75senta75 2012 newcomers

You are welcome Senta!

Things are quit complicated, because already in the early 1900's were companies taken over...
The Austrian company Pfeiffer, who made Tipple Topple models as their brand, were taken over by the Hausser Elastolin company before the second worldwar, somewhere in the 1930's i believe.
For that reason they used many of the moulds from the Pfeiffer company, and many of those models are the same, only slight differences sometimes, and they are hard to define sometimes, specially when the models are worn off...
to make it even more complicated, the Pfeiffer, Hausser and Lineol company worked together for some years, specially for the foreign market, and shared a lot of models together in their catalogues of those years...

The other story is about Lineol, which was taken over by the Marolin company in about the same time, so they have the same moulds partly to.
But in general, you can see, that the Lineol models do have more quality, i think the best from all of the old German composition models.
After WW2, Marolin was ceased by the DDR state as a state-company, and was called VEB Plaho.
They started to make a lot of the old Lineol moulds in plastic, almost the same in many cases.
When the cold war was over, Marolin started again, and the VEB Plaho was gone of course.
Marolin made some of the models that Plaho had planned, but never made, or only for foreign countries, as nobody could pay much for toys in those DDR times, so the model range for them was limited.
Then the Marolin company made many of the older Plaho models to, but slowly they stopped that.
The Marolin company still exists, but is not making many animal models anymore...

75senta75 wrote:

Christophe: Very interesting variation. The lines from my animal seems a few more distinct.
It seems really, you have the more modern version with very nice details and certainly a better paint
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Yvette

I don't know which is the oldest between our models, Yvette. I'm even not sure they are the same models from the same company...
Those models were copycated by several companies.

Here is a Danish copy

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The Danes seem to like a little bit more colour on a baboon...

Today was a beautiful spring day, a very good day for the flea market.
I have found so many very nice animals. Even a horse, that I was looking for a long time, also a very strange vulture. But look at the photos.


The mallard duck, white hen and a goose from Schleich.

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The red parrot, polar bear cub and a hedgehog.
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From Schleich "Cute creatures" the mole crawling.
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A crazy vulture from Schleich: Dargaud Morris 1984 from Lucky Luke.
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A cow from Bullyland 1984
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A old sheep, I don´t know the brand, but it was so cute, that I have taken it.
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And the wonderful old Shire with mane up from Schleich. I have looking for it so a long time.

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Wow, what a lucky finds! So beautiful horses, especially Shire! This had to be so much fun to find them on flea market I must try this one day too

SO many gems What a great treasure hunt you were on

That vulture is very rare, one of the models a lot of people sigh after, - and the shire, of course

Of course you couldn`t resist the sheep, it is adorable, - and probably very old ?
The duck and mole and parrot, and the hedgehog ...they all look like they were new

I LOVE that old Bullyland cow, she is one of my favourite farm animals from Bullyland

CONGRATULATIONS, Yvette !

Aaa, a good day indeed, congrats

Wow, great finds! I also go to flea markets often, but I've never found this many and this great figures. Congrats!

I have only 25 old models of Lineol, Elastolin and other old brands.
Now I want to sell five of them on ebay. including the two monkeys from these topic. My questions to the experts: What could the monkeys be worth? I do not know.

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Yvette

Congratulations Yvette, great catches from the flea market!!!

Congratulations Yvette, flea markets in Germany are perfect places to find some treasures. Here in Portugal nothing!
It is better to hide the sheep, Carolynn is watching!

Roger wrote:

Congratulations Yvette, flea markets in Germany are perfect places to find some treasures. Here in Portugal nothing!
It is better to hide the sheep, Carolynn is watching!

Congratulation Yvette

Roger is right... In France too, I can't imagine finding so much models in a flea market

Yes, the flea markets here are a very big fortune for collectors.
We have here in Munich every week some large flea markets.
Sometimes I find only 1-2 animals, but sometimes more.
So if the weather is nice and I have time on Saturday, I like to visit the flea markets.
Roger, when I saw the old sheep, I thought first: "Oh, what a beautiful, old sheep!" - But the next thought was: "It would be very pleased to Carolynn! If she could see it, she would buy it" Crazy, or not ?

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Yvette

Not crazy, Yvette ! Kind, is the word

Great finds! Flea markets are the best!

75senta75 wrote:

Roger, when I saw the old sheep, I thought first: "Oh, what a beautiful, old sheep!" - But the next thought was: "It would be very pleased to Carolynn! If she could see it, she would buy it" Crazy, or not ?

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Yvette

I have no doubts! Carolynn would not only buy it as ask for the remaining members of the flock!

Wonderful finds!
Congratulations

The flea markets here rarely have anything that nice.

I hope you dont pay too much for this .... bad conditions ...

[quote="75senta75"]Here are some more of the old animals. Some are injured, some more, some less.The elephant's is missing a part from the proboscis and the tiger has only one half leg behind. Could it be, that the elephant, the zebra, the donkey and the hippo are from Hausser Elastolin (Catalog 1933) ?
Are the bear and the eagle also from Hausser Elastolin. Perhaps in the catalog from 1939/40, page 23 ? And what brand are the monkeys and the kangaroo ?
For a better size some Schleich animals helps...

For damaged models you should never pay much, only when very very rare!

The good, old ebay is always good for some little surprises. Some days ago, I bought there some animals.
The seller says, they are "no name brand", but they looks very nice, so
I bought them. When they arrived, I saw, that they are from PV. And a
little horse from NEW RAY is also coming in.


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And here is the new NEW RAY horse, the rooster from Schleich shows the size:

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Yvette

Congratulations Yvette!!! Wonderful new animals!!!

They are FABULOUS

What a fantastic catch !!!! Ohhh, look at the mule and the donkey and the....

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations Yvette! Very cute and fantastic newcomers

The cow and pig are so adorable!

I love these little figures! Congratulations for finding them and thanks a lot for your beautiful pictures!