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1997 Figures of walking tortoise (#7) and sleeping hare (#13) with runners' numbers. The former is 2½" long, while the latter is 3" long. $5 each from Fredda Ecker of Rainbow Miniatures at NY flea market, April, '97.

On a Sunday in Chelsea, I…

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1995? East German whittling of FC. 4" high. DEM 15 in Dresden, July, '01.

The same attentive fox is back from the earlier (1985?) wooden presentation of FG. Now he looks up at a crow with a slice of swiss cheese in his mouth. The crow is…

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1990? Bone carving of the wolf and stork. 4" x 1 3/8" x 5¼" high. $10.50 from Brenda Lyttle, Orange, TX, through Ebay, June, '00.

The texture and color of each of the figures are different. The stork is a lighter in color and almost…

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1988 Racing plastic turtle. 2½" high. Funrise Company. $3 from Frances Thompson, Fremont, CA, through Ebay, July, '00.

Frances writes that Funrise put out a line of storybook characters from fairy tales and fables. This little fellow with #18…

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1987 Dog holding master's lunch pail. 2¼" high. Pat Lane Diaz, Wausau, WI. West Allis Craft Fair. Gift of Lois Carlson.

Diaz here gives the dog a very winning personality. It is not hard to believe that this dog had the good sense to set his…

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1987 Lois Carlson's scenes in baked clay of exploding frog. 3½" high. Gift of Lois Carlson.

This is the final scene in a series of about five or six scenes to depict OF. What an ingenious way to show an explosion!

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1986 Fox holding grapes. 3¼" high. Pat Lane Diaz, Wausau, WI. West Allis Craft Fair. Gift of Lois Carlson.

Here is a little mastepiece! This is perhaps the only time that I have seen the fox holding the grapes. Did he perhaps go out and buy…

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1986 Lion and mouse. 3¼" high. Pat Lane Diaz, Wausau, WI. West Allis Craft Fair. Gift of Lois Carlson.

Here the artist shows a clever way of integrating a second character into a one-mass medium. The physical fit with each other suggests…

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1985 Bespectacled turtle reading book with "Slow and steady wins the race." 2" high. Pat Lane Diaz, Wausau, WI. West Allis Craft Fair. Gift of Lois Carlson.

My mother and I met this artist and asked her if she ever fashioned fable characters. …

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1980? East German wood carving of FG. 3" high. Two exemplars, gifts of Margaret Carlson Lytton and David Daly.

This is an exquisite composite of carved elements. The delicate leaves set off the grapes and especially the fox well. The fox looks…
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