This card shows a tall ship, but more than that, it has a touch of gentle humour. And the name "Wind Jammer" has rather a joke, or perhaps more a jibe, about it, for it was the name given by more modern sailors to these majestic and stately, but also rather lumbering, ships, which took rather a long time to unload, and so they held up the traffic into the harbour, "jamming" them up.
It is clear from the typography that this set is late 1920s or early 1930s. It is definitely very different from the set of birds which we featured as our Card of the Day for the 21st of March, 2025 - though the relief of constipation is still at the forefront.
There is a rudimentary list, which, for the time being, is numbered, though the cards are not. That is only because it will be easier for me to see if we are nearing a round number and possibly a complete set. So those known so far are :
- Au clair de la lune
- Bon voyage Mr. Dumollet
- Cadet Rousselle
- Fanfan le Tulipe
- Il etait une bergere
- Il etait un petit navire
- Le bon roi Dagobert
- Le Mere Michel
- Malbrough s`en va t`en guerre
- Sur le pont d`Avignon
I was at nine, but then a reader added Mr. Dumollet - so perhaps we are looking at a set of twelve, missing two. If any one else can add any, please do.