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1960? Bruguière Stereocartes. Les Fables de La Fontaine (1) and (2). #3861 and #3862.Paris: Bruguière Stéréofilms. Made in France. $5.88 from marcb8421 on Ebay, August, '20.

Here are two cards from the fourth format of three dimensional viewers,…

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1947? Bugs Bunny and the Tortoise. Mel Blanc. Canvas-bound. Warner Brothers. $20 from A Time Treasured Antiques, Duluth, Sept., '18.

I found this album during a chance visit to an antiques store as I walked back to the hotel from a lovely…

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2019 Business Card of Erlesenes Bookshop in Vienna.  Gift of Erlesenes, August, '19.

Visiting this bookshop was one of the most refreshing of my fable-seeking adventures.  I noticed online an unusual volume that they were offering: "A Bölcs…

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1970? Buvard offert par Semelflex, a maker of shoes. With a trace-the-dots painting of La Fontaine's shoemaker from "The Shoemaker and the Financier." Premiere Serie C: Bottillon d'Enfant. Mesmer Pub. Imp. Sézanne. 5¼" x 8¼". $5 from Mme Denise…

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C.D. Cobb & Bros.. Paperbound. Boston: C.D. Cobb & Bros. Advertising Magazine.

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1980? Camembert Extra Fin cheese label. Fromage du Fin Renard. "Ce Qui Se Fait de Mieux." Litho. Myncke, Brussels. $8 from Dany Wolfs, Roeselare, Belgium, August, '00.

This circular label is a specimen of lovely colored printing. The crow, perched…

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1935?  Two French cardboard chocolate boxes.  7” x 3⅜” picturing “Two Doves”; WL; MM; FC; and TMCM.  5” x 3⅞” featuring two mice opening a box of chocolate mice!  Heavy cardboard.  “Made in France.”  $10 from chad555, Pottstown, PA, on Ebay, Dec.,…

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1995 Four GA stamps celebrating the 300th anniversary of the death of Jean de La Fontaine. FDC from December 15, '95. On an FDC envelope celebrating "Contos Infantis" with an image of the grasshopper and ant, including a cameo of Jean de La…

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2021 Capsules de champagne “Fables de La Fontaine.” Série Générique. Six champagne muselets picturing fables and Jean de La Fontaine. €2 from jeremyd8891 on Ebay, July, ’21.

Here is our third set of muselets. This series seems tied not to a…
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