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2023 T-shirt with image and lines from "The Scorpion and the Frog." $17.44 from strtwr at redbubble.com, Nov., '23.

This shirt image represents a surprising choice. Most people do not know this fable of a frog who offers a ride to a scorpion. …

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2004 Tales of Magic. EastwestDVD video. Five classic tales identified by country. $10 from Susan Carlough, Easton, PA, through Ebay, June, '10.

Primitive colored cartoons from Russia, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, besides GA from Greece.…

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1970 Ten French lottery tickets. "Les Gueules Cassées" ("broken mouths," i.e., wounded WWI veterans). Each with a different tax stamp illustrating a fable of La Fontaine. $5 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.

What…

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1975 Ten Greek schoolroom scrolls for hanging up in a classroom, each illustrating a fable in four scenes with a title. Wooden endpieces with an almost canvas-like paper for the pictures themselves. Gift of Martin and Ulrike Kölle, August, 2012. …

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1998? Terrapin and hare brooches. Terrapin is 2" x 1½". Hare is 3" x 1¾". Fiberboard? Made by Klassic Kreatures, Falls Church, VA. Gift of Margaret and Michael Lytton, Dec., '00.

Delightful creatures with lively eyes. Yes, that is a Maryland "M"…

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2001 TH Address Labels. Two sheets with fourteen address labels each. White Wolf Designs. $2 from Nikki Brindle, Warsaw, IN, through Ebay, August, '01.

Each label is 1 1/3" x 4". A yellow and green tortoise apparently comes back past the finish…

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2020 TH charms by Nancy Schön representing her two statues in Boston's Copley Square. $50 from Nancy herself, Sept., '20. They arrived with a lovely photographic note from Nancy.

The charms can be shoe tie or sweater charms. Charming!

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1980? TH silk scarf. "Echo." 31" square. Where and when?

This large scarf presents a challenge not only to its photographer but to any other viewer, since its three quarters of its lines appear upside-down and 90 degrees from horizontal. I…

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1990? TH silk scarf. Made in Italy. 11½" x 56". Where and when?

The tortoise and hare can be very hard to make out. I offer an enlarged detail below. Is a scarf this long and narrow usual?

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2019 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: The Complete Series. 5 seasons, 163 episodes, 18 discs, approximately 59 hours. Includes, in their place in each production, all 50 episodes of "Aesop and Son." Ward Productions. Licensed…
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