Emails From You

Below are some wonderful emails from people discovering this Stuart web site for the first time.


K. MOODY wrote:
I'm new here- can't tell you how thrilled I was to find your site. I am another one who played with Stuart figures as a kid. I have one lonely brown walking horse and til now, he was my only link to the Stuart company. I would like to find at least one of each pose horse in any color. (The colors I remember are marbled silver, brown and cream, but I will be happy with ANY color.) I have never found any for sale anywhere, even though I collect model and playset horses as a hobby. I have just launched an ad on your trade page. I would really like to find these horses. Again, thanks for putting this site together!

D.B. ARVIDSON wrote:
Hi Lizabeth, I just found a site called those Elusive Stuarts. I was AMAZED!!!!!!! Fabulous Site! I Did not know Stuarts still existed. I had some runners and some rearing horses when I was a kid and playing with them was some of my fondest childhood memories. I would love to get some for my kids, do you have some to sell or know where I can get some? Again thanks for putting on the site, and please let me know!!!!!! Thanks

P. FORD wrote:
Just discovered your site. I still have several Stuarts that I played with as a child - bought at the local 5 & 10 for next to nothing. Started e-baying, saw how expensive Stuarts were and got mine out to sell. I just could not bring myself to part with them, bought some, sold some and as a result have doubled my personal herd!!!! - I fear that it is still growing!! Hay for stuarts is pretty cheap here in indiana so, I will probably keep them and perhaps add to the herd. Thanks for your site. I learned a lot and will I am sure view it again and again. Have some to sell so may contact buyers on your page. This is a terrible disease.

K. KANE wrote:
As a youngster I became an avid collector of Stuart horses (late 50's-early 60's). I had a number of these and in the 7th grade, wrote to the company and was surprised to receive a boxful of loose horses in wonderful colors. I still have all of them including my first, bought at a variety store in Little Rock, AR in 1958. I remember coming back from overseas in 1959 and begging my parents to take me shopping for more! Would love to receive more information and am happy to have found the website!

T. WINGERTER wrote:
I just saw your website for the 1st time, & I loved it. When I was a kid in the early '60's, I could not live without my tan Stuart pioneer. I used him on the Stuart horse, sure, but I used him more in playing with my other toys. For instance, he hunted MPC tigers from behind the wheel of a mini-Tonka jeep. He could sit, stand, hold a gun and kinda looked like he was driving. When I would misplace him, I got very upset. Eventually my father solved this problem by stopping by Stuart headquarters in Ohio on one of his business trips, bringing home a whole bag of those pioneers, which one of the managers at Stuart gave him for free! I still have some of the pioneers from that bag...[plus Stuarts I've found on eBay, etc.]. Thanks for the memories!

J. JORDAN wrote:
I just found your web site on the Stuart ranch sets. I must share this with someone who will understand. As a young child I spent most of my time playing quietly by myself in the back yard. My favorite toys were my two Stuart horses, a red walking horse and a black rearing horse. A few months ago I started thinking about those horses and how much they meant to me . I wandered into eBay and started looking at plastic horses. Imagine my surprise to not only find these horses, at some incredible prices, but that they were actually collectibles now. I was amazed that anyone else, especially people my age would even remember these toys! I am so pleased to have found your site and learned that I am not alone. I am attempting to capture a pair of those gorgeous horses to set on my TV and look at, and perhaps reflect on days spent imagining the wild west with the help of my Stuart horses and rider.Thank you.

G. E. McCONNELL wrote:
Liz, you have no idea how thrilling this message was to me! I had a lot of these as a child (they were absolutely my favorite toys) and after I moved out at 18, my 3 year old sister lost them all by the time I went to go get them at 20. I have looked for them at flea markets, antique stores, toy shows, and had never found any. I didn't even know what the brand was. I have looked for 30 years. To have information on them and a possibility of finding some I can get is exciting beyond any words I can express. My father bought these for me as a child and Sunday marks the 2nd anniverary of his passing, so the toys were desired just that much more this week. Thank You ever so much! God Bless You-You Have Greatly Brightened My Day! Now to order the magazine-a tee shirt-& & &

J. SIKORA wrote:
I just found your website this week. I was SO thrilled -- you can't imagine. Like so many other people who played with these wonderful horses as children I had such fond memories of them but never dreamed they were so collectible now or that there is so much information available. I still have two from all those years ago -- a beautiful walking silver one and a really chewed up white rearing one (I didn't do the chewing!). I always treasured them but didn't even know the name of the manufacturer until I first explored eBay this week. I was actually trying to find a Marx Roy Rogers Rodeo Ranch playset and one website led to another until I discovered yours. I really enjoyed yours, by the way, and added it to my list of favorites. I am also planning to get a copy of your article. Isn't it funny how we are so nostalgic for those long-ago toys? Thanks again for the wonderful memories your website brought back for me!

GARY wrote:
I have been collecting Stuarts for a long time, and have a sizable collection. It's great to see all of this at your site, and see other people who LOVE these figures. I book marked your site. The job you did on the article is AWSOME!!! Hope I can contribute to the cause.

C. THIABALD wrote:
Lizabeth...... Thank you soooooo much for the web site. I don't feel so alone looking for the little horses I spent so much time playing with as a child. I really didn't think there were any other people like me. Thank You. thank you, thank you.

