Blue Cavern

In order to show Blue Cavern's appreciation to Andre and his many many very helpful researches a new rank has been created and been given exclusively to Andre...


Andre is now officially our Variation Expert


Sorry Andre, there is no certificate that comes with this exclusive rank...nor will it buy you any smurfs, but you have some bragging rights because this rank belongs exclusively to you

I hope everybody joins me in my appreciation for Andre's research and his willingness to discuss and share it with us...and that nobody feels overlooked because other than Andre, we all have the same rankings..based on the amount of our posts

You've really earned it André. Congratulations!!!

Very deserved André and thanks for all!

Lia

André really deserves this title due to all of the detailed research he has put into analysing the different markings on the pvc's & attempting to put them in a chronological order.

I'm sure that this information will be invaluable to collectors for many years to come

Totally agree!!!!!

I think this forum would be another one at this moment without the help of Andre. There are great collectors around the world but IMHO, the best collectors are those who share their knowledgement with others. And in that sense, André is NUMBER ONE

Hi

Well what's more to say ..................... ofcourse i agree

Tintin

Congrats - much deserved

Congrats!!!! André deserved it!!!!

Congratulations André !!

I have already given Andre my cudo's, but I will do it again. Andre the info you have compiled is nothing short of Genius. Smurfers for many years (providing Moey doesn't delete it)lol Will use this info. This is an invaluable tool for Smurfers. GREAT JOB Andre'.

Congratulations and a big THANK YOU to you Andre for all of the hard work you have done to help smurfers worldwide!!

Congratulations Andre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

smurf68

Thanks everyone!

I just noticed this thread now.

There are a lot of experts on smurfs here so many collectors here could be called this.

It is just that my main interest regarding the smurffigurines is the very facinating history about how it all started and got to be so big all over the world. And the markings, dots, boxes, catalogues, posters etc have most of the pieces we need to get the complete story. It is just that we need to find all these small clues to complete the puzzle!!

One of these questions is( I now try to figure out the years for the 1966 figurines Schleich made) the Hongkongmade Angry. I know the large mold angry was made before 1980 and probably( almost sure) was the first variation of the larger Angry. It was never sold in the US. But where did they sell this variation? Maybe they made it to be produced in the US, but then stopped it before selling it?? Then it maybe later was sold in Europe in 1985/86??

It was most likely made in 1979, though!

But I am not sure about this one and can very well change my mind completly!

I will have to check my friend. He has about 40 Black angry Smurfs. I was under the impression that he got them as a child a few at a time. I could be wrong. And then again He could have gone overseas to get them.