A Starlux mystery... any further info?

Thanks for all information provided, @Caracal recently opened a few topics showing reused moulds of vintage French figures, I may link our French friend to this topic.
Roger, thanks for all the informations provided and for noticing that the Starlux fox was missing at the wiki, I have no idea who is that editor into foxes but if I find him, I'll bite him.
@Susanne, your mobile phone pictures are very good. You can always use Fidda as a tripod, I'm sure she won't move a little.

Kosta, thanks ! Good to know it is not just me
I'll try to think of something to hold the phone stable .

Wow, Roger, brilliant ideas

Roger wrote:

I used a better scale and figured that in fact foxes have different weights, enough to conclude that unlikely it is just a painting variation.
Original Starlux is 5,4 g and misterious fox is 4,2 g, 25% lighter than the original. Also, I searched in an exaustive way for Starlux foxes and I am not able of finding any other looking like the misterious one.
Some examples:

Susanne's
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Thierry's
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Kiki's picture
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Rogério, I had never seen this "fox souvenir" before this one. I checked on my french forum "Soldat plastique 1/32"  but there is none although  there are many with red deers, chamois, bears, dogs, roe deers, flamingoes, camargue bulls, gardians..

 If this fox is lighter than the common one, it's because it 's surely made with polystyrene plastic rather with acetate one.

 Would you allow me to transfer your picture with the complete "fox souvenir" on "Soldat plastique " forum?.. for I am sure it will interest a lot the others animal collectors like us! :)

some of my "Starlux souvenirs":

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These were sold in gift shops from mountaneous areas like Alps and Pyrenean mountains..

Caracal wrote:

Rogério, I had never seen this "fox souvenir" before this one. I checked on my french forum "Soldat plastique 1/32"  but there is none although  there are many with red deers, chamois, bears, dogs, roe deers, flamingoes, camargue bulls, gardians..

 If this fox is lighter than the common one, it's because it 's surely made with polystyrene plastic rather with acetate one.

 Would you allow me to transfer your picture with the complete "fox souvenir" on "Soldat plastique " forum?.. for I am sure it will interest a lot the others animal collectors like us! :)

some of my "Starlux souvenirs":

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These were sold in gift shops from mountaneous areas like Alps and Pyrenean mountains..

Wonderful souvenirs, Alain! I'm glad you've found this topic. Interesting the info about materials.
The fox with the fir is one model and the fox without the fir is another model. They are three iff we count the original Starlux.
Of course you can use any of my pictures wherever you want.
There is also this picture.
I received this one from the Netherlands while the figure with fir I received from Bulgaria.
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Thank you very much Rogério, I am sure this piece will produice a great surprise!.. above all coming from Bulgaria! :)

found on a flea market on this morning:

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.. a souvenir from Saint Etienne Vallée Française, a village in Cévennes moutains (Occitanie)

What an unusual and beautiful model! And two animals in one, would be great for dioramas!

Very nice. Do you have an idea what St. Etienne V.F. and the musical horn refer to?

Thank you Bonnie and Roger! :)


Roger, St Etienne V.F. is a village (Saint Etienne Vallée Française) situated in a hunting area.. this horn is a hunting horn used for "chasse à courre" :)

WOW !!! What a great find !!!

Two old Starlux models, lovely quartz crystals, a Waldhorn, artificial wood
It is really, really ugly, but also just enormously charming ... I LOVE it

rogerpgvg wrote:

Very nice. Do you have an idea what St. Etienne V.F. and the musical horn refer to?

The horn is a Waldhorn, I think, used for signals when hunting in wood areas.

St. Etienne is a city in the south east of France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-%C3%89tienne

yes Susanne ugly but so kitsh!

"St Etienne Vallée Française" is a small village in Cévennes moutains. There are a lot of "St Etienne" in the whoole France! :)

Caracal wrote:

   yes Susanne ugly but so kitsh!

  "St Etienne Vallée Française" is a small village in Cévennes moutains. There are a lot of "St Etienne" in the whoole France! :)

Ahh, I see , so it could also be other places, - the souvenir is surely from an area with mountains and wood

About the horn , - here is a picture of my fathers brother-in-law ( Albin Svensson) blowing " Hunt over" on the simple kind of Waldhorn, that we call a Hunt-horn in Danish ( Jagthorn) .
The horn has no valves and is extremely difficult to play,- I am sure it sounded horrible  
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The picture must be from about 1930, and is from a book that his daughter wrote about this amazing man.
He was a gamekeeper/ hunter and had an eternal fight with the poachers back then.

Don't they look fun

Even if the subject is not of our likings. I assume the piece is very beautiful! I'd get it also if I had the chance. Thanks for sharing and for influencing Susanne to post such a cool vintage picture.

Thank you Rogério, now, this area is a national parc in which hunting game is strictly controled! :)

Interesting

Thanks for the explanation (I forgot to read the one under the photo). Great picture of your ancestor, Susanne. An interest in animals is clearly a family trait - though I don't suppose you hunt.

Thank you Andreas and Roger! :)

rogerpgvg wrote:

Thanks for the explanation (I forgot to read the one under the photo). Great picture of your ancestor, Susanne. An interest in animals is clearly a family trait - though I don't suppose you hunt.

No ! I never ever hunt - except for flies and wasps when they come inside the house, and ticks, if I find them on myself or my pets.
But both my parents did, - my mother stopped, though, when one day she actually killed an animal