Question 2:
How are Turkeys connected with Thanksgiving?
In 1621, after a successful harvest, a group of colonists wanted to celebrate, so they made food from their crops. Then the story varies. Some say they also cooked the chickens they had brought with them, others say they had brought turkeys with them, and different others say they went out and hunted some of those pesky birds who ran wild and devastated their crops. The truth is nobody took notes and so all this is fiction, but it is a good story and it has led to the poor turkey being seen as fair game ever since.
What we do know is that there was a ceremony, and they asked the neighbours, the Wampanoag, who brought food to share. And that later on it all went pear and they ended up at war, and that was pretty much the end of the Native Americans` way of life and freedom.
This set was designed to fit in a hard back, 88 page album, which are fairly easy to acquire. However I do not know how the cards were distributed, or how many there were in a complete set. If you do, please tell.
I have also been unable to track down whether there are any other sets by this issuer, though searches only seem to find this one, and mostly stuck in the albums.
Finally, though someone less mathematically challenged may scoff, I do not know what was so special about 1951. I do know that Fritz Homann founded his first factory in Dissen in 1876, so that explains the first date, though not why the subjects on the cards date back further than this.
At that time it was a food production factory, and it appears that the food was margarine.
Then, later, they stopped making food and went over to producing what they call wood fibreboard, and we call hardboard. I thought that may be in 1951, and that these cards marked that changeover to an new industry - but the hardboard was first produced in the late 1940s.
So if anyone can fill in the blanks, please do!