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1880? Cast iron & brass oil lamp base. Each of four faces with a fable illustration. 15" diameter. £200 from lampman78 through Ebay, May, '23.

I found this heavy piece of artistry so unusual that I splurged and went after it. We are not much…

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2000? Pillow featuring a fox and four sets of grapes. 16" square. Unknown source and date of acquisition.

For me, the great feature of this lovely pillow is the fabric that makes up the body of the fox. Its red material has a floral pattern. …

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2020? Pillow cover with pillow material illustrating FC. Sharon Turner. 16" x 16". $17.75 from redbubble.com, Nov., '23.

This is ebullient art at its best! Only the crow is slightly understated, while everything else in the scene is richly…

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1950? Embroidered Pillow Top of FC. 19" x 15". $30 from geodecsis through Ebay, May, '20.

As the seller notes, there is a yellow background layer that is only pinned at the moment to this delicate representation of FC. If it really was used as…

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1935? Tortoise and hare rug. 25½" x 58". $19.99 from PAW Enterprises, Monroe, MI, through Ebay, June, '00.

The rug pictures the hare showing off as a hitter while a female hare looks on. The tortoise is presumably pitching to the hare. The…

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1900? Scissors with one serrated edge showing foxes straining upward for grapes on each handle. 5¾" long and 2" wide. $15.50 from Richard Smith, Jr., Oak Ridge, NJ, through Ebay, Sept., '00.

Am I correct in presuming that this is a grape…

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1885? Large Children's Scrap Book Album with FC cover.

So far, I have found one large (11¼" x 14") scrap book album with a golden, grape, and black cover depicting FC. It came with some nice old scraps inside. $25 from Tim Smith, Clinton, MA,…

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2007? Package of "Erstein Sucre enveloppé." Les Fables de La Fontaine. 192 packets of two sugar cubes, each packet wrapped in a paper illustrating a fable. I kilogram package, 5¾" x 4" x 3". Unknown source.

I remember marveling over this…

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2015 Sun Catcher Featuring TH. Chinese. Orcara. Unknown source.

It takes very little sunshine to get this tortoise to move his oversized head! According to web resources, Orcara is a Chinese toy manufacturer that produces a diverse range of…

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1970? Seven French sterling "Fables of La Fontaine" thimbles, likely produced by Lenain in the 1970's. Six for $360 from Industrial-Blonde, Houston, TX, through Ebay, May, '19. Bertrand (monkey) and Raton (cat) thimble for $52.51 from Alpha Gold…
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