Have you wondered how many different markings can be found on a particular smurf. Let’s have a look at two smurfs that have been made for more than 30 years – Smurfette with baby (#20192) and Smurf with teddy bear (#20205)
Smurfette with Baby first came onto the scene in 1985 as seen in the Schleich catalogue from that year. This has continued right through to the latest Schleich catalogue released in 2015.
Wallace Berrie gave their version number 6256 and is the only version found where the baby’s blue tail can be seen.
It is hard to say if the mould has changed over the years but by looking at my own collection they all look like the same mould but just different paint colours have been used over the years. Smurfette is wearing a white dress and white heeled shoes while holding a baby smurf wearing pink pyjamas. The baby smurf is holding onto a red rattle that has a yellow centre.
Smurfette with Baby has been made in many different countries over the years. These include Hong Kong, Portugal, W.Germany/Germany and China. It can also be found with different paint dots which generally indicates the country that it was painted in, these include mustard (Portugal), red (Sri Lanka) and black (Tunisia or Portugal) It can also be found with a blue paint dot which indicates a different pvc material was used, this was around the early 2000’s.
Smurf with Teddy can be found wearing white pyjamas, with two yellow buttons on the back flap – Baby Smurf sits with a teddy bear on one knee.
Smurf with Teddy was first released in 1985 by Wallace Berrie as a set of two. The other smurf included in the set was Baby with Ice-cream (#20206) and can only be found with Hong Kong markings.
Over the years the figurine does not appear have changed, only the colours used on the blue skin and teddy bear’s light brown colour.
Smurf with Teddy has been made in many different countries over the years. These include Hong Kong, Macau, W.Germany/Germany and China. So far I have only found Smurf with Teddy with two different paint dots, black and blue.
I have always been curious why some smurfs are continually made year after year, where others are only made for one or two years. I have no doubt it has to do with sales. But sometimes I would like to think is because they are cute and adorable.
Collecting smurfs with different markings is an endless task though something I really enjoy. So imagine if every smurf produced was made with ten different markings. So if my maths is correct up until 2015 – there has been 468 regular pvc smurfs produced x 10 = 4680 smurfs!
Keep on Smurfin
Kath B