Browse Items (895 total)

Gien TT2.jpg
1920? 7 7/8" cream-colored plate with colored design and raised edges depicting the fall of TT. The plate reads "Fables de LaFontaine 12" and "La Tortue et les Deux Canards." The back reads "Porcelaine opaque de Gien." $25 through Myrtice Stratton…

gienBlueWallDecorationWLresized.jpg
1920? 8½" cream-colored plate with a blue-green colored design depicting WL. The plate reads "Fables de LaFontaine" and "Le Loup et l'Agneau." The smudged back stamp reads "Porcelaine opaque de Gien." $25 through an unknown source prior to…

MrFablesGiftCertificates900.jpg
1982? "Mr. Fables Family Restaurants" gift certificates. Grand Rapids, MI. $16 from anythingeverythingandmo through Ebay, Oct., '22.

There are five packets here. Two each contain three $W1 gift certificates. Three contain ten $1 gift…

magiclanternslideTMCMAug2020cropped650high.jpg
1900? Glass magic lantern colored slide of Gustave Doré's TMCM. 7" x 3 7/8". Labeled on the lower rim "Class 29. Series 11. Fables of La Fontaine. No. 2. The City Rat and the Country Rat. B. 1 F. 9." $19.99 from phillips_bradley on Ebay, Dec.,…

CahierGodschaux4at500.jpg
1900? 6 Dust jackets ("Couverture Cahier") "Fables de La Fontaine" by Auguste-Godchaux, Paris. Artist: L. Mimard. Colored presentations of individual fables and texts – both in ornamental frames -- on both covers. €6 each from…

tin plate FS3.jpg
1910? Six Tin Tea Set Plates. Each 5.5" in diameter. FC, FS, OF, and WL, with extras of OF and WL. $45 each for three from Ray Hanson, Garland TX through Ebay, Feb., '99. Three further plates from another source at another time.

The curved…

RedBubbleDontKilltheGooseat500high.jpg
GGE by Aussieg. 2.1" x 2.8". $8.44.

GGEsp3.jpg
1960? Goose and Golden Egg salt and pepper shaker set. Made in Japan. The goose is almost 1½" x 2¾" x almost 2¾" high with three holes at the base of her neck. The egg is almost 1 1/8" high and wide and 1½" long with three holes on the rounded side.…

gougetforestandwoodmanCropped650.jpg
I have found the work of Emile Joseph Alexandre Gouget on three occasions and in three forms. The first two, the simplest, cost €2 apiece at a flea market in Strasbourg in July, '19.

In my short time in Paris in the summer of 2014, I managed to…

AntDiskFeveJan2024at650high.jpg
2018 Feve disk "La Cigale et la F…." €1.40 from Un monde de collection through Ebay, Dec., '23.

This disk is clearly to be paired with a fellow representing the cicada. Ebay represents it as a "Devinette," which I take to be a puzzle. I…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2