Rare Tiny Sister Steiff Early Post WWII Bazi Dachshund Puppy Dog All ID Us-Zone Flag RARE ANGULAR Pre-War Red-Printed Chest Tag
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Rare Tiny Sister Steiff Early Post WWII Bazi Dachshund Puppy Dog All ID Us-Zone Flag RARE ANGULAR Pre-War Red-Printed Chest Tag
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Bazi joins her standing sister, and although that Bazi is sweet, this girl is really special. Although I have sold a seated Bazi with all ID before, I have never had the privilege of helping this rare, earliest, version find a new home. This wonderful pup was in the first of four series made of the 10-cm seated Bazi, and she was very early in that series too!
Before I get into this fantastic pup’s specifics, I should tell you that the seated Bazi was made in three sizes, and this is the smallest one. As I said, Bazi’s catalogued size is 10 centimeters, and her sisters were 14 cm. and 17 cm. That is all I want to say about the other sizes; I just wanted you to have some context.
OK, back to this special girl. Her article number is 3310. It was hard to get a picture of that, but I did. The entire 3310 series of Bazi was produced between 1950 and 1958, but I can narrow down her production period from both directions. Baz’s flag is anchored by a raised script button, so it is likely she was not made before 1951. That’s as much narrowing as I can do from the early end of her production, but her red-printed name tag and the particular style of her flag make 1952 the latest year she could have been made. Therefore, what started out as a nine-year production, based only on the general article number, 3310, becomes a two-year only production! BUT SEE BELOW; THE PARTICULAR SHAPE OF BAZI’S TAG MAKES HER EVEN RARER.
Bazi is in excellent-plus condition. I was originally going to say that she is “near mint,” but her one tiny flaw caused me to be more conservative. Bazi has a few moth kisses on her snout. I am showing those to you as insets in my fifth and eighth images. I have made the lighting and the contrast in those images to emphasize three areas (two on her right and one on her left—on my fifth and eighth images, respectively) to make sure you know they are there. But you should be able to see in her main views, that those imperfections hardly, if at all, subtract from her wonderful appearance.
If I am going to nitpick, Bazi has a tiny amount of wear along some of her seams, but those, by themselves, would not have prevented me from calling her “near mint.” Her base copper color with brown airbrushed accents on her face, head, and ears, is spectacular. I believe the light gold of her underside looked no different when she left Germany 70-plus years ago.
The angular bear head on Bazi’s chest tag, with its muzzle, nose, and mouth drawn in, is mostly associated with animals produced decades earlier, well before the war, and is not the red-printed tag one sees on “ordinary” early post-WWII animals with the slightly modernized red-printed chest tag (see the tiny brown Original Teddy in my shop). I don’t know why some people call this a “watermelon” tag, but that’s a name you might have seen; to me, it looks nothing like a watermelon! :-) I have no idea of what percentage of these red-printed tags, as opposed to the ones like my OT wears, were used on 1951 and 1952 animals, but I cannot now think of one I have seen, and I have seen hundreds of the modernized red-printed tags.
Bazi’s chest tag is in excellent condition. It has only a touch of staining from the bell, which is surprising, in fact, because the bell looks to be tarnish free. That doesn’t matter, of course, because the bell hides the stain when it sits on the tag. :-)
By the way, now that I have mentioned the bell, I will note that it still tinkles with its tiny pebble clapper—and also that Bazi’s collar is in excellent condition, with just a tiny bit of wear along the edges.
OK, I got sidetracked. ;-) I wanted to finish describing the other piece of ID that makes this Bazi so special and so recognizably early. You can see her “3310" article number, and you can see part of the abbreviation “Orig. gesch.“ printed above the numbers. I did not want to bend Bazi’s ear any more up and away from her flag. Of course, it should be obvious that the first abbreviation stands for the word “Original.” The “gesch” stands for “geschützt,” which means “protected” and serves a similar function to the ® we associate with trademarks and the © we associate with copyright. I could not expose the area even higher up on the flag to show the name “Steiff” PRINTED on top, not in cursive script as it appears on later flags, but in small sans-serif printed typeface. As is the case with Bazi’s chest tag, this is the same font and format that were used on animals dating long before WWII.
Something that applies to POST WWII is Bazi’s complete white US-ZONE flag, attached to the seam of her right front leg. That flag was used both before and after Bazi’s production date, so it does not add anything to facilitate an estimation of her production date. But it is nice to know that it is there and intact!
I noted above that this Bazi is the smallest size of the three seated Bazi sisters. The “10” in her article number indicates her size in centimeters to the top of her head. She is just a little more, measuring about 4 1/8 inches high. If her length is relevant to the display place you are thinking of, her length from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail is about 5 1/2 inches when she faces forward.
I can’t think of anything else to tell you, but please write if you have a question. If you are into rare tiny early post-WWII dogs, you should also consider my brown and white seated Cockie and my gold standing Cockie from the same time period. If you want to keep to the same breed of dog, please consider Bazi’s standing sister.
WHATEVER YOU DECIDE TO DO ABOUT BAZI OR ANY OF MY OTHER STEIFF ITEMS, PLEASE BE SURE TO SEE THE ARTICLE I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT STEIFF ID FRAUD. GO TO “ABOUT US” ON MY SHOP HOME PAGE; THEN CLICK “FAVORITE LINKS.” YOU WILL SEE SOME AMAZING AND UNBELIEVABLE EXAMPLES OF SUCH FRAUD, AS WELL AS OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR COLLECTORS. I UPDATE THE ARTICLE PERIODICALLY. IF YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED AT IT RECENTLY, I UPDATED AND EXPANDED IT IN DECEMBER, 2024.
