Gashapon

Thanks Etruscan and Ms. Melody! The Masters figurine isn’t it, Etruscan, I did see that one… one from a company called Rosenthal I found is similar, but not it. This one was red and white (like the Masters and a little the Rosenthal ones), had a more matte finish if I’m remembering it right, and like the Rosenthal one was sculpted swimming in vallisneria. I remember the grass as being molded separate from the fish and metal/porcelain base; when they shattered the grass was metal strips, which had supported the fish. It had a wooden platform under the base but it isn’t marked, I still have that and it fits a lap dragon almost just right. I can’t get it if I found it anyhow, but I’d love to find out what it was for someday.

Thanks also Ms. Melody, I’d found the ebay figures (I go there a lot just to look for images of things, like it was a search engine). Unfortunately I can’t do anything now, I haven’t been able to get the surgery I need to drive or to find any job at all doing whatever, so yeah not even a gift for my daughter here except for a cheesy handpainted shirt I made. I just thought to enjoy other’s from afar, like with the pebbles and baby poads. I know not so many will love goldfish but I think they make many kinds of animals, along with anime characters and suchlike.

Thanks to Ms. Melody’s wondrous kindness and generosity I now have 2 Yujin goldfish! Yay! I’m still gushing over them.

And after several years of intermittent searching, I finally have a name for the destroyed figurine! It’s ‘The Golden Carp’ by William Kazmar for Franklin Mint. So now I can replace it one day.

Today was a happy day.