Browse Items (1387 total)

tshirtEveryoneWantstoSteal650.jpg
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…

tshirtHarrisonWeirTHcropped650high.jpg
2019 T-shirt with Harrison Weir's illustration of TH and "Aesop's Fables The Tortoise and the Hare." Gift. Christmas, 2018.

What a treat to see an old classic illustration like this still alive land well! The bunny sleeps as the turtle trudges

TshirtQuidRidesResized.jpg
2020 T-shirt featuring "Quid rides? De te fabula narratur" from Horace. Short sleeves. $22.99 from Goathead Tees, Brown City, MI, through Etsy.

This has been a favorite line of mine from Horace's Satire I 1, verse 69. He has just been retelling…

MrFablesTShirt800high.jpg
2023 "Mr. Fables" T-shirt. $15 from GRRetroStore on Etsy, March, '23.

The seller quotes "People like Mr. Fables- People like yoooou!" Mr. Fables was a chain of cafeteria-style family restaurants located throughout Western Michigan. If you grew…

scorpionandfrogtshirt.jpg
2023 T-shirt with image and lines from "The Scorpion and the Frog." $17.44 from strtwr at redbubble.com, Nov., '23.

This shirt image represents a surprising choice. Most people do not know this fable of a frog who offers a ride to a scorpion. …

IminacreOFcropped400.jpg
1960? Cards of Iminacre buttons using La Fontaine fable designs. About 2" x 3⅛". Four to six buttons per card. $2.32 per card from Lisagora, Machecoul, France, March, '19. €5 each for GA and an extra of LM from Jerome David, Beauvais, France,…

CraneFish3.jpg
1890? One two-piece brass button, 1 3/8" in diameter, picturing "The Crane and the Crayfish." $25 from Onie Wiedeman, Minot, ND, May, '99.

BBB Plate 154 # 2. For the editors there the identification of the fable is not certain. I am not sure that…

CraneFrog3.jpg
1890? One brass button, 7/8" in diameter, picturing "The Crane and the Fish." $8.33 from Robin Larner, July, '99.

I can find this button in neither BBB nor Nelson and Sweat "Fables on Buttons" in The National Button Bulletin (Oct., '86). The…

Masterslunch3.jpg
1890? Two two-piece brass buttons, 9/16" in diameter, picturing " The Dog Who Carried His Master's Dinner." $12 from Joni Goldbarg through Ebay, April, '99, and a gift of Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, May, '99.

This is perhaps the simplest of the…

EagleDeer2.jpg
1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $13 from Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, through Ebay, April, '99.

Though this theme of the eagle and stag is listed as a standard button motif, I have no idea what the fable is that…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2