CYNDI D. wrote:
I spent a lovely hour reading about Stuarts and just in general enjoying your site! I book marked it as a favorite, and will visit again soon! I was SO surprised to find these horses were collectible! I had TONS of them when I was a kid. I think you small horse collectors are the friendliest and most helpful of any group I have met through eBay! I have had more e-mails with information, and more general assistance with this group of horses than any other auction I have ever run! I appreciate it and thank you so much!!!

K. HILDEBRANT wrote:
I love the Stuart web site! It's so incredible to connect with other Stuart lovers after all these years and learn something about my favorite childhood toy. These horses have been my "friends" as long as I can remember. I grew up in an old farmhouse and we really lived in it. Our living room had an old worn-out green carpet over which we put an oval white rug to cover the worn center (we couldn't afford new carpeting). I fenced the corners of the room where the green carpet showed "pastures". The white rug had patterns in it; two or three concentric ovals with squares and connecting lanes between the ovals. Although the family dog wasn't allowed on the rug, the esteemed horses were. Many a horse race was run on those ovals, along with jumping, training, and even the odd battle, though the latter usually happened in the "cliffs" (furniture), which is also where the wild herds roamed. I never dreamed that any could be found after all these years!

L. PANDO wrote:
Your site has floored me. For years I've had a few of these marvelous items. Didn't know what they were till the eBay auction identified them as Stuart. I got them in the 50s when I was a kid. Saved them all these years. I hope there's a way I can get more. It's great to find fellow collectors.

K. TATUM wrote:
I am so glad to hear from you. Thank you for taking the time to clue me in on your web site. My story sounds like the other testimonials on your web site. These were my favorite toys as a child. All my allowance went to buying them on Saturdays at the 5 & dime store. They are legendary in my family because I made my little brothers play with me and my horses until they were old enough to rebel! I had a box of at least 50. Although my Mom saves many things, she did not save these, and I've been looking for them for years. I wasn't even sure what they were called, but have been searching eBay for a few months sporadically for them. I knew I'd know them by sight. There they were, and I was certainly astounded to watch the price climb so high. Hopefully I will be able to find some now that I know where to look. Thanks again for contacting me!

J. T. DOMINY wrote:
I appreciate you taking the time to write since I am new at this endeavor. I too got into bidding because of a childhood memory. Like you, I had a Roy Rogers set that was my pride and joy. Until you contacted me, I had not seen even a picture of my set for over 30 years. Over the years I have thought about the hours I spent playing with my set and have tried to explain to my wife how much it had meant to me. For the first time I was able to show her a picture of my set. I got my Post cereal premium set in 1953 in return for a few Post cereal box tops and very little money. I had Nellybelle (metal jeep) in addition to the figures you show on your website. The Trigger in my set was "palomino." When I left for college in 1964, it marked the beginning of the end for my prized set. In the years that followed, I had a score of young nieces and nephews that spent time growing up in my mother's house. What finally happened to my set is a mystery. I still hope that it might turn up in some of my mother's possessions someday. Even if I never manage to replace it, I now have a picture to look at from time to time and think about fond memories. Replacing my original set is my only goal. I do not plan to become an avid collector, but there is a strange need in me to have another set. I really don't know what has caused this sentimental side of me to emerge, possible the death of Roy Rogers or the birth of my first grand child. Any assistance you can offer in my search would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

R. PARKER wrote:
Thanks so much for all the info!!! I'm not actively adding to my collection but I've loved these horses for years and it's as if they disappeared from the face of the earth! It's only been in recent months, on eBay, that I've seen them as "Stuarts." I started accumulating them in the late 1950s, early 60s, and played with them until I was in high school! The neighbor kid had more than I because she inherited her big sister's collection; she still has the whole thing, every bridle, saddle and coonskin cap, I'm sure. I plan to e-mail her with the info you sent!

B. REDNOUR wrote:
I can't believe that I actually found your web site dedicated to the Stuart plastic cowboys! I am lucky that my folks never threw anything away. The last few years, I would go to their house and do a little more "prospecting." Once a collector at a toy show showed me Stuart stuff, I realized that they were also a part of my childhood. I even found several of my original cowboys and a silver pack horse. Due to two lucky scores at a toy show and a Toy Shop auction, I acquired all the Stuart stuff except for the hatchet, coonskin cap, travois and cereal premium Nellybelle and cardboard houses. Anyway, I was impressed with the very nice layout and production of your web site. The high point has to be your picture of the Roy Rogers group in the original box (Texas TV Rancher). I hope you continue to update your site.

C. SWIFT wrote:
Hi! Thank you for putting together a website on Stuart toys!!! There really is not much out there. I remember having a white and a black Stuart horse when I was 2 or 3 years old. They were lost or tossed in a house/location move we made when I was 3 1/2 years old...... I don't know anything about them other than remembering even at that young age their beautiful detail ......enough so that I have hunted for them ever since and was finally able to get them back through Ebay at the age of 45 !!!!! Thank you!

C.W. ALMARO wrote:
Thanks for the web site. I played with these toys as a kid. I don't think they cost very much, probably less than a dollar for a horse, rider, saddle, bridle, hat and gun. They came in little sets. I had the pack horses as well as the Indians and cowboys. I'd love to get a pack horse set again. As all good parents do, they threw away the left over toys broken or not when we said we were finished with them at the age of 18. Now we would like to have them back now that we are in our forties. Last year I lucked out and got two frontier men, 2 hats, 1 saddle, 1 bridle and two horses for a reasonable price. Since then, I've seen a man & horse set with accessories go for a $100. A little out of my league. Anyway, thanks for your site where I can at least look at the pictures of my toys from the past.