Suchard Series 116 Landscape Cards
- Albums of Cards or Stickers
- Bonbon Cards
- Calendar Cards
- Calendar Wallet-Cards
- Chocolate and Chicorée Cards
- Chocolaterie Ackermans/Alpha-Omega "Venus"
- Aiguebelle
- Chicorée Extra "A la belle Jardinière"
- Besnier
- Bon Point Chocolat Corona
- Debauve & Gallais
- Grondard
- Chocolat Guérin-Boutron Mechanical Cards
- Lococq Album Chromos Series
- Chicorée à la Ménagère Cards
- Menier
- Chocolat Payraud Cards
- Chocolat Payroud Scraps
- Poulain
- Chocolats Félix Potin
- Poulain Orange
- Le Royal Chocolat
- Le Royal and Chocolat Poulain
- Ruelle Chocolates
- Maison Salmon in Nantes
- Stollwerck
- Suchard
- Chicorei Talpe
- Chicorei Talpe Dierenfabels
- Tonimalt Circular Cards
- Chocolat de l'Union
- Verkades Reintje de Vos
- Chicorée Williot
- Cigarette Cards
- 2003 Disney Villains Cards
- Double-Vision Multiplication Tables Card
- Fable Cards
- Game Cards
- Card Games
- Greeting Cards
- Gum Cards
- Hidden Picture Cards
- Note Cards
- Decks of Cards
- Pop-Out Cards
- Postcards
- Prize Cards/Bon Points
- Proverb Cards
- Shadow Cards
- Stereopticon Cards
- Stitching embroidery cards
- Tarot Cards
- Tea Cards
- Telephone Cards
- Trade Cards
- Trading Cards
- Other Cards
1905? 12 numbered French cards of La Fontaine fables from Chocolat Suchard. 2 3/8" x slightly more than 4". $63 from Marie Foreman, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, through Ebay, Feb., '02. The last two cards for $10 from Albert Van den Bosch, Antwerp, Belgium, April, '13.
These small landscape-formatted cards offer beautiful colored pictures of human scenes exemplifying animal fables. The picture-side includes "Chocolat Suchard," a number up to 12, and a title. The verso, sometimes showing a glue-tear, comes in four different patterns. In each of the patterns, a title and excerpts from the fable occur beneath an elaborate monocolor floral or animal background, "Neuchatel, Suisse," and mention of London, Paris, and New York offices. The addresses are the same in each format. Each format also mentions "Exposition Universelle Paris 1900 Grand Prix." The colored illustration cleverly includes both the animal scene and some Suchard product into the human scene. Even a bridge and a road bear the Suchard name! Do not miss in "Les Deux Coqs" the dramatic confrontation of two men in the farmyard, while a young woman looks on. The joker in FC is about to lure the Suchard chocolate from the vain dandy who carries it. The scene in "Le Rat et l'Huitre" is complex. A boy stealing packages of Suchard chocolate is about to experience the jaws of an attacking dog, just as the rat probing an oyster is about to have the oyster snap shut on his or her head!
Click on any card to see it enlarged. Because of the quality of these illustrations, I have made them larger on the screen than they would appear in the hand.
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FG | DW |
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Cat and Mouse | Les Deux Pigeons |
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2P | TMCM |
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L'Ane Portant des Reliques | Les Deux Coqs |
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WL | Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles |
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Le Rat et l'Huitre | FC |
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Les Deux Pigeons Verso | Les Deux Coqs Verso | WL Verso | Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles Verso |
