Q is for Question Time - Animal Flats

An odd one, as they are clearly not that rare, I have so many I split them between two bags, despite the fact that they clearly go together - as we'll see from the visible evidence, as well as the fact they came together in one or two sizable lots.

Domestic, farm and European wildlife/ woodland types, along with a couple of farmer types, colours are across the board and - with the semi-transparent ones - an air of French premiums about the whole lot, rather than German 'margarine flats'. Several of the sets shown in Piffret's Figurines Publicitaires have a similar colour-range, I seem to recall some puppies and birds - given away with petrol I think?

The wild or zoo animals; with a yeti, hunter and native bearer. Scale is all over the place, the bobcats looking a threat to the polar bears! I keep moving animals between the two bags, I think that white bird is a poor pheasant (as the red one is a peacock) so he got moved - along with the wild boar - when I put them away, and I'm still not sure about the curly-horned sheep/goat things! Also - odd that there's no elephant, but I may not have all of the poses.

There's a bit of paint on some of the animals in both bags, an accident on a work-bench rather than any factory thing, I suspect, but it's another reminder to me that they all belong together! If you found the figures in the lower picture, on their own, you'd be excused for thinking they were from a board game!

The sample is bigger than shown in the photo's and I'm pleased to report that there are some white polar bears! The alpine-sheep-goat thing; is it domestic or wild? I've left it in the wild pile for now.

Any ideas? These are from that Civilian-Farm-Zoo box we looked at briefly the other day, and tick all three boxes along with 'hunters'! From the size of the sample, the number of poses, the breadth of the subjects and the colour variation, I suspect something like bubble-gum, sweets, 'lucky-bags' or Wundertüten in the pocket-money bracket, issued over some time and with something purchased regularly; cigarettes, washing powder . . . 1950's or early-1960's and possibly French?