This is not an actual duck but it is a really lovely image, and it is one of a series, of twelve cards showing the months of the year with different animal images And the image in the small oval beside the Huntley & Palmers name is also important as it is the zodiac sign for that month -
- Janvier - Les Etrennes - Le Verseau (January - New Year`s Day - The water bearer/Aquarius) : a monkey with shopping, advert "Sponge Rusks" or "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Fevrier
- Mars - Le Premier Soleil - Le Belier (March - The first sunshine - The ram/Aries) - a pair of cats in London, advert "Sponge Rusks"
- Avril - Les ouefs de Paques - Le Taureau (April - Easter Eggs - Taurus) - a chicken with a basket, advert "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Mai - Le Retour des Hirondelles - Les Jumeaux (May - the Swallows return - Gemini) swallows flying in with suitcases, advert "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Juin - La Peche - L`ecrevisse (June - Fishing - crayfish?/) - a frog with a creel and rod, advert "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Juillet - Les Bains de Mer - La Lion (July - the seaside - Leo) - a duck and ducklings in bathing costume, advert "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Aout - Les Chaleurs - La Vierge (August - the heat - Virgo) - a band of musical bugs, advert "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Septembre
- Octobre - Les Vendanges - Le Scorpion (October - the grape harvest - Scorpio) - a fox with a basket of grapes, advert "Sponge Rusks" or "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Novembre - Preparatifs d`Hiver - Le Sagitaire (November - preparing for winter - Sagittarius) - a bear with a chicken and rat on a pole? Maybe its not a bear?, advert "La Gaufrette Vanille"
- Decembre - L`Hiver - Le Capricorne (December - Winter - Capricorn) - white bears gathering wood, advert "Sponge Rusks" or "La Gaufrette Vanille"
I still need some of these, but lost more than nine minutes last night watching the X Files, twenty three years to the day after it was first shown on American tv. Still as good as ever. What can I say.