Two Homemade Cards Using Cut-Outs, Both on Folded Sheets, One Depicting Children Playing, the other, A Frazzled Waitress and Playful Cats in a Kitchen

France, 1920. Very Good. Clever and charming homemade cards for no particular occasion. N.d., circa 1920s. The two cards, made of folded light blue mottled stationary, are 13 by 17.5 when closed, and the entire pasted decoration is on the closed front page. The one with the children playing uses five different cut-outs, all cut neatly, with the largest image of two girls pulling a long fabric being used as a jump rope, while a separate cut-out has a girl suspended in air above. To the side of one of the girls is a teddy bear. Another cut-out features a girl on a toy horse. The other card has only two cut outs, and the larger one is almost the entirety of an illustration. The card maker was not making her own picture so much. The only augmentation is a small cut-out in a corner of a cat eating from a bowl. The larger image has a caption: "le tablier solide", its point being that the waitress, with her huge stack of plates precariously swaying in her arms, appears to have no place to put them down, with the table nearby is already covered. A chef who looks like a boy is laughing at her predicament as he is drying a pan. The card maker added no writing to the card. The two cards were done by the same person, clearly, who had an affection for cats, and given the caption in French, we assume was a French child. The paper has faded and become a washed out yellow around the perimeter and in the case of the waitress card, over much of its top page. There are flattened creases on the card backs.