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1995 5 notecards, made to match their appropriate envelopes by placing an enlarged image of the fable stamp at the left edge of the landscape paper. Almost 4" x 8¼". The stamps in question are the Fables of La Fontaine stamps issued on June 24, 1995.…

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1930? 9 colored La Fontaine prints signed "Starling." 100 Francs each at a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99.

Each 9.5" x 6.2" print has an image on the left, including the title of La Fontaine's fable. On the right is the text. Each is…

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2000 Statuette of FG. 2½" x 3" x 4¼" high. Made in China. Dundee, MI: Young's Inc. $5.50 from David Fulk, Mt. Airy, NC, Jan., '01.

How nice to see that people keep on making things reminiscent of fables! The box even tells the fable on two of…

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1930 Complete set of twelve silver plated kniferests (portes couteaux) by Stephane Prudhomme illustrating favorite fables. Apparently in the original box. $154.71 from brocs_en_stock on Ebay, Jan., '18.

Each knife rest is a panel 3¼" wide and 1"…

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1910? Sterling bowl labelled "Sterling E S C." 6½" in diameter. With six fable titles and images around its inner rim. $200 from maxbernat through Ebay, March, '22.

The six segments are particularly well done. Even the transition sections,…

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2015? Storytellers' Favorite Fables: Folktales from around the World! Organic Kids Company. DVD. 62 minutes. Eight tales. $3.60 from Leonardo Hernandez, Hialeah Gardens, FL, through Ebay, July, '18.

Storytellers do lively presentations here…

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2007? Package of "Erstein Sucre enveloppé." Les Fables de La Fontaine. 192 packets of two sugar cubes, each packet wrapped in a paper illustrating a fable. I kilogram package, 5¾" x 4" x 3". Unknown source.

I remember marveling over this…

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2015 Sun Catcher Featuring TH. Chinese. Orcara. Unknown source.

It takes very little sunshine to get this tortoise to move his oversized head! According to web resources, Orcara is a Chinese toy manufacturer that produces a diverse range of…

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2020 T-shirt featuring "Quid rides? De te fabula narratur" from Horace. Short sleeves. $22.99 from Goathead Tees, Brown City, MI, through Etsy.

This has been a favorite line of mine from Horace's Satire I 1, verse 69. He has just been retelling…

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2019 T-shirt with Harrison Weir's illustration of TH and "Aesop's Fables The Tortoise and the Hare." Gift. Christmas, 2018.

What a treat to see an old classic illustration like this still alive land well! The bunny sleeps as the turtle trudges
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