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A twice-folded-over heavy paper brochure advertising "An Aesop Odyssey" by Cleveland Opera On Tour.

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"An Ivory Soap Fable (With apologies to Aesop and Geo. Ade)." Ivory Soap advertisement from The Literary Digest sometime apparently in 1908. Art by Clyde James Newman. 8½" x 11".

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A newspaper feature from Boys and Girls Section of The Saturday Free Press. Winnipeg, Canada.

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1981 One "USOPS Fables" First Day of Issue envelope featuring The "B" Stamp. Postmarked San Francisco, CA, March 15, 1981. Doris Gold Cachets. $1.43 from AAO, LLC, Indianapolis, IN, through eBay, Sept., '22.

This envelope fills a gap in this…

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2006? "Beasts and Citizens" Forty Fables of La Fontaine." CD. Translated and red by Craig Hill. Recording by Point One Audio, Lincoln, MA. Concord, MA: Palm Press. Unknown source.

It is pleasant to hear the translator read his own work, work…

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1950? "Buvard a Conserver" ("a blotter to keep") from Joannic Fabrics, featuring a crow holding a piece of cloth over an expectant fox. 5¼" x 8¼". $5 from Dany Wolfs, Roeselare, Belgium, Nov., '01.

This very large cream-colored blotter with a…

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1981 One "USOPS Fables" First Day of Issue envelope featuring The "C" Stamp. Postmarked Memphis, TN, Oct. 11, 1981. Doris Gold Cachets. $5 from RKA Covers, Lafayette, IN, through eBay, August, '04.

"Doris Gold Cachets" here will become simply…

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1985 One "D Stamp" First Day of Issue envelope. Postmarked Los Angeles, Feb. 1, '1985. Signed by James B. Paslay. $12 from gumball99 through Ebay, Oct., '22.

I have come to believe that this envelope does not belong in this collection. I had…

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1988 One "USOPS Fables" First Day of Issue envelope featuring The "E" Stamp. Postmarked Washington D.C. Jan. 22, 1988. Handpainted (?) and signed by Doris Gold. $6.02 from Oceanic Stamps, Coins & Artifacts Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, through Ebay,…

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2018 Long-sleeved t-shirt featuring "Everyone wants to steal your cheese" with images of a fox and crow. $27.99 from Amazon, Oct., '18.

The crow in this fable does not really ride the back of the fox, but it is nonetheless wonderful to see the…
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