Jeol Animals

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We saw this advertisement in a wildlife magazine back in 1977 (or 1978?). Surprisingly, a shop in the village stocked the animals for a few months that Summer. Naturally, we bought some. They are 1:32 scale, like Britains, except for the huge Giraffe, which is in-scale with the 1950's Lineol animals.

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Giraffe and Zebras.

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Elephant family. ... sadly, every male Elephant in the shop had broken tusks.

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Waterbuck and Impala.

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Lion family.

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Warthog and Bushpig.

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Hyaena and Leopard.

All the animals are marked with a copyright symbol, JEOL, and HONG KONG.

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Fantastic ones! For very long time I looked for any Jeol catalogue or model list, thank You very much for sharing these photos

Some "experts" and rarities hunters claimed some time ago that the Jeol company made "tigon" and "pygmy-elephant" but never presented any photo. Now is all clear: As visible, that tigon is lion cub with slightly simplified painting and pygmy-elephant is African elephant calf...

BTW: I never expect that I see the complete Jeol collection in the mint condition. Really great ones! Congratulation!

Thank you, jarda!

We have two of the lion cub and the spots on one of them have run together to look like stripes - this could be the basis for the theory that they made tigons.

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Wonderful animals!!! Big congratulations!!! The waterbuck is great but i think my zoo wants the new CollectA waterbuck. But the bushpig!!!! Great!!

You are sure that is a bushpig???? If yes, i have a new target!!!

That's very interesting. Thanks for posting this. Jeol has been one of the animal mysteries for some time to many of us.

Wow! I love waterbuck and impalas and hyena and giraffe and elephants and, and they are all beautiful I remember I searched any info about this brand just few days ago and couldn't find much and now You show photos here, wow! Thank You so much for photos and info Sue and Lesley
I wish I could find waterbuck from this brand one day for my collection
Andreas, CollectA waterbuck is different specie

I love the antelopes! fantastic

They are fabulous ! Fantastic ! Phenomenal !

I never heard about them before, so this is very, very interesting new information for me, too

Tahnkyou SO much

Wow! I love the giraffe! If it's in scale with the Lineol figurines does that make it in scale with the Schleich zebras?

These are true gems in your collection Lesley and Sue, I have the lioness lying and I love her very much

I've never even heard of this brand before! i love the antelope (of course) and agree with Harriet that the Lioness is wonderful.

Thanks for showing Sue and Lesley!
I didn't know the brand and I find all of them very nice!
The delicate legs of the giraffe and the warthog personality of the warthog!
Beautiful!

The waterbuck and impala are beautiful

You are so lucky to have the complete set! They all look great! Why don't you try making new tusks or the elephant? I would love to see him in his full glory!

Congratulation Sue and Lesley, what a gorgeous collection. I heard about JEOL a long time ago and never managed to catch one. The models are really fine

Thank you for sharing Did you know if they made non-African models ?

uff... giraffe is sooo pretty!!

Those are very nice animals

Glad everyone is finding this post useful!

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Harriet, here is a picture of the JEOL Giraffe, a 1950's Lineol Griaffe and a Schleich Zebra.

Christophe, we never saw or heard of any more JEOL animals. (We live in a small village with no toyshop, and there was no Internet back then!)

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Congrats Sue! The models are fine & best is to scale.

Thanks for the comparison picture! Really extraordinary!

I love the lioness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She's very charming! Like the body position of the warthog!

Also, meant to say, with most of the figures in the 1/32 scale, they look very nice when all displayed together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

castlerigg wrote:

Harriet, here is a picture of the JEOL Giraffe, a 1950's Lineol Griaffe and a Schleich Zebra.Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Thank you Sue and Lesley!!

Great models-its the first time I have seen them all since that advert.I remember it being on the back of a wildlife magazine.I have admired the antelopes for a long time and have seen them a few times on ebay but was always outbid!!I did manage to get one of the zebras and a lion cub on ebay!

Really nice collection, I have been looking for one of the waterbuck ever since I saw the first photos of them. Thank you so much for the photos, they are great!

Thanks so much for sharing these photos. It brings back so many memories of these elusive animals! They came out in the 70s but actually in the later years before they disapeared (late 1980s I remember seeing tubs of these at the Natural History Museum in London where each model around 25p-50p. I just remember being fascinated by the waterbuck and bought several over many trips there with my school. Then I lost all of them and regretted it!

Finally you have posted an article which puts it all into perspective and shows all the animals BUT I remember two things:

I remember that the tubs at the museum contained all the Jeol models pictured plus some other smaller animals like monkeys too. The article photo is from the 70s and some of the animals then were made of a brittle plastic HOWEVER in the late80s not only do i remember some newer animals, the plastic used was softer and the paintwork was much much better. I remember as the legs of the impala were very soft andsome models in the tub were deformed.

I remember all this because while the teachers showed other schoolkids some of the displays I kept running to the gift shop and playing/looking at these animals wishing I could buy them all........

thanks so much! WOuld be great to also see a later article or catalogue showing some of the other animals of which I am sure there were more!!