The SMURF CATALOG was originally meant to be for our own personal use.
As passionate Smurf fans and collectors, we found out pretty fast that for "fair" collecting, swapping, buying and selling of our little blue friends, an open reference book was absolutely necessary.
This is now already the 4th generation of the "Schlumpf Katalog", which is meant to be an open and informative reference book for "beginners" as well as for "experts".
Since "Smurfing" became very attractive and more and more collectors discovered the thrill of this collecting field, a lot of questions arose:
- Which Smurfs do exist?
- What color and mold variations are known?
- Which are the rarest figurines?
- How high is the value of these figurines?
- What do the Smurfs look like?
We feel our Smurf catalog can answer these questions.
We don't claim our catalog to be 100% correct and final. Even though we deal very intensively with the little gnomes, there will always come up new variations, rumors or information. This is the thrill of Smurf collecting - everybody can be the "discoverer" of an unknown Smurf or variation.
Ever since the release of our first black and white catalog in 1996, we have received a lot of enthusiastic encouragement. The "SMOERFER'S" Smurf catalog 2000 has helped Smurf lovers from all over the world with their "hunt" for missing figurines and gives them a guideline for swapping and trading Smurfs.
Since the "Smurf-scene" has changed quite a bit over the past years, it really was about time for an updated, new and improved "Smurf Catalog IV". Besides the update of prices, a lot of newly discovered variations to regular figurines were added and chapters about "Promotional Smurfs," "Smurf-A-Grams" and "Raw Smurfs" were heavily extended and improved. With the help of many great collectors, we succeeded to catalogue almost all Smurfs and their variations that were produced by Schleich and Bully. We are far from claiming absolute certainty - every once in a while new figurines are being discovered, but still, Smurfs that are not mentioned in this catalog should be approached with caution.
Our worries to have made a catalogue exclusively for "Smurf professionals" vanish while leafing through the pages and the fun one has by looking at the many hundred different blue faces.
And now, have fun browsing!
