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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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1959 Extra copy of Reel 2 of View-Master Packet No. B 309: “Aesop’s Fables.” Portland, OR: Sawyer's Inc. $5 from Derek Metzer, Luxemburg, WI, through Ebay, May, ’14.

Stories on this reel include TMCM: four images. FC: one image. SW: two images.…

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1890? Three extra-long colored magic lantern slides showing La Fontaine's fables. Two fables per slide. 10½" x 2½". $32.04 from nanicohen through Ebay, June, 21.

Again, the color work in these slides is strong, even after all this time. …

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1976 Fable Friends Magic Pad. "Just scribble over the pages with a pencil. Like magic -- pictures will appear." ©1962 and 1976. Printed in Canada. Alex Wilson Publications, Ltd. Dryden, Ontario, Canada. $3.82 from A.J. Gaudette, Fall River, MA,…

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1972 "Fabled Isles" Mardi Gras doubloon. Comus. Gift of Jonathan Singer, Bronx, NY, through Ebay, Oct., '99.

On one side there is pictured and captioned "The Golden Cup of Comus," with a nice Latin phrase: "Sic volo, sic jubeo." Apparently the…

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1977 Fables and Fun, Vol. 2. Paperbound. Minneapolis: Marketing Ventures. $6.47 from spittinunagecards through eBay, Nov., '13.

Here is one of two volumes in one of three sets. This landscape volume 9" x 8¼" has the same cover picture…

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1986 Fables and Legends: Aesop's Fables, Volume One. 30 minutes. VHS 80462. Milliken Publishing Company. Universal City, CA: MCA Home Video. $3 from Theresa Thomas, Lakeland, FL, through Ebay, Feb., '00.

Six stories are offered here: "The Lion and…

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2010 Fables de Jean de La Fontaine Lues par Gérard Philipe et ses Compères. Illustrations by Bruno Vacaro. Hardbound. Vandrezanne: Le Chant du Monde. €19.90 from L'Écume des Pages, Paris, July, '12.

This is a fine book with an excellent compact…

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Racontées par Divers. Musique de Benoît Pimont. Made in Germany. Editions Thierry Magnier: France Bleu.

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1991 Fables de La Fontaine. CD. Fables as songs by Lecocq, Offenbach, Gounod, Caplet, de Manziarly, Van Parys, and Trenet. EMI Classics. $17.95 from Gennady Smolyakov, Albuquerque, NM, through Amazon Marketplace, August, '15.

This CD was a…
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