Blue Cavern

I just won this auction tonight with these smurfs in them.. (notice the yellow scarf and yellow shirted leaf rider )

but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the sockel bases in this auction? Are they the real thing and if so which smurfs went with which sockel?? This isn't for resale just for myself, thought if I did have a spare smurf to add to the sockel why not.
does anyone know.. I know the picture is not that good on these and I can't make most of them out either. I tried to look in the book but found no luck in matching them up..

Two are easy:

The yellow sockel is the postman smurf (either white envelope or enevelope with a heart: both exist)

The top left white is the candle smurf

I would need to dig out further for the others: I believe I have seen most of these but if I remember right some of them are not from Smurfs.

Wow Gerda...that yellow shirt Skateboarder is really cool. I am in the process of sorting one out for myself at the moment but it's not guranteed at this stage. It's a nice one to get though and the same for the Bobsled so congrats for both of those.

I agree with David so far (easy to do since he's the sockel king)...but maybe it might be better to post bigger pics of the writing when they arrive and we can all go off and do some research (in David's case...check his collection...lucky guy ).

I am sure we can work out the rest quite quickly but I was also wondering if some were from other characters that weren't smurfs. I nearly had a Alfred J Kwak sockel the other week before someone outbidded me at the last minute...it still went for peanuts so I should of bidded a little higher...anyway, enough of my problems. Well done with the great auction win.

I just had a quick look through the DSK and I couldn't find any others besides the ones David has come up with. I am wondering what other characters were released on English printed sockels just incase theseweren't smurfs?....I think Snoopys were weren't they? I tried to look for some snoopy sockels on the web but didn't have much luck. Hopefully they are smurf ones though...and if not....just stick a smurf on one and sell on ebay as a rare whone and you could make a fortune......joking of course

Theres a few non-smurf sockels around. I had a muppets one I sent to JT.

....just stick a smurf on one and sell on ebay as a rare whone and you could make a fortune......joking of course

Let's see..
that would be one worthless smurf..
one non smurfy sockel.
a few words like SUPER RARE ONE OF A KIND.... AND

PRESTO..... fortune made screwing poor suckers out of there money Luckily I'm not that mean, otherwise I would have tried to sell a thirsty who lost his bottle with a little coke bottle that came with a polar bear.. I was very surprised how nicely it fit to it too same size and everything.. guess we know where the coke promos now come from

anyway
If the sockels are nice though and I can find a nice smurf for it then I will put them aside in what will be my new "fake sockel" collection
but I'm more happy about the sleder and leaf board


gerda

Hi Gerda, nice win.

I spotted this auction but as I have the yellow variations already (and I am skint after Christmas) I decided to pass on it. The seller is actually a member on here and a really nice guy so I am sure if you had any questions he will be able to help you out.

I am useless on the sockels so I can't help there but I agree it was worth it just for the skateboarder and sled anyway.

I love the sockels but I only have two
I must make it my new years resolution to get more

Smurfy regards
Steve

I only had 1 sockel this time last year Steve.....it was my last New Year's resolution to get more of them in 2005...although this year it's to save save save so very few sockels will be added to my collection sadly....I wish you luck with the sockel hunt and I am sure you will find some nice ones this year....especially at Passion.

I just found some "non-smurf sockels" on ebay. Are any of these the same as the bases of yours, Gerda? Some pics are bad!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Dreieck-Sockelfi ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Dreieck-Sockelfi ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Dreieck-Sockelfi ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Dreieck-Sockelfi ... dZViewItem

No none of those are like the ones I have, but thank you for the link. It's neat to see the diffrent sockels and what was all put on them!!




gerda