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1930? Six handbills offering fable texts and illustrations with advertising on the verso. Three advertise Vermifuge Lune: WC (#13), “Oyster and Litigants” (#22) and MM (#24. $5 each from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, May, '05. One,…

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1935? Four graph-ruled 16-page notebooks offered by "Etablissements Verminck," a major producer of products from peanuts, some edible and some not, like soap, as the advertisements suggest. Orange and black, including on each cover an image and…

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1962?/90? Vincent Van Moose. Volume 3 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank: Buena Vista Home Video. $9.95 at Washington Video, Georgetown, Dec., '91.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here is the story of the dog and his shadow (5:20), a…

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1920? Vintage pottery cigarette box and ashtray. 5¾" x 6" x 4" in height. $6.37 from Margy Farmer, Greenfield, IN, through Ebay, Sept., '00.

Vintage pottery cigarette box and ashtray, with bunches of grapes on either side of the ashtray, one fox…

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1940 Vintage French dust-jacket. Red. FC image by M. Lemainque. Pharmacie Moderne H.-V. Plassard, Paray-le-Monial. €5 from an unknown source, Nov., '21.

This is about as simple as it gets in the genre of protège-cahiers. The inside flaps…

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1980 Vintage Three-Piece TH Decal Set. Two copies. Carol Stream, IL: The Meyercord Co. A Johnson Matthey Company. $1.99 each from Sue Daniels, Camarillo, CA, through Ebay, Nov., '01.

An 8" x 12" sheet offers a reclining bunny eating a carrot, a…

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1930? One pinback 15/16" in diameter, labelled "Aesop's Fables - Waffles - 22." $2 from Connie Amos, Flushing, OH, through Ebay, March, '00.

Against a white background we find "Aesop's Fables" at the top," Waffles" at the bottom, and "22" on…

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1950? Aesop's Fable Wallpaper. Pink and white. Four rolls 22" wide. $60 from Charles Luther, Mohawk, NY, through Ebay, April, '00.

I never would have suspected that there is Aesopic wallpaper! The paper here features a repetition of two scenes…

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2006 Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies . The Historical Musical Animated Classics. 2 dvd set. Introduced by Leonard Maltin. Unknown source.

As the promotion says, "This second volume of the revolutionary series boasts some of…

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2001 Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies. The Historical Musical Animated Classics. 2 dvd set. Introduced by Leonard Maltin. Unknown source.

To my surprise, the first disc in this two-disc set contains the three fables I am aware of…
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