Okay I know what I will be doing later....sniffing Praying Smurfs
Waaaaay too much info Dyar, some things you have to never admit to.
Nice grad smurf Attom, the originals of these smurfs really are quite difficult to find. Up until about three years ago they were always very expensive to buy and then a box of them was discovered and sold on Ebay. Many auctions for just the No. 1 Grad and the Grad Smurfette, I seem to remember maybe as many as fifty all at the same time. Prices dropped after this but have been steadily rising ever since but with the huge amounts of fakes around lately it becomes so hard.
I think I actually have all the fakes now and do intend to do a much bigger section on Blue Imps about these fakes and how to tell real from fake, very similar to Osi-Schlumpf but obviously in English. I will also be looking into the many repaints on the market these days as well asthese also seem to be getting worse.