Carlson Fable Collection

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  Son walks while father rides
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  Son rides while father walks
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  Some well known Fables selected and illustrated by Antonio Frasconi

  First edition
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  Some Further Letters to an Elector and Some Political Fables

  J.H. Balfour Browne
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  Solution Pautauberge

  1900? Fables de LaFontaine. 30 cards (and many picture-duplicates) marked either "Collection de la Solution Pautauberge" (P) or "Collection de la Kolarsine et de la Solution Pautauberge" (K). With colored illustrations after Gustave Doré. Unnumbered. Printed in France. Twelve cards (all P) for $65 from Barense (or B & B?) at Foster City Card Show, Feb., '97. Ten cards (all K) for a total of 140 Francs from Librairie Bailly at Les Puces, Marché Dauphine, July, '98. $15 for FM (also K) from The Cartophilians, March, '96. Thirteen cards (12 K and "Le Gland et la Citrouille" P) for 390 Francs from Delage at Clignancourt, August, '99. One card (P) for $15 from Virginia Makis, Springfield, MA, Feb., '00. One card (P) for $2 at Jamie's Flea Market, South Amherst, OH, March, '00. Five cards (all K) for 135 Francs from P. Bresch, Clignancourt, August, '01. One card (P) for $9.99 from Constantin Sova, Bacau, Romania, through Ebay, Dec., '00. One missing card (P) of FC for $9.99 from Erwin Stubbe, Gent, Belgium, through eBay, August, '05. One missing card (K) of "Le Rat et l'Huitre" and three extras for €5 each from ABC de la C.P.A., Lyon, at Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05. Two P cards of "Le Gland et la Citrouille" and "Le Laboureur et ses enfants" for $6.50 from Sova Constantin, Bacau, Romania, through eBay, Feb., '03. Eleven extra cards for $5 each, Sept., '03. Many cards from St. Ouen, August, '15. Ten Pautauberge cards in very good condition for $15 Canadian, from yvr1 through Ebay, April, '22. Beautifully colored cards with the full text of the fable on the back. The bright colors, including yellows, pinks, and oranges, bring a new kind of life to Doré's somber illustrations. Beneath the text of cards in the "P" format is a standard pitch for Solution Pautauberge, which cures old and new rheumatism and all forms of bronchitis. It also prevents tuberculosis. On the back of the cards in the "K" format mention of anything but the fable is gone. Imagine my surprise at finding one of these cards that I had never seen before ("Le Berger et son Troupeau") in a paper dealer's stall at Jamie's Flea Market outside Cleveland. Of course it was the last card in the set, and they had not had anything even close when I was there five months earlier. This card alone has an additional advertisement along its short side: "George J. Wallau, Inc., 153 Waverly Place, New York." The Foster City, Bailly, Bresch, Sova and Cartophilian cards are in excellent condition, while the Delage cards--except the one P card--tend to be more worn. Very few of the extras are really duplicates, since they tend to be in different formats. Can I now trust that I have a complete set of 30? The set is complete with K cards, though not with P. The final card, found after the "final" card above, turns out to be "Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles." Very few of the extras are really duplicates, since they tend to be in different formats. See below a comparison of the P and K versions of both sides of "Le Renard et le Bouc." The cards and their formats are listed after all the small representations.
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  Sogang University Notebook

  1988 Sogang University notebook with two phrases on its cover. "Slow and steady wins the race" stands just after "Life is half spent before we know what it is." Gift of Margaret Carlson Lytton, Spring, '88. One might well ask if these two morals fit together.
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  Smoke and Courage (Hebrew)

  Language note: Hebrew
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  Smoke and Brave: Sayings and Proverbs from Ethiopian Jewish Culture

  First edition
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  Smiths TH Windup Clock

  1950? Smiths TH Windup Clock. Made in England. Non-functioning. 7" in diameter. Unknown source. The minute-hand is the hare and the hour-hand the tortoise. The hour-hand in this item unfortunately hangs loose, and the windup key seems to effect nothing. The legend notes "The Tortoise creeps round once, how slow! Twelve times as fast the Hare will go…." I find similar Smiths TH versions online, including a working mantel version for $689! Another version has a second dial where "Smiths" appears in this version. Our first clock!
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  Smaller set of five colored Luneville plates

