| Dating those Julip Originals. |
| A~1971 B~1972 C~1973 D~1974 E~1975 F~1976 G~1977 H~1978 I~1979 J~1980 K~1981 L~1982 M~1983 N~1984 O~1985 P~1986 Q~1987 R~1988 S~1989 T~1990. |
| One of the ways of dating your Julip original is by the style in which his eyes are painted. |
| Through the 1950s and early 1960s the eyes were painted quite large and were almost scary looking! The paint too on these models was rather thick in its appearance. |
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| Towards the end of the 1960s the eyes changed again to be much more refined in their shape.These eyes were just black in colour. In the 1970s the eyes changed into the eyes that are used to this day with the tri~colour of black,brown and white. |
| 1971 saw the lettering system begin.Julip began to put in a letter in the small dip inside the bottom jaw of the originals.They began in 1971 with A, 1972~B ,1973~C and so on,we have written down a table which is on the left to help.This of course made dating your old originals much easier.Also we found some horses had like Floyd in the right hand top picture had an extra letter alongside the year letter. The extra letter was a 'S' which we discovered meant that the horse when he was purchased brand new he was a special order.Floyd has the letters ES meaning he was a special order from 1975. Nobody knows when the lettering system ended and the latest letter we know of in our gallery is a T ~1990. Also to add a little confusion NOT all originals have a letter though you may know yourself your horse was a certain year.Maybe someone simply forgot one day? |
| PLEASE NOTE: |
| Please be very careful when peering into your originals mouths! If they won't open leave them alone as damage can be caused! |
| We cannot forget about the Julip silver horseshoes which were painted onto every model from the 1950s to the 1990s.The very early 1950s models also had silver clenches on the front of their shoes painted on. Mohair and fleece is another way to try and date your models.The early Julips, even some very early 1970s models didn't have mohair or fleece.Their hair was a much coarser hair almost like horsehair and some had manes and tails of what could have been a very early type of synthetic hair too. I know in the late 1980s fleece and mohair were still being used but when the hair changed to the synthetic type used today I am not sure. I will try and find out when this changed and also when silver shoe painting was ended. One thing that does baffle me is the letter R which is painted on the base of Samuel's foot.Does this mean 'reject' perhaps? |
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| Poor boy,I do have to say that Samuel certainly does not look as though he is a reject! Also discovered is that Julip before the lettering system began would sometimes put in a letter X,Y or Z in the horses mouth,we think this indicated the bridle size of the model. |