Rewards of Merit
- Albums of Cards or Stickers
- Bonbon Cards
- Calendar Cards
- Calendar Wallet-Cards
- Chocolate and Chicorée Cards
- 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
- Non-Stock
- Stock
- Stock Series
- L Agence General Standard
- Alph. Babotte
- Beef Lavoix MM
- Bergougnan/Boutigny
- Beukelaer Anders Trade Cards
- A. Billon Florian
- Bouillon, Rivoyre et Cie
- Bouillon Children
- Au Camelia
- Carre, Pepin
- Arlatte-Printemps-Au Camélia
- Clamaron Blue MM
- J & P Coats Thread
- Depose
- Depot Centrale
- Aux Deux Passages
- Ch. Duffit and Dr. Guillié
- Ch. Duffit Blank Strip
- Empire Wringer Company
- Estey Piano
- Fables de Florian
- Florian Blue Border
- GA Au Gagne Petit and Remontey
- George W. Hayes
- German English
- Glucalcium Clevenot by Forguet
- Gold Background (cf. Picard, Babotte, Salmon)
- Huntington Pianos
- Jubile
- Kempenaar Oriental French
- Kempenaar Oriental Dutch
- H. Laas
- Lessertisseux Gold
- Liebig Offshoots
- Pilules Laxative Lucas
- V Morillon Perrette
- A. Norgeu
- Painkiller
- Aux Phares de la Bastille
- Pharmacie Normale
- Alcide Picard
- A. Pitron-L. Michel
- A la Place Clichy
- Plain Fables of La Fontaine Cards
- Raylambert 1
- Raylambert Série A
- Rousset-Reaux-Abbadie
- Royal Windsor
- Rivoire & Jeandet
- A la Samaritaine
- Universal Advertising Company Text-Box Cards
- Van Seleyn
- Leopold Verger Small
- Leopold Verger-Chicoree Haquet
- Chicorée Extra Single Cards Daniel Voelcker-Coumes à Bayon
- Chicorée Extra Double-Cards Daniel Voelcker-Coumes à Bayon
- Editions Wartel
- Wemple and Kronheim-WMF
- Wheeler & Wilson
- Wright's Pills
- Stock Singles
- Stock Series
- Trading Cards
- Other Cards
1880? 2 cards from the green set by Wemple and Kronheim, stamped "Reward of Merit." $2.50 each from Postcard Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Jan., '00.
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The Dog and His Master's Dinner |
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The Two Dogs |
These cards of "The Two Dogs" and "The Dog and His Master's Dinner" include a prose text of the fable on the back side. I believe that the two cards did not come from the same printing, since they use different typeface for "Reward of Merit" and since their ink's hue tends to green and to blue, respectively.
1880? 1 TH card from the above set by Wemple and Kronheim, stamped "Reward of Merit." $4 from Eloise DeCrescentis, Braintree, MA, through eBay, Nov., '02. 
This card, like the two above, includes a prose text of the fable on the back side. The color printing here may be among the best for Wemple and Kronheim cards. Here, as there, "Reward of Merit" tends to have some filigree work around it. It has the fancy "R" found in the card depicting "The Dog and His Master's Dinner."
1880? 2 more cards from the green set by Wemple and Kronheim, stamped "Reward of Merit" and then stamped again by Robinson Brothers' Picture Frames of Springfield, MA. $2 each.
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The Eagle, the Lamb, and the Crow |
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The Heron |
These cards of "The Eagle, the Lamb, and the Crow" and "The Heron" again include a prose text of the fable on the back side. Both the physical overstamping and the double function (reward of merit and advertisement) seem gauche to me.