Jean is for Jacquet

Just a bit of a box-ticker! I picked these up a while ago, can't now remember where or why, split them with a mate, but shot them first and just sort of forgot them!

Foxy fox, from a set of woodland animals which include a hunter, deer, a pair of squirrels etc . . . and this chap, as far as I know the Jean originals were unpainted, although earlier ones might have been, and these for Jacquet were.

 

The rabbit, or hare? The Germans like their hares, especially at Easter, so he may be meant to be a hare, but he's sufficiently rabbit-like for me! Jacquet were a commercial baker.

 

What separates the French premiums from the Jean originals (apart from the paint) is a heat stamped 'brand' on the base stating Jacquet, along with the moulded W.Germany mark. That's it, box ticked, Jacquet added to the tag-list!