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2003 Mother Goose on the Loose: Illustrated With Cartoons from The New Yorker. Edited by Bobbye S. Goldstein. NY: Harry N. Abrams.

I am not sure that "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg" (92) really relates to the fable of "The Goose and the…

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The print depicts a pen drawing of the tortoise and the hare. The hare rests by a tree while reading a newspaper with the headline “Hare Favored to Win Race”. He is alerted by the sound of tortoise whizzing by on a motorcycle. This drawing humorously…

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2008? Mousepad quoting Aesop: "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." $.99 from books4uandotherstuff, Albuquerque, NM, through eBay, Oct., '08.

I quote the eBay blurb: "This 9.25" x 7.75" rectangular mousepad is…

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1950? Mr. Fables Beef-burgs Air Popper Gun. Grand Rapids. $4.99 from Lee Whiteley Wills Point, TX, through eBay, March, '03.

By moving one's arm down rapidly, one catches the paper folded under the barrel of this gun. As this paper breaks out, it…

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2000? Multicolored metal pins of Krylov's fables with character labels. 1¼" high. Varying widths. Safety-pin, logo, and trademark sign on the back. $37.50 for eight pins from vintagejewelryAlvina through Etsy, April, '23. Seventeen earlier from…

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1958? Museo del Prado: Velazquez: "Esopo." Apparently with a "First Day of Emission" postmark from March 24, 1959 cancelling a 1.80 Ptas stamp picturing the upper section of this portrait in green. Printed in Spain. Ediciones Artisticas, Madrid. $5…

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1920? Musical Score for TMCM. Set against an illustration. Unknown source for $10, 2017.

This seems to be a copy of the page from "Chansons de France pour les Petits Francais" pasted onto a blank white background. I am a little surprised that…

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2010? Nancy Schön's Aesop's Fables: Morals to Live By. DVD. Retold by Anita Diamant. Video produced by NKP Media, Inc. Gift of Nancy Schön, Sept., '10.

This set of 24 sculptures is a real labor of love. Through them I have become a good…

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1890? Complete set of twelve magic lantern slides of numbered fables of La Fontaine. Original box. 7½” x 1⅝“. €35 from 123broc through Ebay, March, '23.

Here is yet another surprise in the experience of collecting fables. In 2019, I found, at…

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2004 Needlepoint of FC "Wrought by the Hand." Dorothy Unangst. 9½" x 7½". Unknown source and time of acquisition.

Very nice work! In this case, the crow is perched on top of a roof rather than in a tree. The composition is lovely. Trees on…
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