutcracker","tag-wood-carving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}