1910? One colored "Fox and Geese" card advertising The Beaham Mfg. Co. of Kansas City, Mo., makers of "Faultless Starch." A bit less than 2½" x a bit more than 4". $3 somewhere, 1999.
I doubt that this is really a fable card. It is a hidden-picture card, with a fox to be found by the clever observer. The back makes an offer "Mail us 10 for Comic Pictures, Mail us 25 for Beautiful Pictures." I take it this is one of the former, cheaper variety! Browns and reds. A small symbol at the lower right of the picture says "N 718."
1981 Basler Münster Kryptafries, 112. H. "Aus der Fabel vom Kranken Löwen." Gift of Martin Kölle, July, '19.
This frieze shows on the left the fox reporting in to the sick king lion, who has wondered about his absence during the king's sickness. The fox's enemy, the wolf, has been painting the fox's absence as disloyalty. The fox answers that he has been searching far and wide for a remedy and has finally learned it. The king needs to apply the warm skin of a freshly skinned wolf! And is the scene on the right the skinning of the wolf or a shorthand presentation of the fable in which the fox is raised up out of a well by inviting the wolf to come down in the other bucket? What a thoughtful gift!
