[saussard*be]

hi everyone
here some picture of a part of my stock for passion


**** smurf passion 2005 on 24 april ****

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more

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and more

[naish510]

wow o want that all !!! i collect displays and stickers etc .... one word : EVERYTHING

[saussard*be]

hi
hoooooooooo yes
I must go have that in my stock

are you coming to passion !!!!
see you later
xavier

[naish510]

ye soff course i will go !!! i'm in vacantion for a whole week to prepare myself !!!!

[Raresmurf]

Hi Xavier,

If you don't mind me asking, Please would you be so kind as to give us a nice little insight into how you started collecting/reselling and how you came about all that stock - did it cost a lot?

hi
hoooooooooo yes
I must go have that in my stock

are you coming to passion !!!!
see you later
xavier

[saussard*be]

hi
well ....
when I was 3 years my mom buy some smurf ...
then they go in a box ...
more than 15 years later, when my daughter was 1 year
my mother fine the box with the smurf back !!!!

what's a big surprise
at this moment when we go walking on the fleemarcket we fine some smurfs ... then I was go to a store in brussels and the seller tell me "do you know, there is a catolgue of the smurf !"
and VOILA my story now it 8 years that I collect smurf
for my stock .....
I meet 1 person ,he working with PEYO in the years 80'
and I meet this personne over 1 years ago, he tell me
that he have a lot of smurf stuff
can I see that
yes ! GREAT
and now in the month novembre he will sold out all

we talk and we talk
and at the finish I buy all him stock
many many €€€€€€€
but when we love we don't tell about money
ONLY LOVE SMURF ......

...
xavier

[Guest]

Didn't Bernard's mother from the shop in Gallerie Louise used to know Peyo? Was she the one who got Peyo to get the figurines made by Schleich and Bully?

[saussard*be]

hi karen
you talk about ChouChou (odette)
she is a great person
she the first in the the years 70' to sell smurf in brussels
she know allof the smurf ,she live with the smurf
she is a very very great personnage in the life of smurf

everyone must go to her shop and say that he come from my part

take a look at

www.chouchou.be

[Guest]

Yes she wrote me a letter last summer so it would be nice to meet her. I met Bernard and he told me about his mother. Also my friend Val from England has been to dinner with them and she told me about Odette and Peyo knowing each other. Will Odette be at Schtroumpf Passion?

[saussard*be]

yes odette she there on passion


xavier

[Pitufo]

hi karen
you talk about ChouChou (odette)
she is a great person
she the first in the the years 70' to sell smurf in brussels
she know allof the smurf ,she live with the smurf
she is a very very great personnage in the life of smurf

Hi!!!!!!!!!Travelling around this fantastic forum, I´ve just found a topic I had not read, about a collector called Odette...I have felt a great emotion when I have read her relation with PEYO...


I must say, that she was one of the persons who enlivened to me to go on collecting smurfs...I visited her pretty pretty pretty shop about six years ago...I was on holidays in Belgium and Netherlands, and the last day, before going to the airport, I went there to spend all the money I had not spent in the travel... As most of you know it´s really imposible to find smurfs in Spain, so my collection was stopped for some years...I arrived "CHOU CHOU", and asked to the employee about smurfs. I said to her that I was a collector...Ah...it was fantastic...She began to show me smurfs I never had seen, and to speak about them...She was an old collector and explain to me that it was interesting to collect all the regular smurfs and after to begin with variations ( I didn´t know anything about variations, about catalogues, about other collectors)…I bought her some smurfs and when I arrived home, I knew I was going to continue collecting smurfs, thanks to this kind lady….She sent me a kind congratulations each christmas...

Last april I visited CHOUCHOU the day before PASSION, and she was not there, but her son and his wife...And the only smurfs I saw there,were normals and not rare smurfs...Do anybody know something about her? Is she collecting smurfs still?


PS: Thanks Xavier...You were the person that said to me her address...

[Guest]

Odette was at Passion in 2005, I think she talked to Rachel a few times. I have not had any further contact with her. I know when I went to the shop there wasn't that many smurfs there on display, just a few on the wall behind the door and the new ones, but then Bernard started pulling out large trays from behind the counter!