This amazing part monochrome and part colour card shows us marine life below the sea, and a seaside image above, both linking the two together, and also saying, look what you are missing out on your trips to the seashore.
Many thanks to Mr. Sparks for this card, and also for telling us that the rest of the set are just as beautifully coloured, and a delight to look at. The little monochrome vignettes also differ on each card. A double treat.
However he does take issue with the given title, because the octopus and starfish are not plants. He much prefers "At the Seaside", because the vignettes show a land view and the coloured pictures reveal what is going on beneath the sea, out of their view.
Now do note that many dealers and cataloguer, including chromo.be, split the set into two, often calling them A and a B.
This set consists of :
- Actinia Mesembryaleum - the common smooth anemone - two children poking a bucket in the water (B)
- Actinoloba Dianthus - sea anemone - a girl and boy with a bucket (A)
- Anthea Virides (wrong on the card - it is Viridis) - snakelocks anemone - a couple in the rain run for cover beneath an umbrella (B)
- Argonauta Argo - greater argonaut octopus - girl striding up beach with boat behind (A)
- Bunodes Gemmacea - gem anemone - a lady in a cap and bathing dress, two people behind (B)
- Citopus Vulgaris - common octopus - beach hut and people hidden beneath umbrellas (A)
- Corallium Rubrum - red coral, or precious coral - a straw hatted boy fishing from a jetty (B)
- Cucumaria Doliolum - a sea cucumber which seems to have no other name - a lady looking into the distance (B)
- Echinaster Sepositus - orange finger starfish - a boy and girl leaning against a pear which stretches into the distance (A)
- Psammechinus Microtubercu - green sea urchin - four children watching boats come in (A)
- Rhizostoma Cuvieri - barrel jellyfish - two boys digging in the sand (B)
- Tealia Crassicornis - mottled anemone - boy and girl riding donkeys (A)
All the backs are identical.