Holy Herd

The Holy Herd collection was crafted by an artist named Pete Apsit. Pete Apsit had an interest in sculpting from a very young age. This led him to the University of Southern California as an art major in the early 1960,s. He then did lots of work sculpting fountains and other free lance designs.

He was then discovered by Chi Van, the founder of Character Collectibles. Character collectibles served as the foundation for what we know as Vangroup today. Van had seen an artist selling animals at a craft fair and he set out on a mission to find an artist that could develop a line inspired by the animals he had seen. It is said that Van did not have Pete Apsit's contact information so he called every Apsit in the phone book all over California until he found him.