Was it "Kresce", or "Kresge"? S. S. Kresge, Co, was an American department store chain, which grew and eventually became K-Mart. It merged with Sears and is now "Sears Holding Company", the parent of the K-Mart and Sears brands.
If that was the original package, that places those metal figures in the mid-70s back to the 60s.
The plastic ones may be later copies of the metal figures.
The Italian company Fontanini created 12CM statuettes for the tourist trade and export market which were sculpted by Elio Simonetti. The company Canè Giocattoli srl pantographed four Fontanini figures to a smaller size and had the sculptor make a fifth (center figure in package below). The Canè figures were made in plastic. They are still available in the US as bagged sets uf 10 figures in 5 poses.
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