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Papa 1975-76

Rare.

In 1973 Klaus Volkmar left Schleich and started his own company, Bully. He also got the
rights for the smurfs from Peyo and Schleich was not allowed to make any smurfs anymore.
Bully got the molds and removed the emblem as seen on the marking. The first years Bully
only made and sold their own newly made smurfs, but in 1975 they sold all the smurfs
Schleich had made before 1973. But since they had not made these molds they were not
allowed to add Bully to these smurfs. And they were sold separate from their own molds.
Bully sold Papa with articlenumber 1010/501.

I think either Bully started painting the tail blue or Schleich did this when they started making
smurfs again in 1977??

 

This is a picture of the forth page of the Bully catalogue from 1975. Thanks
Stefan for letting me use the picture! Here you can see that Bully made all the
Schleichsmurfs made before 1973.

After these variations they started painting the tail blue.