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2018 Long-sleeved t-shirt featuring "Everyone wants to steal your cheese" with images of a fox and crow. $27.99 from Amazon, Oct., '18.

The crow in this fable does not really ride the back of the fox, but it is nonetheless wonderful to see the…

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1991 One "USOPS Fables" First Day of Issue envelope featuring The "F" Stamp. Postmarked Washington D.C. Jan. 22, 1991. Handpainted and signed by Doris Gold as #92 of 200. $12.52 from Dave Fletcher, Dallas, TX, through Ebay, Sept., '99.

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1980? Large (11¾" diameter) single plate with a banner on its face "Fables de La Fontaine." Brown, blue, and green. €15 from "MK" at St. Ouen, June, '19.

This encounter at the St. Ouen flea market was unusual. I asked about fable books and…

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1998 "Fables." Reading Words Flip-Overs. Four flip-over pages using TH, GGE, GA, and FG. Bryan House Publishers, Inc. Printed in the USA. $1.75 from Kim Douglas, Baytown, TX, through Ebay, August, '00.

I had not known of the existence of this…

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1994 "USOPS Fables" First Day of Issue envelope featuring The "G" Stamp. "7th in a series of postal raises." Postmarked Washington, DC, Dec. 13, 1994. Signed and numbered #34 of 145 by Doris Gold. Copyright 1995 by Doris Gold.

This envelope…

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1950? "Jean de La Fontaine" champagne label. "Cuvee Champagne Jean de La fontaine, 1621-1695." $5 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.

A seal in the center of this label depicts an open book and a feather used for writing.…

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1899 "L'Aveugle et le Paralytique." Dessin de Doës. Front cover. Le Rire No. 225, February 25, 1899. 9" x 12". €10 at Clignancourt, July, '19. Extra copy for €15 from a bouquinist, Paris, July, '23.

Behind an attractive woman, the invitation…

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1922 "L'Europe et le Maitre d'École." Uncle Sam as the Pedant lectures the drowning child that is Europe, quoting La Fontaine. Front cover. Le Cri de Paris No. 1305, April 2, 1922. 8¼" x 11¾". €10 at Clignancourt, July, '19.

I take it that…

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1913 "L'Illustration" magazine for February 8, 1913, includes a full-page insert (page 117) as it reports on elements of, I believe, the "Balkan Wars." The full-page insert offers a photograph of a mule and two riders in Turkestan who illustrate…

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1952? "La Cigale et la Fourmi: Version Moderne" compliments of Crédit Coopératif de France, Paris. Signed "Pomandre 52." R.C. Seine 352.357 B. 50 Francs from Annick Tilly, Clignancourt, August, '99.

In this modern version, the young cicada, unlike…
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