[Mccoypottery-talk] McCoy Panther

[david mcCoy]

Man you're killing me, my gut hurts from laughing.
Dave
--- BigBVideo@aol.com wrote:
> 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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