  1965? Smaller set of five colored Luneville plates. 7½" in diameter. €60 for the set from fr. Lavi on Ebay, Oct., '23. The designs here are mirror opposites of those on the colored Keller and Guerin plates just above. They also lack the golden stripe inside the rim. I continue to find these designs delightful, not least the tortoise and hare on their bicycles! After some negotiating and finally purchasing these lovely plates, I discovered the other similar Keller and Guerin plates and thought "Oh, no! I just bought things we already have!" Not true, as I found out when I opened them and compared. I would rather be lucky than good!
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  Small plastic "Color TV" with scrolled scenes of TH

  1970? Small plastic "Color TV" with scrolled scenes of TH. 12 pieces. Nobbies, Omaha? A simple idea is here translated into reality. Scroll the two wheels through a series of scenes. The paper is not always obedient to the scroller's desires!
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  Small Metal Figurine of Hare Riding Tortoise

  2015? Small Metal Figurine of Hare Riding Tortoise. 1.5" high, 1.75" long. Unknown source. The figurine, not immediately findable on the web, touches a question I have regularly had: Why is the hare riding the tortoise? The pose has nothing to do with the common Aesopic fable, but occurs frequently as a representative of that story. Might there be a different story from some other tradition?
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  Slow and Steady Wins the Race

  Adapted by Rozanne Lanczak Williams
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  Slon i Moska (The Elephant and the Pug-Dog)

  Language note: Russian
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  Skaski I Basni (Russian: Fairytales and Fables)

  Language note: Russian
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  Sixteen original cuts, either woodcuts or linocuts

  1969-80 Sixteen original cuts, either woodcuts or linocuts, signed, originally appearing in Illustration 63. All but one are folded over. 8" x 11¾" and slightly smaller. $110 for the sixteen from Paul Dufrasne, Berlin, Germany, Nov.-Dec., '00. GGE; FG; TH, CP. These fine illustrations show that Aesopic fables remain material on which good artists develop their style. My favorites from these strong works include Klaus Eberlein's FC with its strong figures and lovely colors, Herbert F. Plahl's "The Statue-Seller" with its heavy musculature and curious facial expression, and Eduard Prüssen's FC with its firm designs Helmut Ackermann: "The Fox and the Eagle," linocut. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 2. 1972. (2 copies) Helmut Ackermann: "The Wolf and the Goat," linocut and initial. 6¾" x 9½". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 3. 1981. Helmut Ackermann: FC, linocut and initial. 7½" x 11". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 3. 1980. Helmut Ackermann: "Ass and Crow," linocut on Aesop, signed. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 3. 1979. Archibald Bajorat, FC, three-colored woodcut. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 3. 1980. Klaus Eberlein, FC, four-colored linocut. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 1. 1981. Klaus Eberlein, "The Ass and the Lion," four-colored linocut. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 2. 1972. Peter Kleinschmidt: "Fox and Grapes," linocut for Flupp Hugats Sprachspiel-Variation of an Aesopic fable. 6¾" x 9½". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 1. 1979. Walther Kohlhase, "Fox and Grapes," woodcut for Flupp Hugats third variation of an Aesopic fable. 5¾" x 7½". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 1. 1979. Herbert F. Plahl, "The Birdcatcher and the Asp," woodcut. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 3. 1970. Herbert F. Plahl, "The Statue-Seller," woodcut. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 1. 1969. Eduard Prüssen, FC, woodcut. 7" x 10¼". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 3. 1980 A beautiful ink drawing on fine paper featuring the fox and the crow, who are the main characters of Jean de la Fontaine’s fable, Le Renard et le Corbeau. The expressions on the faces of the fox and the crow accurately depict the emotions of the story. Otto Schlosser, "Die Schildröte und der Adler," linocut accompanying the translation of Wilhelm Binder and Johannes Siebelis. Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 2. 1974. Annette Ziegler, "Der Kreissende Berg," two-colored linocut. 6¾" x 9½". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 1. 1973. Eugen von Zitzewitz, UP, three-colored linocut. 7½" x 10½". Beilage zu Illustration 63, Heft 2. 1981.
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  Six-inch square tile titled "The Dog and His Shadow."

