Nardi Animals in plastic

Date unknown, but 1970's catalogue (it's otherwise full of the 'swoppet' range).

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You can see they are the origins of several common Hong Kong piracies including the horses, the polar bear, the giraffe and he long, thin big cat (panther, leopard).

They are beautyful, even if perhaps not top-quality finish

I think I can recognise some old Elastolin/Plaho models , but am no expert, of course

Thankyou for sharing, this kind of catalogue is worth gold

Very very interresting Hugh, I only know Nardi for their composition animals, never knew they also made plastic stuff 

I recognise some of them, saw some monochromatic.

Great information, I've never seen these.

Thank you so much

Great pictures!

It is true that some molds are like those of some monochromatic figures mentioned by Christophe (I would say of French manufacture).
Some figures are missing on these pages, such as the trio of flamingo, pelican and stork.

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A boxed set of Nardi plastic zoo animal figures. The tree is marked Nardi. Original price sticker from Newberry's Dept Store was $1.99.

$1.99  I will buy ten 

It is very nice Jim, thank you for showing. 

Thank You - this was my first success at loading photos. I will attempt to make other posts of vintage plastic animal figures to share with fellow collectors.

Kikimalou wrote:

$1.99  I will buy ten 

It is very nice Jim, thank you for showing. 

But no dollar, Bitcoin!

junglejim wrote:

Thank You - this was my first success at loading photos.  I will attempt to make other posts of vintage plastic animal figures to share with fellow collectors.

Can not await that

Thank you for sharing this beautiful and useful box junglejim!

Here are some of the plastic Nardi, only the bears are missing I think. I also added comparison pics with monochrome animals from Feral. These are obviously copies of the Nardi but they are not exact copies, the figures are slightly thinner or smaller.
As far as I know the lioness, the elephant and the giraffe haven't been copied.

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Ohhhhh

Actually, the original complete Nardi box (edited in Italy) contains 22 pieces:

Elephant
Rhinoceros
Hippopotamus
Giraffe
Dromedary
Foreshortened fawn
Fawn in fear
Polar bear
Brown bear
Lion
Lioness
Tiger
Leopard
Black panther
Wolf
Pelican
Flamingo
Stork
Set of palm trees
Cactus 1
Cactus 2
Wooden fence

It's fun that NF made fawns and no deer or doe. Thank you for the info Ricardo, do you have pics of the missing ones ?

Another curious thing is that the flamingo and pelican molds, at least, were also used by an unknown brand for a single-color series.
I got a pelican and two flamingos a couple of years ago and Signatus studio painted me the second copy... really difficult work because it is a miniature...

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And something curious also is that, in Italy, a box was edited in a very similar format with the molds of the Chialù compo figures, but in plastic. Like the monochromatic figures that Panini published later, but in this case painted. Some of the molds were Chialù (zebra, porcupine, lion, anteater... ), others were a mix of other brands like Britains (African elephant, pelican,... )

Great ! never heard about the Chialù and mixed box.

I ahve another request for you  Could you make some individual pictures of the models missing on TAW so we could complete the plastic series ?

Unfortunately the figures in the image are not mine, in fact, the flamingo, the pelican and the stork from this particular series are on my wish list....