Hello.
Joan Sallas found some of the Senff's models in Dresden. Also, Koshiro
Hatori reported some Japanese models from the first decade of the XIX
Century, from the Moriwaki family and some modeles folded by Kuzuhara
Koto. May be them can tell us more about this.
In Japan most people give some
In April 15th I asked what might be the oldest preserved fold (folded
model). There weren't any answers before this one.
Kasahara in "The Art and Wonder of Origami" mentions a series of folds
named "Marching Soldiers", with an enamel coating, that were made "some 100
years ago". According to him,