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1987 Lois Carlson's scenes in baked clay of exploding frog. 3½" high. Gift of Lois Carlson.

This is the final scene in a series of about five or six scenes to depict OF. What an ingenious way to show an explosion!

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1987 Dog holding master's lunch pail. 2¼" high. Pat Lane Diaz, Wausau, WI. West Allis Craft Fair. Gift of Lois Carlson.

Diaz here gives the dog a very winning personality. It is not hard to believe that this dog had the good sense to set his…

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1988 Racing plastic turtle. 2½" high. Funrise Company. $3 from Frances Thompson, Fremont, CA, through Ebay, July, '00.

Frances writes that Funrise put out a line of storybook characters from fairy tales and fables. This little fellow with #18…

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1990? Bone carving of the wolf and stork. 4" x 1 3/8" x 5¼" high. $10.50 from Brenda Lyttle, Orange, TX, through Ebay, June, '00.

The texture and color of each of the figures are different. The stork is a lighter in color and almost…

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1995? East German whittling of FC. 4" high. DEM 15 in Dresden, July, '01.

The same attentive fox is back from the earlier (1985?) wooden presentation of FG. Now he looks up at a crow with a slice of swiss cheese in his mouth. The crow is…

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1997 Figures of walking tortoise (#7) and sleeping hare (#13) with runners' numbers. The former is 2½" long, while the latter is 3" long. $5 each from Fredda Ecker of Rainbow Miniatures at NY flea market, April, '97.

On a Sunday in Chelsea, I…

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1998? Crystal Fruit Tree. 3½" in diameter at its base and 3½" high. Made in China. FineGift. $2.95 from Buyers & Sellers, Fairchild, WI, through Ebay, July, '00.

Two little foxes with golden ears, noses, and tails read up toward the purplish…

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2000 Statuette of FG. 2½" x 3" x 4¼" high. Made in China. Dundee, MI: Young's Inc. $5.50 from David Fulk, Mt. Airy, NC, Jan., '01.

How nice to see that people keep on making things reminiscent of fables! The box even tells the fable on two of…

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1995 "Aesop's Fables": "This is a Little Wooden Book." 054. Wooden book containing four fable character pairs. DS; TMCM; GA; and TH. Each piece signed "Anita." Unknown source and time of acquisition.

What delightful, exquisite work! The…

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2000? Three fable canvas tapestries. 7¾" x 17½". FC, LM, and WL. $26.73 from "Une madeleine de Proust," Villennes-sur-Seine, France, through Etsy, Oct., '22.

Three delightful presentations! I wonder if the maker had patterns to work from or…
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