WOW. This collection is AMAZING. Dennis, if you're reading this, can I ask how long you've been collecting and where you found most of these? Also, do you have other pictures? I'm in awe!
Let's see, my first Gund was bought for me by my girlfriend in 1994 or so. I didn't start to seriously collect until about 1997 to 1998. So about 11 years? I am not a "completist" in the sense that I don't care about buying EVERY single version out there. I only care about the REALLY rare, REALLY big, or REALLY unique ones. So I have my own rules that I constantly change.
To the best of my knowledge, the largest ones are 30 inches. Many people incorrectly measure the Gund Snuffles, leading to various sizes as large as 36 inches but the largest is 30 inches I believe. There is the white, Big Fudge, Millenium, and Pottery Barn ones. I have all of them and bought them straight up when they were available for the then astronomical price of 300 dollars each. Now of course, they are a king's ransom. Most of my original purchases was from a Canadian on-line store called bearst.com They are still open. They were the NUMBER one source of Gund Snuffles if you didn't mind paying a premium price. But they had ALL of them and often was the ONLY store outside of FAO to carry the rarer ones like the super big ones and the Mohair ones.
The rest was bought painfully one by one on Ebay.
I have since added a 20 inch Millenium (the last "large" one I'm missing) as well as a mint Green snuffles.
So I think the only truly "rare" Snuffles I'm missing is the Hawaiian set. I had a chance but I had to save all my money for the Millenium and couldn't beat out the winner who bid over 640 dollars for the set.
I have a little 14 month old daughter who would destroy my collection so for now all my animals are sewn up in this HUGE thick bedsheet. Once she is older or I move into a bigger house, I will take them out and take much more pictures. Boris has a great website and with Katy Fung missing in action again, I think his blog represents the best source of information on Gund Snuffles on the Internet.
Hope that helps and I also lurk on the Yahoo Snuffles mailing list.
Thanks for such a thorough description! For a while, I've wondered how many 30" ones there are. I have two (white, 1980 made in korea and fudge,#2390 made in china). The rare/large snuffles on eBay are so pricey recently that I can only watch the auctions. I'm guessing I've seen a lot of the ones here while they were up for bidding.
Can't wait until you have a chance to take them out again and snap some photos. Maybe in the future your daughter will become an avid collector as well :)
(Source: Dennis)
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WOW. This collection is AMAZING. Dennis, if you're reading this, can I ask how long you've been collecting and where you found most of these? Also, do you have other pictures? I'm in awe!
Hi, kcho,
Let's see, my first Gund was bought for me by my girlfriend in 1994 or so. I didn't start to seriously collect until about 1997 to 1998. So about 11 years? I am not a "completist" in the sense that I don't care about buying EVERY single version out there. I only care about the REALLY rare, REALLY big, or REALLY unique ones. So I have my own rules that I constantly change.
To the best of my knowledge, the largest ones are 30 inches. Many people incorrectly measure the Gund Snuffles, leading to various sizes as large as 36 inches but the largest is 30 inches I believe. There is the white, Big Fudge, Millenium, and Pottery Barn ones. I have all of them and bought them straight up when they were available for the then astronomical price of 300 dollars each. Now of course, they are a king's ransom. Most of my original purchases was from a Canadian on-line store called bearst.com They are still open. They were the NUMBER one source of Gund Snuffles if you didn't mind paying a premium price. But they had ALL of them and often was the ONLY store outside of FAO to carry the rarer ones like the super big ones and the Mohair ones.
The rest was bought painfully one by one on Ebay.
I have since added a 20 inch Millenium (the last "large" one I'm missing) as well as a mint Green snuffles.
So I think the only truly "rare" Snuffles I'm missing is the Hawaiian set. I had a chance but I had to save all my money for the Millenium and couldn't beat out the winner who bid over 640 dollars for the set.
I have a little 14 month old daughter who would destroy my collection so for now all my animals are sewn up in this HUGE thick bedsheet. Once she is older or I move into a bigger house, I will take them out and take much more pictures. Boris has a great website and with Katy Fung missing in action again, I think his blog represents the best source of information on Gund Snuffles on the Internet.
Hope that helps and I also lurk on the Yahoo Snuffles mailing list.
Dennis
Dennis,
Thanks for such a thorough description! For a while, I've wondered how many 30" ones there are. I have two (white, 1980 made in korea and fudge,#2390 made in china). The rare/large snuffles on eBay are so pricey recently that I can only watch the auctions. I'm guessing I've seen a lot of the ones here while they were up for bidding.
Can't wait until you have a chance to take them out again and snap some photos. Maybe in the future your daughter will become an avid collector as well :)
Kristina
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