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Here are three very attractive, very crude porcelain ponies in excellent condition for your viewing pleasure: On the left is a U-3 with the OB logo embossed on the crown. Elton's book lists this color as Brown, but the overall mottling and color gradation is way better than that. A shallow slice off the firing base edge is likely from manufacture. The dark area on the base is extra glaze, not damage. The rest is mint. In the middle is another U-3 with mottled and uneven glaze also embossed with the OB logo. This color is listed as Reddish-Orange/Mustard and appears to be less common. The (beauty) spot on the side of the dome is where another insulator touched it before firing and left some glaze that was then hardened during firing. The insulator is otherwise mint. On the right is a thick and heavy U-73 No Name Pittsburg {MLOD} with two small glaze flakes at the base keeping it from mint. This one also appears to have been touched by another insulator prior to firing, as can be seen in the top two wire ridges in the right photo. The color is listed as Caramel, but this one looks more like Peanut Butter to me. It is exceptionally crude with the side mold lines clearly carved off, glazed-over dents and splits all around, and an out-of-round base. Please click on View Original, above, for even more crudity. Asking $55 for the group shipped to a US address. Withdrawn. |