Phosphatine Florian Colored
- 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
- Non-Stock Trade Card Series
- Alden Fruit Vinegar
- Blédine
- Au Bon Marche
- ERA Cut-Out Cards
- Erdal Kwak Reineke Fuchs
- Fairbank Canning
- Flan Imperial Trade Cards
- Johnson Sewing Machines
- Le Sirop de Gaïarsol
- Librairie Gedalge Blue and Orange Trade Cards
- Collection Ibled Black and White
- Collection Ibled Colored
- Incroyable de Paris Hidden Picture Cards
- Kerr Spool Cotton
- Liebig Meat Extract
- Magasins Reunis
- Les Fables de Nestlé
- Nestlé Cards to Color
- Nestlé Contest Trade Cards
- Odinot
- Phosphatine Falières
- Palmin Coconut Lard
- Palmin Coconut Lard Sechs Fabeln
- Poudre Cap
- Shreddies
- Solution Pautauberge
- Cacao Van Houten
- Vernicire
- Trade Card Individuals
- Non-Stock Trade Card Series
- Stock
- Non-Stock
- Trading Cards
- Other Cards
1910? Fourteen 7½" x 5¼" cards engraved by Devambez in Paris, picturing and presenting Florian's fables. The pictures are numbered "12" through "24" with the exception of "19." I presume that the set includes twenty-four cards. Each illustration is signed by Maurice Leloir. 600 Francs for the set from Annick Tilly at the Clignancourt flea market, July, '01. "Les deux Chats" a gift of Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, August, '15.&nb
These cards are similar to the La Fontaine set from the same firm, but they are slightly larger, include only a title on the card's front, and treat the illustration borders differently. Each side of each card has "Édité par la Phosphatine Falières" at the top and "Phosphatine Falières, Aliment des Enfants" at the bottom. Borders around the colored illustrations combine picture frames, flowers, and birds. "La Fable et la Verité," "L'Habit d'Arlequin," and "Le Charlatan" have the strongest colored illustrations, perhaps because they are the clearest. Each verso contains its fable text bordered on three sides by a different-colored floral display and below by an attractive black-and-white picture, which I find regularly stronger than the colored illustration. A good sample of the strong verso illustrations is "Les deux Jardiniers." The cards are in very good condition.
Click on any card to see it full-size (there are two sets of images on this page, the second set it at the bottom of the page).
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L'Avare et son Fils | Le Perroquet | Les deux Jardiniers |
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Le Paysan et la Rivière | Le Troupeau de Colas | L'Ane et la Flute |
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L'Habit d'Arlequin | Le Charlatan | Les deux Chats |
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Le vieux Arbre et le Jardinier | Les Singes et le Léopard | La Fable et la Verité |
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Le Pacha et le Dervis | Le Vacher et le Garde-Chasse | Les deux Jardiniers Verso |
1910? Ten more 7½" x 5¼" cards engraved by Devambez in Paris, picturing and presenting Florian's fables. The pictures are numbered "1" through "10." Each illustration is signed by Maurice Leloir. $35 for the set from Jalilstamps through eBay, April, '07. Several more cards, including the missing #11, from Caveron Devey, Paris, August, '14. Extra copy of "La Mère, l'Enfant et les Sarigues" for $7 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., '21.
How fortunate to find twelve more -- and perhaps to complete the set! My comments on the first set apply to these cards. "Le Grillon," "La Jeune Poule et le Vieux Renard," and "Le Danseur de Corde et le Balancier" have perhaps the strongest colored illustrations. The last of these wonderfully pictures the falling balancier in mid-air! The floral displays on the versos are here all in red, while they were all in something like a silvery green on the other cards. A good sample of the strong verso illustrations is "Le Danseur de Corde et le Balancier": the fallen artist scratches his perhaps wounded head. The cards are again in very good condition.
Click on any card to see it full-size (there are two sets of images on this page, the first set it at the top of the page).
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Le Grillon | La Coquette et l'Abeille | L'Enfant et le Miroir |
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La Jeune Poule et le Vieux Renard | L'Aveugle et le Paralytique | Le Danseur de Corde et le Balancier |
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La Pie et la Colombe | Les Deux Voyageurs | Le Château de Cartes |
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La Mère, l'Enfant et les Sarigues | Le Danseur de Corde et le Balancier, verso |
1910? Phosphatine Falières Trade Cards. Maurice Leloir. Handmade. Hardbound. Edite par la Phosphatine Falières. $112 from Broli, Miami, FL, through abe, Dec., '13.
This is a handmade book containing 22 of 24 trade cards issued by Phosphatine Falières presenting Florian's fables. Cards 1 and 10 are missing. As it happens, I have twenty-two of the cards of this series; all twenty-two are pictured in the Phosphatine Falières section of non-stock fable cards. Those twenty-two fortunately include the missing #1 and #10. There is one mistake in the order of the cards; the sequence at the middle of this book follows the order 8, 9, 12, 11, 13, 14. A hand put a date of mcmxxxix and some notes on the bottom of each page. The front and back green leather covers present a curious inlaid geometric design. The book is boxed. I have put copies of the two missing cards into the front of the book. The book of course supplies the two missing cards, #11 -- "L'Avare et son Fils" -- and #19 -- "Les deux Chats." I will include the Broli description: "Preciosa colección de tarjetones editados por Phosphatine Falieres c/1910. Son 22 fábulas de Florian (de un total de 24) bellamente ilustradas a color por Maurice Leloir al frente, y al dorso el texto de las mismas en francés. Cada una tiene al pie una pequeña dedicatoria manuscrita en español y fechadas todas 1939. Encuadernadas en cuero verde con diseños geométricos combinados y labrados (c/1940). Con caja. Muy curioso. Castellano Hardcover Leather Bound (Cuero Pleno) Very good condition (Muy buen estado)." "Muy curioso" is right!
1910? Quelques Fables de Florian. Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. Hardbound. Phosphatine Falières. €19 from cousme through Ebay, Oct., '23.
This book is a curiosity. It is made up principally of the 24 cards published and distributed by Phosphatine Falières and printed by Devambez in Paris.. It adds to the cards a leather set of covers, a title-page, a frontispiece of Florian, and -- at the back of the book -- a T of C. It has further a page before the frontispiece to be filled in with the name of the recipient: "Offert a M…par la Maison Chassaing." "Maison Chassaing" sent me on a merry chase on the web. I come away thinking that there are associations here with fine dining and particularly wedding feasts, but that is only an impression. The surprising thing for me is that this "book" is not a homemade album of the complete set but a "professional gift" made up by Falières and given away by a more local entrepreneur. The good news for our collection is that the book brings together into a full set individual items otherwise found in distinct groupings. Compare the home-made album, for which I paid about five times as much!
