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AUBURN
Like other toy figure makers of the 1950s & 60s Auburn packed their items in a wide array of styles including; small cellophane bags, small boxes, header card bags and boxed playsets. Designed to be able to sell to any budget. The later (Deming, New Mexico)header card sets as seen above used a generic card with the item number and set type stamped on the front
Ball peen hammer head, rubber like vinyl. 
Auburn made a nice Noah's Ark with; Noah, his wife and an assortment of wild and forest animals.
Where to put all of the wild animals is a question. The Geppert Guide may not be right. The Noah's Ark/ Jungle animals were made in; blue, white, red and yellow, but the "Forrest Animals" were also made in red, white and yellow so who knows.
Cabins and wagons
FARM ITEMS
Auburn made hard rubber animals from the late 1940s through the early 1950s. They then switched to the more well known rubber like vinyl animals. When found today these early animals often have warped bases, stress cracks and/or chunks missing.
Early hard rubber animals
Auburn farm Implements were made of rubber like vinyl.
Later Auburn Tractors 
Farm Animals
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Small header card bag seen on left above. Deming New Mexico production. Has four vinyl animals.
Larger header card bag seen on right above. Also Deming New Mexico production. Has three soft plastic animals + vinyl cow and horse. Horse not seen often in white.
Tim Geppert in his seminal plastic figure guide breaks the farm animals into two groups. However upon close inspection there appear to have been 3 or even 4 groups of these animals made. The first group has flat unmarked oval/rectangle bases and you can see mold ejector pin markings on one side of the animal from when the figure was popped out of the mold. Perhaps to get rid of these ejector marks the animals were redone and the ejector pins were relocated to push the animals out from under the base leaving one or two "dimple" marks. Then finally, perhaps to conserve material, animals were made with small irregular bases (also with the ejector dimples under the base). Some animals have "MADE IN USA" 
inside one of the dimples. The following pictures show animals by type and we undoubtedly are missing some variations. Usually found in rubber like vinyl, but later examples were made in soft plastic.
WHITE VINYL ANIMALS AND FIGURES SEEM TO PICK UP DIRT AND SO MAY NEED TO BE CLEANED
Animals will be rubber like vinyl unless noted SP for soft plastic polyethylene
Earlier horses have a bit of factory applied black paint to the top of their backs.
Earlier cows have a bit of factory applied black paint to the top of their backs.
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14 bright yellow farm animals in 14 poses. If these don't glow in the dark they should.
Swap head horse. 
The above photo shows how Auburn animals were also packaged and sold. The Happi-Time logo was a SEARS catalog designation and Marx farm items sold by Sears also used the name. The later 50s/60s soft plastic under scale barn was sold containing maybe 20 of the medium and small farm animals. The bottom swings down for access, and their is a window in the roof.
Chicken Coop
Cow Stall, black SP. 
FLAT BOX STYLE OF PACKAGING
FRONTIER FIGURES
Auburn made their frontier figures in two molds. One mold made 12 figures on foot including the; four pioneers, two settlers and six Indians with the pose holding hatchet and knife made in duplicate. The other mold made the two mounted figures and two horses.
One mold shot of six had one of each of the coonskin cap foot figures + the woman settler with bag and man settler with ax.
Indians
Indians made in red soft plastic were sold with cowboys in header bags. One mold shot of six foot Indians had 2 of the pose with tomahawk and knife and one of each of the other four poses.
Forest Animals
Cowboys
Accessories were made in green and red.
Military Items
Early Jeep/Cannon sets were all one piece and you were supposed to cut the pieces apart. Later issue sets were made as two piece sets with towing hitches.
MODERN CIVILIAN FIGURES
- #875 24 Piece Figure Assortment. Vinyl.
- Fire Hydrant.
- Fork Lift.
-TOY SHOP remnant seller header bag, 4 diggers + tools.
- Police car, SP, One set of wheels wrong.
- Motorcycle cop, blue with yellow wheels.
- Auburn wholesaled construction figures in green to Buddy L.
Locomotive. 
Farm vehicle with damage. 
The early figures were made of pink rubber like vinyl while later figures were made of red soft plastic as seen above.
Marx may have made many Disney items but Auburn also got in the game.
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