So here we have something that the groundsman is not so pleased to see, Mr. Mole, who comes along and raises his mighty earthworks right slap bang in the middle of the formerly level and green playing surface.
This is a lovely little mole, so it is a shame that the title translates to "Fur Bearing Animals", in other words ones that at one time generally ended up as a coat being sported by someone who ought to know better.
Its also a super card, though quite thin,so probably more paper than card.
And we know it was issued more than once as well because you can find three versions
- reverse headed by "Les Animaux a Fourrures" and with the final lines of "pour vous permettre de collectionner ses 40 nouvelles series d`images. Vous pourrez, aussi, gagner des jolis cadeaux"
- reverse headed only by "Taupe" (but the card is definitely not cut down), and with the final lines of "pour vous permettre de collectionner ses 40 nouvelles series d`images. Vous pourrez, aussi, gagner des jolis cadeaux"
- reverse headed by "Les Animaux a Fourrures" but with the final line of just "pour vous permettre de collectionner ses 40 nouvelles series d`images"
This seems to be because the full text on versions one and two translates to "Allow us to let you collect our 40 new series of images. You can also win some lovely prizes.", whereas the text on version three has no mention of the competition or the prizes, so were obviously re-issued after that had closed.
As far as the cards that make up the forty, some of those are...
- Agneau Astrakhan (astrakhan lamb)
- Castor (beaver)
- Chinchilla
- Hermine (ermine)
- Loutre (otter)
- Martre (marten)
- Petit Gris (grey squirrel)
- Putois (polecat)
- Renard Argente (silver fox)
- Vison (mink)
- Zibeline (sable)