OK, I wanted to give you an update regarding this matter.
I contacted Norman Brosterman. This was his answer: "I have folds dated
1874 from St. Louis. Made by American kindergarten teachers."
A member on the list offered helping me contact Joan Sallas. Hopefully he
has pictures of Senff's models
Jose Tomás replied to my question about if the "Marching Soldiers" in
display in the toy museum of Nuremberg might be the oldest preserved folds.
Thank you Jose Tomás : )
JT: "Joan Sallas found some of the Senff's models in Dresden"
Do you know the free ebook "An Origami Army of the Past" by
Dear Gerardo July 9, 2016
Thanks for raising the question again! Here are 2 possibilities for
European examples.
The oldest preserved fold that I've seen is the traditional Seed Packet in
the Linnaeus Museum/Botanical Garden, Uppsala, Sweden.
http://www.linnaeus.se/link3.html It's very small
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,
