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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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1990 Long-sleeved black "Aesop Lives" t-shirt, with a gray fox. Gift of the Ehrle family, Christmas, '90.

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2020 FG tie created by Custom Cravatieur, gift of Anna Sniezek. Nov., '20.

This wonderfully thoughtful gift comes from a student whom I had taught twice. I also served as "talent" in a major psychology project. A little research found the…

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1995? Brooks Brothers tie with a fox holding grapes in his mouth. 65% silk, 35% polyester. Woven in England. $9.95 from rseal63441 through Ebay, May, '01.

Many tiny gold foxes carry red grapes in their mouths against a taupe background on this…

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2000? French silk scarf about 33½” square depicting Aesop’s fables with English language quotations around each of nine images. $60 from GravityGoods, Aumsville, OR, through Ebay, August, ’21.

It is surprising to find a French scarf representing…

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1990? TH silk scarf. Made in Italy. 11½" x 56". Where and when?

The tortoise and hare can be very hard to make out. I offer an enlarged detail below. Is a scarf this long and narrow usual?

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1980? TH silk scarf. "Echo." 31" square. Where and when?

This large scarf presents a challenge not only to its photographer but to any other viewer, since its three quarters of its lines appear upside-down and 90 degrees from horizontal. I…

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1950? Pendant 1½" in diameter illustrating WL by Jean de La Fontaine. Artist: Jean Vernon. $20 from an unknown source, July, '16.

This heavy pendant is identical with and perhaps created from WL in the set of 1½" medallions by Vernon. There…

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1983 Embroidered TH patch commemorating the L.A.W. Metric Century Bicycle event in 1983. 3" square. $7.51 from John and Deb Brodahl, Greensburg, PA, through Ebay, Jan., '02.

Here is another first for this collection. I do not know what the…

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1931 Aesop's Fables Hankie Book. Illustrations by Pearl Gilligan (et al?). Paperbound. Los Angeles: N.R. Woodard Co. $38.93 from Giancarlo's Closet, Exton, PA, through eBay, August, '11.

It took twelve years, but this purchase solves a mystery. I…
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