There are many different markings of Toothbrush Smurf. First sold by Schleich in 1980 through to 1991, then 1993 to 2000 and 2004 to 2006. But there is more than just different markings to be found with Toothbrush Smurf.
Toothbrush Smurf #20064 stands brushing his teeth with a large yellow toothbrush and holds a red tube of toothpaste. Typically the red tube of toothpaste will have a white stripe on the front. The size of the stripe can vary in length and thickness. Also in the beginning the toothpaste was long and curvy in shape.
This mould was also made in Hong Kong and sold by BP and Wallace Berrie. There was very little differences between the W.German and Hong Kong versions. If anything the thickness of the white stripe on the toothpaste tube.
Not that surprising, Toothbrush Smurf was used as a Promotional Smurf but several different companies. I don’t own any of these, but I have seen ones promoting Colgate, Broxo, Fluocaril Bi Fluore 180, PDH-Dental, Oral B and others.
Keep an eye open for this one
However, there is an extremely rare one made by Wallace Berrie. It was made with a long blue swirled toothpaste, wide white stripe on a blue tube. It has the markings – Made in Hong Kong Schleich S © 1980 Peyo markings.
So there is a good chance this was made after 1982. This was around the time Wallace Berrie changed the year marking on Smurfs produced before 1979 and then changed it back. No idea why they did this?
Toothbrush Smurf with short toothpaste
It was until the early 1990’s when they changed to short toothpaste. These are typically found with a CE marking. First they added the CE on the german mould. Then they blocked made in Germany and marked it made in China.
I also don’t believe you can find any Promotional Smurfs made with the short toothpaste. However, I am always happy to be prooved wrong….
Every now and then, you can find Toothbrush Smurf with different coloured toothpaste tubes. As pretty as they are, these are unlikely to be genuine. So if you don’t care about this, they could be nice to add to your collection. Good chance though, others might be thinking the same as you!
Keep on Smurfin
Kath B