Watch list: Bunny Money #2

These guys from the seller Crib Point Antiques caught my fancy too. They're all SylvaC rabbits. I prefer Thumper at the bottom but as things goes he never sold.

Above: c.1940 SylvaC rabbit #3097 (sold for $49.99)

Above: c.1937 SylvaC rabit #1302 (sold for $97.55)

Above: c.1950 SylvaC rabit #5290 (relisted $?)

The top two bunnies remind me why I could never have a rabbit as a pet. There's just something so perpetually sad about rabbits.They just seem so fragile & defenseless. I can blame television to some degree for shaping my attitude towards rabbits. Was anyone else out there subjected to those tear-jerker video clips from Watership Down that featured the the dying bunny set to the tune of Art & Garfunkel's Bright eyes? I could never bring myself to ever watch the entire movie. The ABC in Australia used to play the trailer practically every afternoon during prime time children's TV when I was a kid. It devastated me every time. It still devastates me. I just watched it again now on You Tube & I'm a complete mess. Brings back every dead pet / friend /relative experience you thought you'd dealt with. I dare you to watch it.

Thanks to Kinder Trauma for this appropriately reworked version of Edward Munch's The Scream.