Horses have been with us for many years, visit the house of any horse enthusiast and I am sure you will find a figurine or brasses somewhere in the house. There are many types of horse collectables, the more popular types are figurines and horse brasses.
You can find horses brasses hanging from the walls in any antique shop, and they come in many different patterns, some are themed with animal characters, flowers, stars, circles have all been used.
You can even find horse brasses on ladies bags, even on leather belts. I still think they look better in the place where they are meant to be on the horses tack.
Models are popular horse collectibles, they range from toys that you would give to a child to fragile porcelain models, all are very collectible, you will find soldiers on horse back, horses in action and models of famous horses..
It is quite easy to create a collection of hundreds of these figurines, many collectors gather to show off their models, and even redesigning the models. You can find clubs where enthusiasts get together, many clubs run points systems, a record of the points earned for the participants horse is kept, and an award presentation is held at the end of the year.
There are live shows and there are postal shows, to enter a postal show the collector takes a photo of their model and sends it in for judging, the quality of the photo and the accuracy of the breed are what the judges are looking for.
Live shows are very popular, many of participants take along props for their displays, judges a looking for models in good condition, and for the correctness of breed..
The Internet is making it easy for people for all areas to take part in these competitions, participants submit a photo of their model for judging, and again the photos are judged on accuracy of the bread and quality of the photo..
These are just a couple examples of horse collectables that you will see the horse enthusiast collecting, the race enthusiast might be a collector of race programs
