As you may know Schleich started with the polkadot boxes in 1995. But already in 1996 they changed the colours on all the house, cottages, farm, windmill and Gargamels castle. So the boxes were only made for one year. But some are not that rare because they were used many years after.
There is one box that I have been looking for many years now and never seen on any collectors website, neither on ebay before. Only in the catalogue. I thought once this was a box they did not use because they anyway should change the colours and had so many of the old boxes so they did never made it. But I have seen it on a youtube clip of a danish collection, so then I knew it was sold and existed.
If you compare with the 1995 farm box which you see sometimes on ebay, I would say you could find 30 of those boxes and only one of this one.
My guess is that Schleich, like today sometimes, had already boxes to use for the windmill and therefore had no need to make new. And when they made new windmills in yellow material they started using those instead. ??
Or that Schleich did not made many new windmills in 1995, if they had many in stock?? At least I am happy to have finally found this one.
Of course there are many collectors who don´t care about the boxes and therefore it is not that intresting. But from a historical point I really like this.
Also between 1990 and 1995 we many times find the very, almost "oversprayed", windmills. From very brown, to very blue, to almost no paint( grey-white).
