[Mccoypottery-talk] McCoy Panther

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Ok Group... no laughing please, but today at Brimfield I bought the ugliest 
McCoy panther I've ever seen. It's not so much the panther that's ugly, but 
what's growing out of his back. I was drawn to him because he's got a gold 
finish, which I had not seen. Not the Sunburst Gold or Golden Brocade... but a 
smooth finish like the 23k gold paint, although it's not marked as such. The 
planter cavity is filled with what apprears to be some sort of green florist clay, 
but it's hard as a rock. In the center is a short metal tube like he was a 
lamp, but there is no other hole for the cord to come out. But then... his most 
noticible feature... he has the most hideous flowers sticking out his back. They 
are... well... I just don't know what they are. They are embedded in the hard 
clay material. They are some sort of heavy paper or fiber flowers that appear 
to be heavily shellacked. I was thinking that this was just a mess someone 
made on their own, and was trying to figure out if I could wrench them or cut 
them out of the clay material and dig they clay out. But then my friend said 
"maybe it's supposed to be that way." That put my plans for deforesting the 
panther on hold. I suppose anything is possible, and it WAS made in the 50's.... 
when lapses in taste were not uncommon. So I paid the guy and asked him to 
double bag it so no one would see me carrying him around in that state.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing? Or is this the result of a craft project 
gone tragically bad?

I hesitate to put him with my other panthers and lions until I figure this 
out. I'm afraid he might be attacked.

Walter