Auction Items
Plush Stuffed Animals P-1: Starting at 7 silvers each Lot item P-1 is actually made of five identical stuffed toy bears. The top five bids for these cuddly friends will become their new owners. Though they are all toys, stuffed with warm and soft wool, each bear was stitched to look as close to the real animal as possible. Their furs are made with the softest dark brown mink while their muzzles and the pads of their paws are stitched with the gentlest tan chamois available to the Toymaker. Their eyes and noses are dark brown, highly-polished wooden buttons. Each bear is a king's foot and one half tall designed sit up on its back haunches by itself with its front paws held out for a hug. P-2: Starting at 7 silvers each Much as the stuffed bears of P-1, the wolves of P-2 come in a number of five where the top five bids will win one each. And as realistic as the bears are, the wolves are more so for there are crafted from actual wolf fur. A large dire wolf of pewter fur that had terrorized the farms local to Larmian was taken down by an ingenious trap devised by the Toymaker. He was allowed to keep the hide of the large beast which he has generously made into these wonderfully soft animals. The only other fur used came from downy snow hares and was used for the lupines' bellies and "socks" of their feet. Each of the five has brilliantly reflective yellow glass eyes and a nose of polished ebony. All of them stand approximately eleven inches from floor to eye and are almost twenty-four inches from nose to tail tip. Sculptures S-1: Starting at 8 gold Its legendary strength has tempted brave knights and great warriors, its power has taunted mighty mages, and stories of it have given children nightmares for generations the world round. Now the alluring mystery, alien beauty, and terrifying power of the Dragon has been captured in beeswax polished cardinal wood, as rich and dark as fresh blood. Each rough scale and ridge has been given individual careful attention as becomes the majesty of such a grand creature, until now it appears ready to come to life and fly from its pedestal. The sculpture stands approximately twenty inches tall; the Beast's long serpentine neck snaking up with its great head tilted back to roar at the heavens. Tooled yellowed ivory makes a pair of curled horns atop its skull and fills its open maw with curved fangs. The venerable Dragon measures a good king's foot across with its ragged and battle-wounded bat-like wings half unfurled. Sharpened claws of glittering gold tip all of the Beast's digits; its forelegs stretched out to shred the air in a rampant stance and its hind claws embedded deep into the rough, black granite base for purchase. S-2: Starting at 6 gold The forces of nature are wild and untamed and have not been shown more completely in art until now. A heavy branch of twisted and gnarled oak was the base for this sculpture of three running stags leaping over a log-crossed gorge. Sharp, chipped stones have been embedded in the wood along the sides and bottom of the chasm to heighten the realism of the scene that measures a king's foot at its tallest and a little over two feet long. The Toymaker's steady and nurturing hands have even sprouted of the oak the delicate ferns and brush of the forest between the placed rocks and cut-off trunks of carved hickory, maple, and oak trees back-dropping the diorama. Each of the bucks exudes the vigor of masculine strength in the ripple of their muscles, frozen forever in sculpture. Their leader's lean forelegs bunch with the force of his impact on the far side of the chasm and those of his comrades still stretch over. And such is the rest of their detailing that the scoring of the Toymaker's blade has molded the grain of the oak to flow with each buck's wind-swept shaggy hide. The three stags are, for the most part, chiseled free of their surroundings and anchored by only their front or hind hooves. Each sports a broad rack of horns, carved from real antler, and has been thoroughly smoothed and polished with beeswax to accentuate their separateness from the rougher surfaces of the rocky carved gorge and log. S-3: Starting at 9 silvers Lot Item S-3 is our Toymaker-Artist's first ever work in stone! The sculpture, in gray-veined pale marble, depicts the sensual, alluring, and mysterious eyes of some woman that obviously had been close to his heart. His passions for her have undeniably and divinely transferred through his tools into the immortal stone. The exquisite lines of detail around her grinning, hungry eyes are enough to send a tendril of thrill down the oldest man's spine. The Toymaker's skills with form and shade have blended the grain of the cool marble with the squinted corners of those eyes and the slightly laugh-scrunched bridge of her nose, down to the pert tip. Though the bust remains forever unfinished with areas untouched by tool and still rough, her eyes, a bit of attempted hair curled near their corners, and nose have been smoothed and perfected with such artistry as to hint of an enticing spirit hidden within the rock itself. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives & Other DMI Lists: http://islesofmyst.com/lists.php3
