This card gave us the darkness at night, an extra hour all at once - and though at first we try to rally ourselves, as the people on this card are doing, but then we kind of give up and stay indoors.
To some extent our ardour for the great outdoors is dependent on the weather, for though we can indeed wrap up against the cold, few of us, not even dog owners, really want to go out and wander in the pouring rain
This set was issued in France, Germany, Holland, and Italy, but I only have the title of the French version which we feature today. I suspect that the Dutch may be "Evolutie van de Tijd", with the German as "Evolution der Zeit", and the Italian "Evoluzione del Tempo". However I have drawn a blank online by putting any of those terms in.
Curiously the make up of the set are the four seasons, plus the day and the night. The latter pair have blue sashes with the titles in and the "E" of "Evolutions" is not very easy to see , so if you are short one or both of those try looking for them online as "Volutions du Temps" and you could well be lucky.
Another little touch, which you may not have even noticed, is that on top of the sash there perches a bird - or a group of birds.
In addition, the cards in this set have a very unusual back, a scene, in sepia, and each card has a different back - covering four different views and stages of the packaging line, and then taking the stock off in carts and wheelbarrows,
- Le Printemps [springtime - rinsing the pots]
- L`Ete [summer - sealing the pots]
- L' Automne [Autumn - weighing and corking]
- L`Hiver [winter - the product on the way out of the works]
- Le Jour [the day - putting the product in pots]
- La Nuit [the night - packing the product in cases]
The order of the backs suggest that I have this in the wrong order, and maybe I have. They read better as Le Printemps, Le Jour, L`Ete, L` Automne (or maybe even these two reversed), Le Nuit and L` Hiver.