  1875? Six-inch square tile titled "The Dog and His Shadow." Manufactured by Mintons China Works, Stoke on Trent. Designed by John Moyr Smith. Framed. $150 from The Jewelsmith, Tempe, AZ, through Ebay, Jan., '00. Again, lovely brown and cream colors. The title is read in curious fashion, starting from nine o'clock and reading toward three o'clock, and then restarting from eight and reading toward four. In the upper left and lower right, one needs to read going up; the key is to start as far left as possible and always move right. The dog has let go of his large piece of meat, the shadowy reflection of which falls just inside the image's circular frame. A railing on the bridge helps define the heavy horizontal framing of the scene, but leaves his tail above its line.
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  Six Various Gouget Prints

  In my short time in Paris in the summer of 2014, I managed to find a number of fable materials. Among them are broadsides or separated pages from Gouget's edition of La Fontaine in 1834 (Bodemann #279.1). There are two groups. One group of five is carefully matted but without decoration around the page of text and illustration. They are slightly colored. The seller labeled them "1834" and that was the first clue that these are Gouget's work. Gouget's signature is at the bottom of most texts. The illustrations here are slightly colored. These five are the following. And now I have found a sixth, "The Lobster and Her Young," for €20 from Albert van den Bosch, June, '23.
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  Six paper masks

  1994 Six paper masks from G.P. Putnam's Sons as a promotion in connection with Jan Brett's Town Mouse/Country Mouse The back of each mask identifies its character's name and offers apt quotations and commentary, which I show below. See also, on an advertisements page, stickers that reproduce in smaller format the four mice masks.
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  Six pages of Florian “devinettes"

  1930? Six pages of Florian “devinettes,” sets of four hidden picture fable illustrations. $6 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., ’20. These pages have the look of pages taken from a magazine, though they do not have page numbers. The verso of each presents a cartoon strip of a children’s story. Two of them are “Les Aventures de Nanette.” Bertrand sent along a sample solution, pictured just below. I find some of the pictures hard to solve!
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  Six La Fontaine Cards

  1960? 6 cards each illustrating in strong, simple color one fable of La Fontaine. 3¼" x 4¾". €3 each from Jacky Mabilat, Boutigny sur Essonne, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan.,' 05. GGE and TT for €10 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23. These are simple, strong presentations of the fables. The picture side includes the large illustration, "Fables de la Fontaine," and a title beneath. The verso contains the title again and the text of the fable. Simple forms and dramatic action are the chief qualities here.
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  Six advertising leaflets for Le Sirop de Gaïarsol

  1930? Six advertising leaflets for Le Sirop de Gaïarsol by Laboratoires Bouty in Paris. Benjamin Rabier colored illustration on the left and the same image as a line drawing on the right. Série D. "Une Fable de la fontaine -- Laquelle?" €4.50 each from mathilde9662 through Ebay, Oct.,'21. These leaflets are a curious reiteration of the series "Le Sirop de Gaïarsol" among non-stock series of trade cards. On those portrait-formatted cards a small colored version gave the color clues for coloring the larger line drawings. Here in leaflets the colored version is the same size as the version to be colored. The illustrations in this series are identical with those in that series.
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  Sirop Melangé Pomona

  1953? Sirop Melangé Pomona. Illustrating "The Cat, the Weasel, and the Hare." Art signed L. Ruymen/53. R.C. Verviers, Belgium, Sept., '08. This syrup tin presents the fable in engaging fashion. The top of the tin has the two disputants before the cat "Grippeminaud, le bon apôtre," seated on top of an inverted bushel-basket. The short sides show the three characters standing or sitting tall. The long sides reveal, in La Fontaine's French and in Walloon, that the cat "gets the two contestants in accord -- by munching on the one and the other."
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  Single tapestry of fables of La Fontaine

  1900? Single tapestry of fables of La Fontaine. 8” x 8.5’. Total width 10”. Unknown source. As in the matching pair of tapestries, this long, slender, exquisite tapestry contains six fable scenes. In order, they are WL; “The Fox and the Cat”; “The Hare and the Frogs”; TH; DS; and “Two Goats.” These are the same six subjects – and the same six images – as on Tapestry B above, but in different order. And the canvas backing of the tapestry remains at the sides of this tapestry. It is again noteworthy that none of these subjects or images occur on the broader single tapestry above.
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  Single Prize Cards

  1930? 1 small (about 2" x 2¾") colored "Bon Point" card illustrating La Fontaine's FC. #10. Phosphatine Falières. L. Bellenand et Fils. Here is an example of simple colored printing that is not exact. I presume that "Bon Point" indicates a prize card. The verso includes the moral "Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute."