D is for Oh Deer!

One of the problems with trying to sort Festival from Gem, is that the Gem catalogues in Plastic Warrior's Gem special don't list everything Gem, and there is - as yet - no Festival catalogue, while the Culpitt salesman's sample-case - of which a couple have turned-up over the years - mixes both marques, along with Hong Kong; drawer by drawer, as they are laid-out in the trays thematically - with Culpitt order-codes.

Case in point; all the above are marked Festival, I don't know another chalkey, early 'British' white (or brown) polyethylene deer of this type, not already ascribed to someone else, yet the Gem catalogue clearly states X3 – Reindeer as part of its Christmas line. They must have sent-out the Festival-marked animal?

The yellow plastic candle-holder seems to be from a small Easter range (which may include the yellow Snowbabies?), he also comes in Christmas white, while the brown robin is also available in Yellow as an Easter chick!

Gem or Festival? They are all marked Festival! The brown plastic ones seem less common, could they have been a tool-run for Gem? Not that it looks much like a reindeer, more a woodland or downland species? Really it's a 'Christmas' deer, isn't it? And they're all George Musgrave!