![]() The collectible book series was a popular concept in the postwar Francophone world.Įarlier than this, the book club, a long-standing model on both sides of the Atlantic, was a way for families who had not inherited massive libraries to assemble and collect an impressive display of erudition in the home, whether it was the classics of the Western canon, new popular fiction (sometimes given a lease on inclusion in the canon thanks to massive success, like Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind), or an authoritative encyclopedia that could be used by the children in the family for school reports. Intended explicitly from the very beginning to democratize learning and bring the classics of French-language literature to the public at an inexpensive cost, one of Rencontre’s other collectible marketing schemes was L’Encyclopédie du monde actuel, a set of fact cards that could be assembled by the child collector to form a full set of encyclopedias. ![]() Original publisher Éditions Rencontre in Lausanne, Switzerland specialized in subscription encyclopedias and other educational toys in the 1950s and ’60s. Safari Cards were an English translation of a set of collectible zoological information facts first devised and published in Switzerland. Video/Image Source: The Museum of Classic Chicago Television/ Garage Sale Finds Object Type: Collectible animal information cards ![]() Maker and Year: Editions Rencontre, 1976 Margrace Corp., 1980
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