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Before I get into this fantastic pup’s specifics, I should tell you that the seated Bazi was made in three sizes, and this is the smallest one. As I said, Bazi’s catalogued size is 10 centimeters, and her sisters were 14 cm. and 17 cm. That is all I want to say about the other sizes; I just wanted you to have some context.
OK, back to this special girl. Her article number is 3310. It was hard to get a picture of that, but I did. The entire 3310 series of Bazi was produced between 1950 and 1958, but I can narrow down her production period from both directions. Baz’s flag is anchored by a raised script button, so it is likely she was not made before 1951. That’s as much narrowing as I can do from the early end of her production, but her red-printed name tag and the particular style of her flag make 1952 the latest year she could have been made. Therefore, what started out as a nine-year production, based only on the general article number, 3310, becomes a two-year only production! BUT SEE BELOW; THE PARTICULAR SHAPE OF BAZI’S TAG MAKES HER EVEN RARER.
Bazi is in excellent-plus condition. I was originally going to say that she is “near mint,” but her one tiny flaw caused me to be more conservative. Bazi has a few moth kisses on her snout. I am showing those to you as insets in my fifth and eighth images. I have made the lighting and the contrast in those images to emphasize three areas (two on her right and one on her left—on my fifth and eighth images, respectively) to make sure you know they are there. But you should be able to see in her main views, that those imperfections hardly, if at all, subtract from her wonderful appearance.
If I am going to nitpick, Bazi has a tiny amount of wear along some of her seams, but those, by themselves, would not have prevented me from calling her “near mint.” Her base copper color with brown airbrushed accents on her face, head, and ears, is spectacular. I believe the light gold of her underside looked no different when she left Germany 70-plus years ago.
The angular bear head on Bazi’s chest tag, with its muzzle, nose, and mouth drawn in, is mostly associated with animals produced decades earlier, well before the war, and is not the red-printed tag one sees on “ordinary” early post-WWII animals with the slightly modernized red-printed chest tag (see the tiny brown Original Teddy in my shop). I don’t know why some people call this a “watermelon” tag, but that’s a name you might have seen; to me, it looks nothing like a watermelon! :-) I have no idea of what percentage of these red-printed tags, as opposed to the ones like my OT wears, were used on 1951 and 1952 animals, but I cannot now think of one I have seen, and I have seen hundreds of the modernized red-printed tags.
Bazi’s chest tag is in excellent condition. It has only a touch of staining from the bell, which is surprising, in fact, because the bell looks to be tarnish free. That doesn’t matter, of course, because the bell hides the stain when it sits on the tag. :-)
By the way, now that I have mentioned the bell, I will note that it still tinkles with its tiny pebble clapper—and also that Bazi’s collar is in excellent condition, with just a tiny bit of wear along the edges.
OK, I got sidetracked. ;-) I wanted to finish describing the other piece of ID that makes this Bazi so special and so recognizably early. You can see her “3310" article number, and you can see part of the abbreviation “Orig. gesch.“ printed above the numbers. I did not want to bend Bazi’s ear any more up and away from her flag. Of course, it should be obvious that the first abbreviation stands for the word “Original.” The “gesch” stands for “geschützt,” which means “protected” and serves a similar function to the ® we associate with trademarks and the © we associate with copyright. I could not expose the area even higher up on the flag to show the name “Steiff” PRINTED on top, not in cursive script as it appears on later flags, but in small sans-serif printed typeface. As is the case with Bazi’s chest tag, this is the same font and format that were used on animals dating long before WWII.
Something that applies to POST WWII is Bazi’s complete white US-ZONE flag, attached to the seam of her right front leg. That flag was used both before and after Bazi’s production date, so it does not add anything to facilitate an estimation of her production date. But it is nice to know that it is there and intact!
I noted above that this Bazi is the smallest size of the three seated Bazi sisters. The “10” in her article number indicates her size in centimeters to the top of her head. She is just a little more, measuring about 4 1/8 inches high. If her length is relevant to the display place you are thinking of, her length from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail is about 5 1/2 inches when she faces forward.
I can’t think of anything else to tell you, but please write if you have a question. If you are into rare tiny early post-WWII dogs, you should also consider my brown and white seated Cockie and my gold standing Cockie from the same time period. If you want to keep to the same breed of dog, please consider Bazi’s standing sister.
WHATEVER YOU DECIDE TO DO ABOUT BAZI OR ANY OF MY OTHER STEIFF ITEMS, PLEASE BE SURE TO SEE THE ARTICLE I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT STEIFF ID FRAUD. GO TO “ABOUT US” ON MY SHOP HOME PAGE; THEN CLICK “FAVORITE LINKS.” YOU WILL SEE SOME AMAZING AND UNBELIEVABLE EXAMPLES OF SUCH FRAUD, AS WELL AS OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR COLLECTORS. I UPDATE THE ARTICLE PERIODICALLY. IF YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED AT IT RECENTLY, I UPDATED AND EXPANDED IT IN DECEMBER, 2024.
****!!!!YOU MUST READ THIS!!!!**** If you are buying more than one item from me, you can save on shipping. To complete your purchase, it’s safest to say you will PAY BY CHECK. If you want to use PayPal, I CAN CHANGE TO PAYPAL WHEN I SEND YOU AN INVOICE.
Item id: rl-3112
Color: Brown, Copper, Gold
Item type: Vintage
Fine plush age: Post 1950
Color: Brown, Copper, Gold
Item type: Vintage
Fine plush age: Post 1950
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