This is believed to be the first series of these cards ever issued, if only because there is no actual series number - though we are now not so sure that these were issued as a trial run and then the rest, with the series number, came along later. That is because on the back of the cards in this set it already lists "Nos Autres Series", which means our other series, and those are listed as Le Champ d`Aviation (the airfield), Le Chemin de Fer (the railway station), L`Ecole (the school), Le Course d`Autos (the motor car racetrack) and La Chasse (the hunt). These are indeed the first six sets, and we know that the second six sets are listed at least on set seven, which seems to point to them being issued in two batches.
Anyway we still think this was first, and so it becomes the home page for all time for these intriguing cut-out cards, some of which we have already featured (click the titles in bold for the link) - a full list of which is as follows :
- La Ferme [the farm - not identified as series one anywhere on the card.]
- Le Champ d`Aviation [the airfield]
- L`Ecole [the school],
- Le Chemin de Fer [the railway]
- La Course d`Autos [the motor race]
- La Chasse [the hunt]
- Premiere Traversee du Sahara [first crossing of the Sahara] - diary card for Tuesday 3 December 2024
- d`un Paquebot [leaving by boat]
- Un Match de Rugby [a rugby match]
- L`Exposition Coloniale [the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, held in Paris]
- Les Regates [the regatta]
- `Escadre [the Navy]
On our card, and all the other series, it gives the title of the set, and "Collection de 10 Sujets" - this is not entirely correct as though there are ten cards, there are often more than one cut out figure on each card, and they are individually numbered, on the tab at the bottom, with those numbers corresponding to the drawing/plan on the back of all the cards as to where the models should be placed after they have been cut out - though it ought to be, of course, entirely up to the owner where they do this, allowing for scale, of course. On all the other sets there is also a large number on the front of our card, which is the series number, and this appears on all the cards in that series.
In our series the figures are, for the most part, not individually named or numbered on each cut out figure, they are only numbered once on the card, either on the white, or in the tab. And on the reverse the figures are not numbered at all, which means that I can only enter the ones I have personally seen in the actual list, the others are below, to be fitted in as I find them, or as you let me know what number they are and how they are combined
- the farmhouse
- (a) chickens by a cart (b) chickens pecking the ground
- two cart horses, tacked up
- two cows by a trough
- (a) woman feeding chickens (b) three ducks
- (a) pigs at a trough (b) pigs running
- (a) shepherd with four sheep (b) two sheep
- the stable (probably number 2)
- a dog and a kennel
- a child with a chicken
- two single chickens
- five ducks