31 IVORY PLASTIC 1950 HAMKER GERMANY MARGARINE FARM PEOPLE, ANIMALS ETC ON STANDS

Shortly after Cracker Jack started putting plastic prizes in its popcorn product in the United States, plastic flats and stand-ups were inserted into packages of oleomargarine in Germany and other German speaking countries as an incentive for people to buy their brands beginning in 1950. Other retail products -- such as tobacco and alcohol -- used them also, but they were widely called "margarinfiguren" (EN: margarine figures). Eventually the margarine companies came to an agreement to stop putting prizes in the products, a practice that ended in 1954. In just a few years, hundreds of series of prizes were produced with thousands of individual shapes. background online and I have a whole bag of these...   MANY GREAT PIECES GO BY PICTURES..  we have work horses with wagons, we have children,  trees aside a tower, , a shepherd with his sheep, , gent in a canoe paddling,  buildings,  women working,, elderly couple, , sheep, , children with a goose, a wolf,  some Edekasonne writing under the stand ; one has Wagners margarine under the stand, , some Hamker Margarine,  some Hamker solo;  a nice thatched roof house I believe  lovely animals; , dog, , a woodcutter,  with Fri-Homa and wriiting;   all 31 pieces together go by pictures filed doll room shelf w inv 3 2022  will travel small packet airmail tracked or parcel in Canada