Ask almost all serious collectors and they'll believed to have found at least one "variation" at least once in their lives. Some range from slight differences in body color to the addition of markings that aren't supposed to be there, or even lack of markings where there are supposed to be markings. So when I received my shipment of Lionels today, immediately I could see the variations in color amongst them. People on social media were claiming that there were both light and dark versions of him, and I could see it for myself. There were some that looked like the palomino in the stock photo (though I will note that he is less orange in real life) where you can see the darker shading on the legs and others that had more of a darker overall almost chestnut look to them. I think what most variations people refer to are in actuality just the difference in an artist's skill. A good example of paint variations are these two bay Mirados from the Deluxe Stablemates Collections I received. The usual ones look like the dark red one on the bottom. The other has a weird yellow tinge to its body color. A repaint, possibly? These body color "variations" are common with stablemates. Another example are these Latigo Dun It models, one with a far lighter coat, the other with a coat almost as dark as Quill's grullo color. Again, I'm sure it's simply a variation amongst the artist's work in these cases. Breyer had true oops variations, like when they added boy bits to Kuchi (I mean with that name, isn't it obvious?) or making early releases a bit more detailed than later releases... a reason why some people go after RRs when they're first released, like how the first Zenyattas had prominent dappling and came in a white box. Later releases came in yellow boxes, were more red in color and had less dapples. I've also just realized that my Crystalline is a variation. She lacks the purple knee patch. She was from one of the first batches available before they temporarily sold out. Perhaps that's why? Maybe they realized they forgot the patch and corrected their mistake. Chances are it was probably just the artist forgetting to add it. I've seen it happen quite a few times where the artist forgets to add detailed markings. While no two Breyers are ever alike, extreme variations do exist. Being a collector myself, not just a seller, I know some people specifically look for those variations in regular runs, which is why I try to hand pick them whenever possible.
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