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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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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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1955? Place de la Fontaine Quebec City Dinner Menu. 9½" x 14½". $7.71 from thejumpingfrog through Ebay, May, '08.

Despite my best hopes, I believe that this menu has nothing to do with fables but only with a lovely fountain I Quebec City. But…

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1960? Plastic statuette of Jean de La Fontaine. 2½" high. Mokarex deposé. $5 from Karolewski Yannick through Ebay, Dec., '02.

This unpainted statuette has a small piece chipped out of the front right corner of its base. Mokarex is a well known…

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1948 Playola Record Album "Famous Fables." Three records presenting LM; SW; TH, and BW. album No. 105. Along with a Playola Record Player for $45 on Ebay, April, '12.

The album's four interior pages present each a rhyming quatrain for one of…

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1995? Limoges-style porcelain hinged trinket box. A tortoise and a hare perch on top. 2½" x 1¾" x 2¼" high. Made in China. $9.99 from Sue Cartwright, La Jolla, CA, through Ebay, August, '00. Extra exemplar for $4.99 from Today's Collectibles LLC,…

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1980? Porcelain DABS figurine of a young girl reading Aesop's Fables to a dog and a bird. 4½" x 1¾" x 6¼" high. Napco C2075. $4.99 from Linda Seminatore, Hudson, NH, through Ebay, Oct., '01. Extra exemplar for $5.99 from fishc74 through Ebay,…

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1960? Porcelain sculpture of Krylov's "The Cook and the Cat." 8½” x 2⅛“. $41.53 from Soviet Antiques through Ebay, August, '20. One earlier copy from an unknown source?

The cook starts to prepare dinner but steps away from the kitchen for a…

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2021 Postal souvenir of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Jean de La Fontaine, together with a smaller gummed scene including two stamps featured on the postal souvenir page. Those stamps are perforated sections to be removed from the…
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