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C.B.B.V.D. GA: Two Different Sets

As I first catalogued a large number of cards that Bertrand Cocq had found for me, I scanned and commented on two cards from a set with the mark "C. B.B. V.D."  Later in my cataloguing, I found together three cards from a similar set, also with the mark ""C. B.B. V.D."  To my surprise, not only are the cards differently formatted but also differently numbered, so that this second set starts with a phase not in the first set, something like the cicada dealing with a carnival barker.  Enjoy noticing the little differences.  The verso in this set has the same information but different typeface.

1910?   Two numbered photographic postcards (from a set of ?) illustrating GA.  "C. B.B. V.D."  $20 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonee Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.

The dress of the "cicada" is similar to that in the Bergeret single photograph of this fable.  The ant is dressed differently but similarly employed, namely spinning at a wheel.  The series begins as La Fontaine does, with the cicada approaching the ant for help, though the poet introduces the fable with the background that the cicada had been singing all summer.  The second card then focuses, more quickly than La Fontaine does, on the ant herself.  Both cards include a greeting on the picture side: "Nous t'embrassons tous, Marie Madeleine."  On the second card, Marie Madeleine adds "Ta Fille."  It is tempting to try to decipher the date on the postmark.  So far I have failed!

GA #1

GA #2

1910?   Three numbered photographic postcards (from a set of ?) illustrating GA.  "C. B.B. V.D."  $30 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonee Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.

This set makes the change of having the cicada encounter a circus barker in the story's first phase.  The story then turns to what is the second card in the other version: a look at the ant, apparently hard at work spinning.  Then in third place comes the moment pictured first in the other set.  Notice the different placement of the fable's title in this #3 card.  As I noted then, the dress of the "cicada" is similar to that in the Bergeret single photograph of this fable. 

GA #1

GA #2

GA #3