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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Q is for Question Time - D is for Dutch?

Anyone recognise these, they have something of Der Struwwelpeter about them, and yet are polystyrene so can't be any earlier than the 1930's, while Struwwelpeter is from the mid-19C? Also, they look like they might be identifiable characters, from some artwork or another . . . 
 

. . . .even Struwwelpeter itself, I know there have been several illustrated versions over the 170-odd years of it's run? While the three figures are caricature-like, and the duck seems deliberately comedic, the rabbit and hens are really quite normal-looking!
 
For some reason I'm thinking Dutch more than the German of the original book, and while the French too had their 'sabots', there must also have been other books! Factory-painted polystyrene, about 80mm for the figures? Any ideas?

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