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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

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!

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