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Fox and Stork Ash Tray

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Title

Fox and Stork Ash Tray

Description

1960? Salt glaze ash tray presenting FS. Buchecker Co. Excelsiorwerk, Lucern, Switzerland. $6 from Jack De Foe, Peoria, AZ, through Ebay, April, '99.

The stork eats and drinks while the fox can only look into his long, tall glass. The legend underneath the scene reads "Buchecker a pour chaque vin son verre. La cigogne n'en a pas pour le renard!" "Buchecker has for every wine its own glass. The stork did not have the right one for the fox!" I take it that Buchecker is a glass-supplier for wine bars. Their description on the back says that the produce glass, porcelain, and crystal for restaurants, hotels, and bars. What a lovely little bit of Aesop to show up on a bar counter!

Source

$6 from Jack De Foe, Peoria, AZ, through Ebay, April, '99.

Date

Collection

Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“Fox and Stork Ash Tray,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed December 17, 2024, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1355.

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