This is a pair of Wind Djinn painted by David Sutherland III.  They are from Dragontooth Miniatures.

Image:Dragontooth - Demons3.jpg - Lost Minis Wiki

Can anyone please help me appraise them?  I've had them for a while.  Are they uncommon?
















Regards,

Steve

Nah.  At $10-15 each, it's not worth the effort.  I think I will dust them off, then find a spot in the briefcase foam mount and stow them.

I have others, as well - lizard dudes mounted on some really neat-looking saurian guys that look like giant iguanas with horns.  Yeah, stow them all.  

I have miniatures that Dave sculpted that never got issued.  They never existed as more than two dozen nice-looking lead figs and some pics in a long-forgotten magazine.  But I am gonna take the long view.

Hell, I'm 53 years old.  By the time the burgers and the bad knees take their toll and I croak at what, 67?  It will be 2027.  In another 14 years not many alive will even remember who Sutherland was.  Or they'll all be in rest homes themselves, waiting to croak.

That's when my son will open the briefcases.  Two of them.  One is a three-layer cake that's been accumulating since the late 1970s, the other was one I started when I got all those miniatures from David in 1997.  I will leave my son a note detailing the contents in case he cares what happens to them.  He'll be 32 then, with a wife and kids of his own.  Who knows what he'll think is important?  

Maybe they'll be worth something then - and he'll need the money.

Maybe they'll be worth nothing, but he'll use them to teach his kids how to roleplay.  That would be cool.

Maybe they'll wind up on a Goodwill shelf... or a landfill.  Some lucky kid will pop some tags and get a monster for his collection!  

Steve

I think your problem would be provenance.  With provenance, I bet you are looking at a few hundred dollars for these.  Without, who knows?  

Mike B.

They could also be the DT Amphibeans: Image:Dragontooth - Amphibeans1.jpg - Lost Minis Wiki

Hopefully Steve will post some pics and we can sort this one out.

Thanks for the pics, Steve!

They are DT Saurians (Image:Dragontooth - Saurian2.jpg - Lost Minis Wiki) and they have been heavily modified with the additions of horns and accessories.

In the close-up pics, it's obvious the first one (with the red javelin quiver) is an homage to the illustration on Page 3 of the Holmes blue book.

They are very cool pieces, for sure. The minis themselves would be in the uncommon to rare range, and the coolness factor is right up there because they are painted by DCS. Again, the paint jobs are nice, solid work, but not to the same level that's common today.

Hard to put a value on them, though, especially without provenance. If you do have provenance or if the minis bear DCS's initials, that would help tremendously.

You could sell them individually or as a group, although I think you could get more individually. Starting price? I'd say $30 to $50 individually, $100-120 as a group. DT collectors and DCS collectors could definitely make bidding interesting. With provenance, you could start higher if so inclined.

Either way, I know I would be interested.

Please post more pics of your collection when you have a chance.

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Thanks, Centurion!  

Hi Zenopus,

Thanks for pointing people to my post - the more folks who get to see them, the better.

Intrigued by your other two posts on your blog, I decided to contact Tom Loback (Mr. Dragontooth) to see if he could shed any light on the subject. Here is his reply, which I also posted on your Holmes' Saurians entry:

Hi Tom,

How kind of you to remember. The Saurian Mounted Champion was sculpted by Steve Tofano and added to the Saurian & Amphibian line which I created and for which I did most of the sculpting. As I recall, Steve came up with the idea for the piece himself and the line drawing in Dragon Magazine came much later and was based on Steve's piece - I believe the editor at the time actually asked if that was ok with me. I don't recall who did the drawing in the mag, but we certainly had almost all our pieces done in line drawings by Mike Gilbert in our catalogs when first released.
Hope this edifies somewhat.

Best, Tom Loback