Abstract

A three-dimensional image like that of FC on this postcard is not, in my experience, computer-friendly. This image has a very well posed clay figurine waiting beneath the crow. In the background are a windmill, a red fence, and some trees. I do believe that this card is the first three-dimensional card in the collection.

Abstract

The color schemes are strong here. Each of the paintings seems to suppose knowledge of the fable; it would be hard to deduce the fable from the rather static picture. Each card (except for CJ) gives a title above its painted picture and a key line below it.

Abstract

This close-up photograph was done by the same company that did a greater distance shot for another postcard of uncertain date but postmarked in 1985. Here one sees more clearly the water separating wolf and lamb.

Abstract The photographs show Steiff-like stuffed animals and dolls engaged in the scene. All three Crucy cards contain messages from Gentilly (one is dated in 1975) written in the same hand and signed with the same name (Camard?). For me the effort to be cute costs these scenes heavily. Perhaps the most intriguing shows the two mice of TMCM dealing with wine and sausage.MSA (#13) Is that a hedgehog who is acting as the son of the miller?TMCM (#15) The sausage and wine make...