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Hi all,

This weekend Tessa and I went to Belgium and we lucky enough to find several stores selling Smurf items as well as a single!! Smurf on a flea market, but what a find it was for us

In one store we found a whole box of those Spanish Super Guay Smurfs and we'll sort them out later. But for our own collection we found the first two Dupuis Smurfs
Because they were very damaged we would normally not have looked at these, but they looked somehow famailiar and they reminded me of the photo Fram posted in another topic so I did check and, Yep, there it was. One was in a basket in a store and the other was the sole Smurf we found in a pile of rubble at a flea mareket

Here is a pic of the two new additions:


Thank you very much Fram, for posting that other photo and helping us find these by doing so
Now a question on these, are the 6 Fram posted the only ones of this Dupuis series?

Thanks,
Dennis

No problem! I haven't found a source about the Dupuis union ones yet, so this is what I know.
You have a papa, lawyer, smurfette, drummer, vanity and tongue (20077) for sure. I think there were a few others as well, but I always forget which ones.

On checking, these were the six I mentioned in a previous post, and I can't find any other ones on anyone else website for now (or eBay), so until I find another one, I would consider these 6 to be the whole series.

hi guys!

there is also a bunch of small key chain dupuis smurfs

as seen on this link

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/schtroumpf/PAGE ... rf481.html

Yep, these are the nice, old, original Dupuis Smurfs. I still miss two of them and have one only in a bad condition. Almost there!

Thanks for all the help

Now I know I have to check chewed up keychain SMurfsd as well

The hunt is on !!!

Dennis

Hi Dennis, nice additions to your collection. It is a shame that these smurfs are normally in such poor condition. I know ours all are.

We have:

drummer
judge
mirror

I think I have Papa and Judge of these which frammy baby got for me.

I have 2 of these (Mirror & Naughty thanks to Gerda) and I have the other 4 coming next week to make up the 6. I haven't seen any others in this range either.

I do love those other ones that you have Fram...they do look nice but are quite rare and popular when they do come along....someday

Ok...the package just arrived at work with the Dupuis Union ones and the Smurfette wasn't part of the auction. I didn't read the above too well. I have never actually seen the Smurfette one so can somebody who does have one please show me a pic? I have the other 5 and I will look out for any others but there's a good chance that there are only 6 all up.

hi!

I also have dupuis smurfs, the two large normal ones, the black key chain and the prisoner key chain ones

also the hard pvc type ones I have the vanity,drummer and judge, and papa and the sticking out his tongue one

I thought I had them all but last month I found smurfettes ( two)

and here is the photo from the listing, as I have not had time to take one
yet but I will soon!

Allright, it seems logical toi conclude that there are only the six of them then. Woohoo, one complete collection!
They aren't too expensive (apart from perhaps really good copies, like the ones Gerda has), only a few Euro's, as they look like dodgy fakes. The older Dupuis Smurfs are indeed way more expensive (and nicer and rarer).

The older Dupuis Smurfs are indeed way more expensive (and nicer and rarer).

Me confused now

DO you mean the larger ones? Or is there a difference in these smaller PVCs as well.

As you see, I am a real novice on this subject

Thanks,
Dennis.

The older Dupuis Smurfs were made from around 1960 till around 1965. They exist of a 30 cm high normal Smurf (a store display item, never for sale for the general public: stiffer plastic), four 15 cm high squeak toys (Normal, Papa, Angry, and a King Smurf with a cape) (softer plastic), and 5 PVC Smurfs (most often as keychains) with markings Dupuis, Dupui, or nothong, on the top if the hat (the larger ones have no markings). They consist of a Papa, normal, golden, angry, and prisoner. They have a distinct mould, with broad, flat feet, and open hands (not like the old Schleich/Bull ones with one open and one flat hand). They are very nice and charming. You can see some of those in the back of the DSK IV (Smurfy items?). In the same series exist also a Johan and a Peewit. Especially the Johan is very rare.

The Dupuis Union ones are the ugly ones. From around 1973, they are clearly made from the Schleich molds, but are in a harder material and badly painted. They have a Dupuis Union marking beneath the feet.

Then there are also three or four Garden Ornament Smurfs witch have a Dupuis inscription, but they aren't normally considered Dupuis Smurfs (they are probably German).

hi

here is a photo sample of the other small Dupuis smurf

these are pvc like softer rubber then the ones you found that are hard plastic

and their hands are out stretched!

hi Dennis


this photo is off the LARGER dupuis smurf I think he is 23 cm

very similar to the small key chain version but huge!

and expensive as well.

More like thirty cm.
The normal 15 cm is very similar, but has no eyelashes.
The keychains are the size of the Schleich ones. They are all very similar to the one Attom showed (thanks Attom; that's the one I still miss). Especially the papa is very pretty, in my view.

I love these larger Dupuis smurfs although I am not lucky enough to own any.

Fram, here is your pic of your Dupuis collection that is featureed on Blue Cavern.

fram do you have a pic of the johan and pewit keychainns

thanks

martin

These are great and I really appreciated the info too Fram.

I only have the ugly small ones minus Smurfette but someday I hope to get the bigger and the keychain ones.

I do have the large Dupuis Digger but as you say Fram...he's not from the same group but still nice to have anyway.