Card of the Day - 2026-03-30

Guerin Boutron Instruments de travail
Guerin Boutron Instruments de travail

As far as this set, it deals with tools and their uses, and there are a marvellous assortment of trades and equipment. Even better than that, you have a main image of the man or woman using the tools and the tools are also drawn separately on the front of the card.

And here are all the tools in the set, all eighty-four of them ...

  • L`Aiguille et la Fil [female seamstress with needle and thread]
  • L`Aiguille a tricoter [woman and knitting needles]
  • L`Archet [man in smock with bow saw]
  • La Batteuse a vapeur [farmers with steam threshing machine]
  • Le Battoir [woman with clothes beater]
  • La Beche [gardeners and rot cutting shovel]
  • Le Bisaique [joiner and chisel/mortise chisel]
  • La Bouclier des Terrassiers [tunnellers and rope drawn trolley for removing earth]
  • La Brouette [builder and wheelbarrow]
  • Le Broyeur a chocolat [chocolatier and cocoa grinder]
  • Le Burin [engraver and cold chisel]
  • La Canne du verrier [glass blowers and blowing tubes]
  • La Charrue [the plough]
  • La Chevre [builders with pulley winch]
  • Les Cisailles [roofer and tin snips]
  • Le Ciseaux [woodworker with chisel]
  • Les Ciseaux [tailor and scissors]
  • La Cognee [tree cutter and axe]
  • Le Composteur [printer with type blocks]
  • Le Crible [gold miner and dirt sieve]
  • Le Cric [stonemasons with hand winched lifting tool]
  • Le Crochet du portefaix [porter and luggage carrier]
  • La Drague [dredging boat]
  • L`Ebauchoir [sculptor and clay moulding tools]
  • L`Echenilloir [gardeners and long handled loppers]
  • L`Enclume [blacksmith and anvil]
  • L`Etau [workman and vice]
  • L`Excavateur [steam driven excavator]
  • La Faucheuse mecanique [farmer and grain harvester]
  • La Faucille [female cutting corn with handbill hook]
  • La Faux [farmers and the scythe]
  • Le Fendoir [butcher and meat cleaver]
  • La Fer a repasser [laundrymaid and flat iron]
  • Le Fer a souder [man with soldering iron]
  • Le Filet et la Harpon [fishermen, nets and a harpoon]
  • Le Fleau [farmers and the flail
  • La Forge Portative [workmen and portable brazier]
  • Le Four [potters and kiln]
  • La Fourche [farmer and forks]
  • La Gouge [woodcutter and chisel]
  • Le grue a vapeur [steam driven sand excavator]
  • Le Herse [farmer and horse driven harrow]
  • La Houe [farmer and hoe]
  • La Hotte du Vendangeur [back-mounted bucket for collecting grapes]
  • La Laminoir [metal workers and rolling mill]
  • La Lime [workman and file]
  • La Machine a percer [workmen and giant drill]
  • La Machine de coudre [seamstress with sewing machine]
  • Le Marteau et les Clous [case maker with hammer and nails]
  • La Marteau-Pilon [workers and drop hammer]
  • La Masse du sculpteur [stone-sculptor and hammer]
  • Le Metier a Fileau [seamstress with spinning wheel]
  • Le Metier a Tisser [weaver and loom]
  • La Meule d`aiguiser [knife grinder]
  • Le Moulin a farine [farmer and grain mill]
  • Le Niveau d`arpenteur [surveyor and theodolite]
  • Les Outils di cordonnier [shoemaker and his tools]
  • La Palette [artist and palettes]
  • La Pelle et la Proche de Terrasser [workmen with pick and shovel]
  • La Pelle du Boulanger [male baker and baker`s peels]
  • Le Perforateur a tunnel [miners with tunnelling device]
  • Le Pic de Mineur [miner and pick]
  • Le Pinceau [house painter and paint brushes]
  • La Presse a bras  [printer and hand press]
  • La Presse a vapeur [laundrymen and steam press]
  • Le Pressoir [farmer and winepress]
  • Le Rabot [carpenter and hand plane]
  • Le Rateau [gardener and rake]
  • Le Rouleau [farmer and roller]
  • La Scie a main [carpenter and hand saw]
  • La Scie de long [carpenters and a whipsaw]
  • La Scie de scieur de pierre [stonemason and stone cutting saw]
  • La Scie mecanique [carpenter and large table saw]
  • Le Secateur [lady gardener and secateurs]
  • Le Secateur [male gardener and secateurs]
  • Le Serpe [male gardener and pruning knife]
  • Le Soufflet du Forge [blacksmith and bellows]
  • Les Tenailles [metal worker and pincers]
  • Le Tissonnier et la Pelle a Charbon [boiler-workers with poker and coal shovel]
  • Le Tour du Mecanicien [machinist and lathe]
  • Le Tour du Potier [potter and potter`s wheel]
  • Le Treuil [miners and winch]
  • La Truelle [builder and trowel]
  • Le Vilbrequin [builder with hand cranked drill]