L'ABEILLE, Paris

L'ABEILLE, 54 rue de Bondy, Paris

Nearly all l'Abeille cards are views or related scenes. The marque has had different company names, addresses and logos, those relevant to the period covered here are shown in the Paris Bottin entries below. The company started around 1914.

In the card showing pigs, "FM" in the stamp area stands for "Franchise Militaire" which usually is an overprint on the stamp. Maybe SP77 was in a colony which had run out of stamps.

The card A.C.F 4 has "Abeille - Cartes - Paris on the address side, most likely as a publisher rather than a printer. I don't know whether A.C. F is one of their marques or just refers to a series.