A wonderful donkey from Sue and Lesley :-))))))

Today i got a package from England, - I do not know how to find words to describe how enormously surprised and happy I was when I finally had removed layer after layer of wrapping, - A DONKEY

But no ordinary donkey, a precious, lovely, old and rare and cute donkey, at least 50 years old ! And as a quite undserved gift from Sue and Lesley !!!

I would never have dreamed of owning so precious a donkey

Of course she ( I think it is a she) now stands together with my other old and precious figueres on my "showshelf", but she is by far the most precious, - a gift , and completely undeserved !

But let me show you. It is rather dark here today, so the pictures are not the best, but I can`t wait to show you, so : Ta-daaaa !!!!

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Isn`t she lovely ?

Hurrayyy for Sue and Lesley

Wow!!!! CONGRATULATION!!! Very sweet!!

Congratulation Susanne A wonderful gift

Precious friends, precious figure, congratulations to all of you! I'm very proud to be a member here!

Isn`t is impressive ?
Roger, mee too, - I hope Donkey is happy also

And it is so great to share with you

What an amazing gift, congrats

What a sweetie and what a lovely gift!
I love how these older models, despite seemingly having not very much detail, actually look more realistic and lifelike than many current ones. This one has the most exquisite head of any model donkey I've seen!

Thankyou Robert and Sumo

Sumo wrote:

What a sweetie and what a lovely gift!
I love how these older models, despite seemingly having not very much detail, actually look more realistic and lifelike than many current ones. This one has the most exquisite head of any model donkey I've seen!

You are so right, Sumo, there is something very donkey`ish in this figuere

Looking at the picture from the shelf, I just realised that there are several, that I would never have got without STS, - one of the little Reisler-men is a gift from Anna , the tapir, oryx and striped hyena are from Torben`s collection, and the deer and fox are from a "lot" of mainly Reisler, that Christophe pointed out to me on Ebay

What an adorable donkey! Congrats Susanne! :)

-Kristie

That is the cutest donkey ever! What a beautiful gift Susanne, congratulations!!!

Adorable! What a lovely surprise, from lovely people!

Congrats on your wonderfull gift Susanne!
I think it is made by Hausser Elastolin somewhere in the 1940's or so...

Thankyou friends, I am awfully lucky and happy

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Congrats on your wonderfull gift Susanne!
I think it is made by Hausser Elastolin somewhere in the 1940's or so...

...so this little donekey may be OLDER than me
Imagine people making a little donkey in a time where Europe was such in a mess

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Susanne and Willy, the donkey is Lineol. Here it is in a bad copy of a copy of a page from a Lineol 1958 catalogue. This mould was used from 1940 to the end of Lineol production, around 1960.

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Donkeys from (left to right): Tipple-Topple mould; Lineol 1930's mould; Lineol 1940-onwards mould (Susanne's donkey!); Hausser /Elastolin mould.

This particular donkey came to us with broken and twisted legs. Lesley fixed him up and now he has a good home with Susanne!

castlerigg

Thanks for the info Les and Sue!
I do have some pages of the Lineol and Hausser catalogues, but only with wildlife and so on.
And a copy of the 1935/1936 Lineol catalogue, but this donkey wasn't in there, as it was made later probably.

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The first LINEOL donkey (the second on the left) was made from 1932 to 1940. Then LINEOL made the other one (third) from 1940 to 1960. Those models are the two last donkey models. Indeed, two different models were made before : One before 1920 and the other from 1920 too 1932. For the older, I guess you could give your right arm to pay one
Lineol also made a very nice and very rare mule 10 1940.

WOW, a Lineol mule also

And a donkey made before 1920 !!!!

Sadly enough I can`t spare an arm, - it is hard enough to schratch 3 dogs behind the ears with the two arms I have

But I am very, very happy with the donkey I have alrady

SUSANNE wrote:

WOW, a Lineol mule also

And a donkey made before 1920 !!!!

Sadly enough I can`t spare an arm, - it is hard enough to schratch 3 dogs behind the ears with the two arms I have

But I am very, very happy with the donkey I have alrady

Great figure and what a wonderful gift. Wow, an older mule figure, I would love to see a photo of that figure.

I am afraid i can't help you on pictures of that mule Phil, but maybe Christophe can, as he has older scans of those catalogues, from which i only have the wildlife pages(1925 and 1937).
And i have a bad copy of the 1935-1936 catalogue.

By the way, good information Christophe!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I am afraid i can't help you on pictures of that mule Phil, but maybe Christophe can, as he has older scans of those catalogues, from which i only have the wildlife pages(1925 and 1937).
And i have a bad copy of the 1935-1936 catalogue.

By the way, good information Christophe!

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Where we could find this

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On the top pic you can see the four different Lineol ass.

On the bottom pic, the mule is between the two ass

It is time i buy those Lineol books to, they would help a lot on information on this brand!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

It is time i buy those Lineol books to, they would help a lot on information on this brand!

, in this book , you can also find the biggest fumble I ever seen in a collector book

Kikimalou wrote:

, in this book , you can also find the biggest fumble I ever seen in a collector book

come on, you have to tell us now!


To try to learn more about what is talked about on this forum, I have been looking at Lineol figures on ebay, and *swoon* they are breath taking!