SCHLEICH - From which year is this Farm Life catalogue (leaflet)?

Does anybody know from which year this little Farm Life catalogue (leaflet) is?
It doesn't say so on the folder.
We think it is older than 1992, but which year exactly?
Would be great is somebody knows for sure - thanks in advance!

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I don`t know exactly, - but according to Gascher`s the farmers in those colours were only produced (sold) in 1991.
I don`t know if that is true

Those particular farmer and farmwife variants were available in 1988-89. The green cart with brown wheels was available in 1989-91. That would seem to indicate that this must be a 1989 farmlife catalog...

When comparing the colours of the "Farmer 13400" & "Farmers Wife 13401" as well as the "Accessories 13402" and "Cart 13404", we find differences in the two sites we mostly use for refence.

According to the Schleichtiersammler-site, this would have to be a 1989 catalogue.
According to the Tiewe-site, it would have to be 1990 or 1991.

Can anybody tell us which of the two is right in this matter?

@ Schleich61: where did you get this information from, from your own catalogues or from one of these sites perhaps? Would be wonderful is you had been able to check this with your own catalogues, which would present a definite answer!

We would really love to know from which year this catalogue is and hope somebody from this forum might be able to tell us for sure!

Thanks for your help, best regards,
valinor.nl/schleich

You could send a mail to Schleich and ask them

do they reply to such questions nowadays then?
would be great!
did you ever try this?

Valinor wrote:

do they reply to such questions nowadays then?
would be great!
did you ever try this?

No, I trust Tiewe 100 %

But it won`t harm to try

Valinor wrote:

When comparing the colours of the "Farmer 13400" & "Farmers Wife 13401" as well as the "Accessories 13402" and "Cart 13404", we find differences in the two sites we mostly use for refence.

According to the Schleichtiersammler-site, this would have to be a 1989 catalogue.
According to the Tiewe-site, it would have to be 1990 or 1991.

Can anybody tell us which of the two is right in this matter?

@ Schleich61: where did you get this information from, from your own catalogues or from one of these sites perhaps? Would be wonderful is you had been able to check this with your own catalogues, which would present a definite answer!

We would really love to know from which year this catalogue is and hope somebody from this forum might be able to tell us for sure!

Thanks for your help, best regards,
valinor.nl/schleich

Hello. I utilized the information on Torben's website. Since I don't have these catalogs (they are quite rare, n'est-ce pas?), I had to rely on a secondary source of information.

Thanks very much, Schleich61, for taking the trouble to help us!

We came to the same conclusion as you, but another one as well: we need to do everything that is needed to try and get access to the information in these old catalogues (1991 and earlier), if we ever want to be sure about all the "official" variants.
But since they are very hard to come by, we don't know if we will ever be able to do this...

Valinor wrote:

Thanks very much, Schleich61, for taking the trouble to help us!

We came to the same conclusion as you, but another one as well: we need to do everything that is needed to try and get access to the information in these old catalogues (1991 and earlier), if we ever want to be sure about all the "official" variants.
But since they are very hard to come by, we don't know if we will ever be able to do this...

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I believe 1993 or 1994 is the earliest catalog I have. However, there are definitely multiple collectors here at this forum who do have these earlier catalogs... :)

Have done some more research as to the animals, disregarding the accessories in this leaflet.

All farm life animals that (according to Tiewe and STS) have been produced in 1984-1988 are included in this leaflet, EXCEPT 3: cat standing 13015, calf black/white 13016 and donkey 13212.

According to Tiewe and STS, in 1989 no new farm life animals were released.

None of the 5 farm life animals they say were released in 1990 are in this leaflet.

Conclusion 1:
This leaflet must of 1988 or 1989.

But what about the 3 missing animals then?

So, I started comparing the production numbers released in these early years (again, as stated by Tiewe and STS), before the 1st collectors catalogue of 1992. Leaving the 3 out that are not in our leaflet, produces this overview:

13001-13008: 1984
13009-13012: 1985
none: 1986
13013: 1987
13014: 1988 - leaving 13015 and 13016 out
none: 1989
13017-13018: 1990
13019: 1991

13101-13102: 1984
none: 1985
none: 1986
13103: 1987
13104-13106: 1988
none: 1989
none: 1990
13107: 1991

13201-13203: 1984
13204: 1985
none: 1986
13205-13206: 1987
13207-13211: 1988 - leaving 13212 out
none: 1989
13213-13215: 1990
13216-13217: 1991

Conclusion 2:
This leads me to the conclusion that our leaflet is of 1988, and that the number 13015, 13016 and 13212 have been released in 1989 (or perhaps 1990) and not as stated in both Tiewe and STS in 1988.

Also, the donkey 13212 in our collection has copyright 1989, so that perhaps emphasises that he can't have been released in 1988?

Can anyone shoot holes in this way of thinking? Would love to know for sure!