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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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Comic Fables with Morals Advertising Washburn Crosby's Gold Medal Flour. Pamphlet.

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"Nouvelle Machine à Coudre de la Compagnie Singer." "La Cigale et la fourmi." Artist: Firmin ??. Albi, rue Maries, 15. Verso is a calendar of 1912.

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Le Renard et la Cigogne. Jean de La Fontaine. August Vimar. Paperbound. Paris: Imp. M. Moreau.

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

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1935?  Two frictographic “Image Magique” hidden page slips advertising Sauba syrups to counteract worms and warts.  A child should rub a crayon on the “blank” verso and an image will appear – an image with a hidden item to find.  4⅞” x 3⅞”.  $20 for…

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1920? Two cards presenting two contrasting stories about Rising Sun Stove Cleaner, manufactured by Morse Brothers in Canton, Massachusetts.  $4 each from an unknown source, April, '22.

The continuity of style is striking between the two…

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1900?  Two frictographic advertising pamphlets for Wood-Milne, an apparent manufacturer of rubber shoe heels.  "Les Fables de La Fontaine."  $100 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18. 

This is surely one of the more curious…

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1930?  Seven Nestlé advertising cards.  Text and illustration on the front side of each card in duochrome black and blue.  The verso of each, in black and one other color, has questions, suggestions, and a mention of Nestlé.  $42 from Bertrand Cocq,…

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1955  Merrill Lynch advertisement for a personal financial specialist using Aesop’s FG.  11” x 2½”.  $9.99 from 237 studio on Ebay, Sept., ’06. 

The point drawn is not far from that of the fable this time.  People walk away from investing because…

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