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R.S. Les Belles Décalcomanies

1950?  "les belles décalcomanies," two sets, each with 16 "transfer pictures" of La Fontaine's fables.  R.S. Paris.  €6 each from labuandrie, through Ebay, Oct., '23.

The seller designates these two folders in good repair as coming from 1910, but I believe they are more likely from about 1950.  At first I thought these images were what we called "transfers," instant tattoos.  I changed my mind when the instructions urged "coating with varnish the next day to make them permanent"!  Though there are two sets, there are repeaters between the two sets.  There are repeat images even within the same collection.

 

 

 

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