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1930?  Cigar box "Aesop."  $20 from an unknown source on Ebay, Feb., '90.

Finding this cigar box was one of the biggest surprises I have had in collecting.  Equally surprising is that I have never heard another whisper of "Aesop" cigars.  Not a…

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1988 Circular framed crewel-stitchery by Lois Carlson titled "Aesop's Fables." The stitchery presents five pairs: LM, TH, GGE, "The Tree and the Reed," and "The Horse and the Two Thieves."

I think it especially clever of Mom to find fables that…

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Diary of the experiences of Jasper Hall, a union soldier captured at the battle of Chickamauga, and held in confederate prisons in Atlanta, Georgia, Richmond and Danville Virginia

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2018?  Set of six cardboard boxes picturing La Fontaine fables on their covers.  Etival Clairefontaine: Clairfontaine.  €39.90 from Librairie Dinali, Strasbourg, July, '19. 

Now here is something most unusual!  I imagine these boxes are meant as…

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2007 Classic Fables. Texts from Joseph Jacobs. Dalian University of Technology Press Co., Ltd. 19.80 Yuan from Hangzhou Wholesale City Trading Co., Oct., '10.

This disc accompanies a paperbound book with the same title. The CD runs through the 150…

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1960? Two puzzle blotters from Claverie, Paris, "La Grande Maison de la Ceinture et du Corset." 3¾" x 6¼". TH and MM, each with a "riddle" of finding a hidden character or two. The verso of each includes a fuller text advertisement for Claverie in…
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