Jean Höfler, a new old brand for me

Recently Philipp (PeGe) sent me some little figures. Among them were a dromedary, which was marked "W.Germany"



I searched Ebay for "plastik Tiere W.Germany" and found some more.
I bid a couple of Euros and..WON THEM ALL
The brand is named Jean Höfler and they were a wonderful surprise for me

I have already shown the kangaroo in the "Show us yours", here they all are with Westie, to show the size,





They are sort of smooth plastic, and very detailed for the size.
Especially the elefant and the moose are very beautyful, IMHO









The chim is great also, he looks like he has a sence of humour




The dromedary got a friend in a slightly differnet colour


The lion and tiger look very vintage


The bear is great too. Isn`t he ?


THANKYOU Philipp, for helping get my eyes open for these small beauties

Congratulations!!! The elephant is the best!!! Christophe says it is a forest elephant!!

Congratulation Susanne

West-Germany has a special place in my collection because I played with in the 1960's and 70's .

Jean Hoffler also made a woodland serie for the "Jacquet" rusks

Thankyou, Andreas
Yes, it may well be a forest elefant, the shape of the ears and the number of toes are not right, but the shape of the body surely looks like this wonderful, rare creature

WOW! Christope those models are fabulous !!!

Funny enough I just won some last night, but they are not painted



Ohhh, I hope to get that red deer some day...paint or not
Good to have something to keep looking for, as Croccobert says

Congrats! I like those rabbit-squirrels.

-Kristie

Lots of wonderful animals here. I have just two I think that were part of trads or gifts from friends in Europe.
I really like those forest animals, and hadn't seen that series before

Susanne, congratulations for your new additions! I like these figures! Thanks also Christophe for remembering that I have another fox to keep searching for it as Susanne Says!
Most of the figures have funny ears! :) The red deer stag is very beautiful indeed!

I forget I have the pheasant too

Nice to see you're addicted to them now,..i kept Bison and Elephant for me.
Forest elephant?Why?
Just because of the tusks?
Don't you think this is a kind of artefact of the time they were made?

Of course, it is a kind of artefact... Every model, new or old has some kind of artefact

Some looks like Savannah elephants and some more like Forest... And sometimes I need to choose

WOW! That pheasant

:) :)

Wonderful additions..¡

Other old animals lots.Very hard to get,congratulations.

Wow they're beautiful, so detailed and realistic, I love the elephant and bear!! Congratulations Susanne your photos are excellent too

Congrats on your first Jean models Harriet!
The correct name is Jean Höffler indeed.
Often, whennot mostly marked with West-Germany, as it was still West-Germany in that time.
I had lots of them in the 1960's and 1970's, although i didn't like them so much, as they were to flat and colourless, which is true of course, and i was already spoiled with better models, although mostly copies of more known brands.
Like Christophe mentioned, they were sold or given away in France, marked with Jacquet, and here in the Netherlands branded with the name "De Gruyter", which was a supermarket chain in that time.
Besides the farm-, zoo-, and forest-series, they made cowboys and Indians, knights, and lots of accesoires belonging to all of these series.
Often they were packed in blisters, sometimes boxes for bigger models and sets, marked with the brand "Big", the logo was a kind of longhornbull.
I want to show you here my collection of them, not to take over your tread, but to show you the wide range in models they made.


Forest-Set, not in my collection, just to show you, i do have most of the animals













































































I still miss the fox and the seal.

Thankyou vey much, Willy, both for the info and the pictures !

I got some new ones, - and...even better : Yvette has helped me getting some wonderul farm animals also.

Thank you Susanne and Willy for sharing. Those are really interesting figures! I do like the stalking fox (and the fellow walking with his dachshund(?), very charming). But there are so many of the figures that are interesting. Willy, I hope you get a hold of the fox and the seal.

They are beautiful, I love the pheasant! Thanks for sharing, Willy and Susanne! :)
Willy, I hope you find a seal and 2 foxes!

Many thanks Susanne and Willy for sharing these images and information.

Chris

Welcome you all!
But i like your pictures to of course!
I forgot that i miss the roe-deer doe to, it is on the very first pic of the forest set indeed.
Besides that, those colour-variations, and variations of what is under the model, West-Germany, Jaqcuet or De Gruyter.
I don't hunt for them specially, or i must see something special in a lot.
Mostly they are very cheap to get, otherwise in mixed lots of the 1960's and 1970's.
I love to buy those big lots and boxes, always some goodies in them!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

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I love to buy those big lots and boxes, always some goodies in them!

And I love to see when you get one, - SO interesting to see the expert going through a bunch of pepples and finding diamonds

SUSANNE wrote:

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

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I love to buy those big lots and boxes, always some goodies in them!

And I love to see when you get one, - SO interesting to see the expert going through a bunch of pepples and finding diamonds

Meteorites from big fireball spark 'gold rush'

http://news.yahoo.com/meteorites-big-fireball-spark-space-age-gold-rush-133329169.html

Yesss ! Willy at work

Awesome everyone!! Very neat figures!! Love the rabbit, elephant and bear in particular! I'm strangely draw to th cage for some reason.....

Thanks guys!
Yes, i can be a real golddigger sometimes indeed!
My eyes are always open for some bargains, and not only in this field!
I love fleamarkets, but stupidly enough, i almost never visit them, maybe because i know how much goodies there are, and how much money i would spend...
And money is the thing which is limited since about 13 years, so i have to do with what i have available...
But that makes the hunt even more exiting sometimes, and when you get something you want badly, for a very nice price, or even a bargain, my heart starts to jump!

Others sets, wich you can see HERE