French Slate Trade Card – loosely translated (below): The Slate as Roofing. Slates are hardened clay that can be sheared (?) easily in thin sheets. The color of slate varies, but generally model goes from green to from green to blue gray. They are used primarily to coat the roofs and also in large, thick plates to make the billiards. They often replace the paper in schools for teaching writing and arithmetic.

French Granite Trade Card – loosely translated (below): The Stone and Its Use – Granite The granite stone as a building stone. Granite possesses high hardness and resisted for a long time has the influence of weather. It is an excellent building stone because of its great inalterability. It is used primarily in construction of bridges, lighthouses, etc. Granite is very well polished.

French Sandstone Trade Card – loosely translated (below): Sandstone with the ease with which we work, is a stone of employ frequent in the construction industry. It is used for paving roads and in the manufacture of grindstones. Utilize it also works with any kind of sculpture and ornamentation.

French Marble Trade Card – loosely translated (below): The marble, called in Greek brilliant stone, is likely to receive a high polish and is used especially in the Arts and Architecture year. It is found mainly in Greece and Italy, particularly in Carrara, Genoa, Florence, but in France also operates one of the marbles in several departments. The Algeria provides marble onyx.

French Basalt Trade Card – loosely translated (below): The basalt rock is a rock of a brown or black extraordinary hardness. It is too hard and too brittle to be pure cut can not use it in constructions like rubble. The basalt is generally used in paving and paving. (?)

French Marble Trade Card – loosely translated (below):

French Basque Stone Quarry Workers Trade Card – loosely translated (below): The Basques, established...people on both sides of the Western Pyrenes descended from Iberians, the primitive inhabitants of Spain. In the middle of the two nations, France and Spain, which they are politically part, they have maintained for a relatively long period, ancient laws and privileges of individuals. Their language, which has continued until today, is the key to most geo-graphical denominations of the Iberian peninsula. Our engraving represents quarry workers, dressed in traditional costumes and light, which features pieces that include colored shirt and the plaid beret. Women wear the beret as frequently, their lace bodice and sleeves are covered without a multicolored scarf.

French Alabaster Trade Card – loosely translated (below): Alabaster, fine white stone so highly esteemed for making small objects of sculpture, comes mainly from the quarries of Volterra in Tuscany. The work function is very painful and because of the dust for unhealthy. As shown in the left part of our vignette, the gross alabaster is cut using a bandsaw before being submitted to the chisel of the artist, making statues, vases, frames of clocks, etc.

French Trade Card about animal horns – loosely translated (below – not related to stone quarrying): The Horn. The horn is used for so many uses is provided by a large number of animals especially appurtenant to the breed of cattle. The ancient people of Germany were already using large buffalo horns for drinking mead and from their primitive belief these goblets circulated even at banquets of the gods in Valhalla. Generally, the horn is flattened by heavy presses before being subject to further work. Our central vignette represents some of the many things made of horn, such as buttons, horns, hunting knife handles, etc.