[Mccoypottery-talk] McCoy Panther

[ken mcdaneld]

 Walt, sounds like your panther may have made it to Woodstock, and survived.
You now may have a original piece of history. Enjoy, Ken.


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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
>
>
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