Disaster Occurs When The Dog Family Invites The Cats To Dinner

More than a year ago, I first picked up a few examples of the Mainzer cards with illustrations of "dressed cats". 

Most of the illustrations were done by the European artist, Eugen Hurtung.

This is the way I introduced the cards:

"...the colorful anthropomorphic images of cats (later, dogs, mice, and other animals) were the product of Eugen Hurtung and were introduced in the early 1950's.

 The artist was European, and the early cards were printed in Germany and Belgium, then in many other countries, including Turkey.

An art publisher in New York state, the Alfred Mainzer Company, has published these cards for sixty years.  The "Dressed Cats" are sometimes called 'Mainzer cards'. "

The "Dressed Cats" of Eugen Hurtung

I later found another card, which I posted in this article:

Cats At School - Another of the "Dressed Cats" from Mainzer

Here is the latest Mainzer card that I found at a flea market in New York. 

In this picture, it appears as though the Dog family have invited three cats to dinner.

A terrible squabble ensues among the young dogs and the young cat.

How dreadful for the patient-looking Dog parents, and the alarmed mother Cat.

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The earlier article noted that the Mainzer cards were always printed abroad, first in Germany, then Belgium, later, Turkey.

This card was printed in Belgium.