1999 A baseball cap in Creighton Bluejay blue, with the title across the brow: "The Fable Guy." A gift of Jim and Karen Ehrle and their family, June, '99.
Now there is a gift I never expected! They are urging me to wear it to France later this summer....
1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $14.99 from Gloria Badger, Franks for the Memories, West Hills, CA, through Ebay, Feb., '00.
See my other button showing this fable for the story. This is a darker button with a stag running left in the foreground and an eagle moving right above. Flora fill in the open spaces around the circumference, with another rim added around the scene. Stamped and tinted brass, with a steel back and wire shank.
1890? 1 brass button of the eagle and the stag, 1" in diameter for $13 from Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, through Ebay, April, '99.
Though this theme of the eagle and stag is listed as a standard button motif, I have no idea what the fable is that is depicted! This button is a bright, very shiny brass piece folded over a different back with yet a third independent piece forming the shank. Help?! BBB shows a similar motif in an apparently smaller button (Plate 154 #27), and for #5 on Plate 153 describes the following story from Pilpay. A stag led his family on the search for food and water. As the land became unfamiliar, he told the females and young deer to wait in hiding. An eagle called to the stag to ask where his family was hidden, saying he wanted to lead them to food and water. The stag recognized the eagle's intentions of capturing a young deer for himself and declined to reveal their whereabouts. In a footnote, BBB gives Madge Valgamore as their authority and note that they could not find this story in any edition of Pilpay. Regretfully, Mrs. Valgamore had not given a reference. So still I say: Help?!
