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1960? Cards of Iminacre buttons using La Fontaine fable designs. About 2" x 3⅛". Four to six buttons per card. $2.32 per card from Lisagora, Machecoul, France, March, '19. €5 each for GA and an extra of LM from Jerome David, Beauvais, France,…

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1890? One two-piece brass button, 1 3/8" in diameter, picturing "The Crane and the Crayfish." $25 from Onie Wiedeman, Minot, ND, May, '99.

BBB Plate 154 # 2. For the editors there the identification of the fable is not certain. I am not sure that…

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1890? One brass button, 7/8" in diameter, picturing "The Crane and the Fish." $8.33 from Robin Larner, July, '99.

I can find this button in neither BBB nor Nelson and Sweat "Fables on Buttons" in The National Button Bulletin (Oct., '86). The…

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1890? Two two-piece brass buttons, 9/16" in diameter, picturing " The Dog Who Carried His Master's Dinner." $12 from Joni Goldbarg through Ebay, April, '99, and a gift of Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, May, '99.

This is perhaps the simplest of the…

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1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $13 from Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, through Ebay, April, '99.

Though this theme of the eagle and stag is listed as a standard button motif, I have no idea what the fable is that…

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1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $14.99 from Gloria Badger, Franks for the Memories, West Hills, CA, through Ebay, Feb., '00.

See my other button showing this fable for the story. This is a darker button with a…

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1890? 1 circular FC button, red tinted brass, 1 1/16" in diameter. $25 from Onie Wiedeman, Minot, ND, May, '99.

Though the image seems very famliar, I cannot place the button in BBB. The scene is basically the same as that on my two Monleón…

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1890? 1 circular FC button, brass surrounded by metal studs, 1¼" in diameter. $31 from Resa Truslow, Boise, Idaho, through Ebay, July, '99.

The pattern is the same as that on the Wiedeman button of similar proportions, but the button comes from a…

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1890? 2 circular FC buttons, stamped brass, one silvered, both decorated with a border of facetted steels. $40 from Lenore Monleón, Chelsea Antiques, NY, April, '97.

One image is silver in color, the other bronze. Ms. Monleón had lots of animal…

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1890? One brass FC button, 7/8" in diameter. $8.33 from Robin Larner, July, '99.

Identical in design with the two 5/8" FC buttons. BBB Plate 154 #6. Let me quote from there: "Stamped brass, cut out and backed by a painted metal liner, with a…
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