And not just any old erasers, but that the bulk of them are probably Diener Industries, one way or another, the other factor being that they are also French premiums, but may, due to petroleum, also be British! I picked these up a few at a time, every time I passed the chap's stall, and wish now I'd hoovered up the last few, but they were mostly duplicates, I think!
These are probably not
Diener, as they are proper eraser-rubber, but I thought they'd go very well with the
Lik Be (that's
LB of course!) and
Holly anthropomorphic musicians, in a future comparison post / battle of the animal bands! They are also pencil-tops.
These are all clearly marked
Diener Ind., with a '(C)' mark, and are a mix of generics,
Disney, cute and a
Fontanini clown-sculpt knock-off, along with an Easter basket of bunnies! And they may well belong to several sets, or even some of the sets below, as explained as we go.
These are unmarked, but are manufactured in the same smudgy silicon-rubber of all
Diener's 'erasers', which were always shit erasers, as they just smudged pencil around the page, leaving everything looking awful! Again, they could be from more than one set, but the paint ties them into the premiums below. The red kitten is a slightly different sculpt to the yellow one in the previous shots - head moved to ease undercuts?
I can't work out if this is supposed to be some kind of anthropomorphic Viking, or a French TV character? Nor is it clear if it's damaged, poorly fettled or had a charm/key-ring loop removed?
These two, both
Disney, are marked
Esso and
Disney Prod., and were a set of premiums, given away with
Esso fuels, defiantly issued in France, the complete sets are to be found in the pages of Jean Piffret's book
Figurines Publicities, but, as I think I've mentioned before, we had some when we were kids, not from this set, but from the set of woodland (or other) animals, some of which are in the upper shots.
Indeed, the slightly Beatrix Potter'esque pricklepin in the same flesh pink as the odd figure above, is one of the items on my nostalgia wants list, as it was in my pencil case until I was far too old to have affection for such things! And the three little pigs would also go with the other musical mammals!
While these are just marked
(C) Walt Disney Prod., but you can see where the
Esso has been obliterated on the tool, so there was probably a commercial issue too, at some point.
Therefore, I think a couple of the sets annotated by Piffret, as French, were issued here, also with Esso, at some point around the late 1960's or early 1970's, possibly without the paint highlights of the French and more commercial Diener issues. There were more sets issued as premiums in France, though?
Four other, non-
Diener, non-
Esso types, with, from the left a grotesque facemask pencil top, this was probably from the era of cereal-premium totem-pole funny-faces and the semi-flat African mask charm type premiums. Next is a vampire, or
Dracula type, in his casket, and just waking-up, by the look of it!
The footballer is bigger that the Hong Kong painted ones, issued as either key-rings or pencil-tops, but may have been the inspiration for them, and he is a pencil top too! While the 'finger fright' rubber-jiggler just came with them to make a round-number! The first three being, again, 'proper' eraser-rubber.
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