CLAIRET, some Old French Stuff came in for Februari 2011...

I found some older French models on ebay-fr a few weeks ago.
In this lot was a sitting tiger from Clairet, the odd gorilla(from which i had one already), or human ancestor, and the Austrich are French to i think, but even Christophe doesn't know them, so this is a thing we have to find out.
Here they are:

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Clairet Tiger sitting.
I love it very much, so much nostalgic in it...

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The gorilla, or human ancestor...

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The austrich.

They are all made in the same brittle hardplastic as Clairet and Starlux.

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All 3 together for the scale.

The main problem with Clairet, and Blancherie Fréres, is they didn't made a catalogue with pics so it is uneasy to know sometimes... But those two companies had a recognizable style...
The other problem is a lot of smaller French companies produced animals in hard plastix in the 1950's and 60's.

Here is the "gorilla-missing link" from Clairet and his copy from wendal.

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and the Clairet ostrich

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I the tiger sitting, gorgeous, congratulations Willy

Thanks for the info mon ami!
And thanks for the compliment Harriet, i do like the tiger very much to!