Here you have a prisoner without any markings. I don´t think it was on the list in the thread Maureen posted.
And I found this fake also. I think he could be populair in prison with that red lipstick?
Lia,I know, this is not the one you mean, but I like to show this special, genuine smurf with axe from Bully.
I don`t have the hand etched version.
Lia
Martin,Great poster Andre.
You are right on a couple of things: no Bully molds after fallen ice skater and no supers at all.
My interpretation of things with the license to make smurfs is :
1965-1973: Schleich
1973-1980 : Bully
1977-present day : Schleich
I think your poster is from 1977.
The numbering seems to indicate which company made the molds:
Top numbering starting with kicker 2 are all BULLY molds
Bottom numbering are all SCHLEICH molds.
Not sure why it starts with kicker as the quack was the first made Bully mold....
The only thing I am not sure about is that when in the period 1973-1976 only Bully smurfs were released...did the Schleich molds get released with a Bully mark??? Probably not as I have never seen one..obviously all the Bully molds after 1980 had the name Bully scratched off and Schleich put on instead...maybe they didn't do it for technology reasons I don't know.
The most beautiful molds are the Bully protos that were made to replace the existing Schleich molds but were never released. They are much better than Schleich's and it is a tragedy they did not get to the market. For example: prisoner, normal, papa, drummer etc.....Christy has some on her site and also pics of others.
The only 2 that did make it from Bully AFTER the original Schleich mold was on the market were smurfette and Astro.
Hope this helps
Martin
Schleich displayed the Bully mold smurfette in their dealer catalogues in a stand with keyhanger. I guess they could have sold at least a few of them until they may have replaced it with the Schleich smurfette.and these versions with handetched Bully was sold 1975. I think Bernd has 1974 in his catalogue, but then I would like to see these versions with only Peyo C on them also????
I guess these are the first versions of these if I understood you correct Martin. Eventhough it says 72 on both Johan and Pewitt and nothing on Gargamel.
And this Smurfette version was only sold by Bully, right?
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