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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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1970? Eleven Greek canvas scroll hangings depicting Greek fables. E.E. Apomimesis. Thessalonike: P. Zacharopoulos. $200 from kabilis through Ebay, July, ’21.

Like the gift set given earlier by Martin and Ulrike Koelle, these cloth scrolls…

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Individual Russian chocolate candy wrappers in the collection represent several different brands.

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Krasniy Oktybro delivers "Krylov Fables" chocolates in three sizes: 20 grams, 18 grams, and 15 grams. We have one of the first sort, two of the second, and one of the third..

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Four labels come from smaller pieces – 18 grams --of chocolate. The color scheme is different on each, though the format remains the same. By contrast with the larger chocolate bars above, these wrappers seem to be shut, as though the top and…

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The large sizeis about 3⅜" x 6" and contains 100 grams of chocolate. This closed wrapper is so strong that I offer the verso as well.

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I have had trouble deciphering the company and place on these two large (7¾" x 6") wrappers, both for 100 grams of chocolate.

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These four large (8½" x 8") wrappers include a lovely fable picture, which I offer here in each case as a detail. Do not miss what I believe is a double fable representation in the last wrapper. I believe that the artist is representing two fables…

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2003 Mother Goose on the Loose: Illustrated With Cartoons from The New Yorker. Edited by Bobbye S. Goldstein. NY: Harry N. Abrams.

I am not sure that "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg" (92) really relates to the fable of "The Goose and the…

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2003 Mother Goose on the Loose: Illustrated With Cartoons from The New Yorker. Edited by Bobbye S. Goldstein. NY: Harry N. Abrams.

I am not sure that "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg" (92) really relates to the fable of "The Goose and the…
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