Not a full set, I could cut-n-shut a few
from around the internet, but that would lower me to Giselle's level, equally;
I could show his under the implied ten-for-one rule, but as you can see - they really
aren't that exciting!
As with a lot of these sets (there are
many; flat and semi-flat) it's an odd mix of mostly African species with the
odd Eurasian or American animal thrown in and the almost de rigueur Polar Bear and
Kangaroo/Wallaby. The gorilla (if that is its designation) is the oddest
sculpt; looking more like some kind of an early prehistoric-hominid!
A couple of duplicates in close-up, along
with the lion and tiger, the small deer in a darker 'Ivorene' and a donkey who
is paler, and greyish and belongs to the Nativity set from Nadi where he bears witness to the birth of the little baby Jesus. The
horse is rather fine I think; not that finely detailed, but quite expressive.
Someone - Ludo I think (but don't blame him
if I'm wrong) - had tied these flecked/marbled-plastic ones into British
Petroleum, also as premiums, but French service stations I suspect, not our BP 'garages', I don't remember these
back in the day, but if they were issued in the 1950's they would have been
pretty scarce by the time I was paying attention to such things in the late
1960's, so they may have been issued here too?
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