Carlson Fable Collection

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  Vintage Tin Plate with Handles

  1970? Vintage Tin Plate with Handles. FG illustration at the center. " Sarajevo "? Brass? Maximum length 12". Russian? Unknown source. Numerous copies of this plate show up immediately on Google, generally selling for about $30 on outlets like Ebay and Etsy. Part of a Russian label is still on the bottom of the plate.
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  Vintage Three-Piece TH Decal Set

  1980 Vintage Three-Piece TH Decal Set. Two copies. Carol Stream, IL: The Meyercord Co. A Johnson Matthey Company. $1.99 each from Sue Daniels, Camarillo, CA, through Ebay, Nov., '01. An 8" x 12" sheet offers a reclining bunny eating a carrot, a lumbering tortoise with pince-nez, and a bushy tree, each between 5½" and 6" across. The sheet suggests different arrangements on furniture and walls. Each comes with a stiff cardboard that provides instructions. Inflation has taken its toll. Each cost $1.15 in 1980.
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  Vintage French dust-jacket

  1940 Vintage French dust-jacket. Red. FC image by M. Lemainque. Pharmacie Moderne H.-V. Plassard, Paray-le-Monial. €5 from an unknown source, Nov., '21. This is about as simple as it gets in the genre of protège-cahiers. The inside flaps contain a ruler and a set of basic measurement tables. The back cover has tables of multiplication and division after the text of La Fontaine's FC.
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  Vintage Cigarette Box and Ashtray

  1920? Vintage pottery cigarette box and ashtray. 5¾" x 6" x 4" in height. $6.37 from Margy Farmer, Greenfield, IN, through Ebay, Sept., '00. Vintage pottery cigarette box and ashtray, with bunches of grapes on either side of the ashtray, one fox between the grapes and the box, and a second fox serving as the handle of the box. His tail has been repaired. Click on the image to see a larger reproduction.
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  Vincent Van Moose

  1962?/90? Vincent Van Moose. Volume 3 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank: Buena Vista Home Video. $9.95 at Washington Video, Georgetown, Dec., '91. The "Aesop & Son" portion here is the story of the dog and his shadow (5:20), a playful parody of the original about the dog losing a bone. The son tells Aesop the original fable in ten seconds, and so Aesop feels that he has to create something different. His fable, of questionable fable value, has a dog losing his shadow and buying one "hot" from thugs. The interplay between dog and shadow provides for all sorts of good duet games. This section comes about thirty minutes into this forty-four minute tape, after "Dudley Do-Right," Rocky and Bullwinkle at a missile-launching station, and Bullwinkle's "rabbit from a hat" trick--and just before a missile-station guard is gassed.
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  Vieillemard/Chocolat Guérin-Boutron/Chocolat Louit

  1887? 72 cards (of a set of 72) lithographed by Vieillemard et ses Fils, Rue de la Glaciere 16, Paris. Gold-bordered circular-scene lithographs, apparently signed in 1887, on one side and verse texts on the other. 2¾" x 4¼". Most are without advertising or numbers and are marked here "VF"; some, with numbers in a set of 72, advertise Chocolat Guérin-Boutron (CGB) on the image side of the card. A few of the VF cards advertise Bourcheix & Fils (BF) on the back of the card, where all others have a fable text on the back. If there are no initials with a card, it is a VF card without a Bourcheix back. One VF card advertises above its picture Musculosine Byla (MB) without numbers. Generally good condition. $50 from Doris Frohnsdorff, Rosslyn, March, '92. Additional individual cards have come from Bertrand Cocq, Spring, '01, from both P. Bresch and Annick Tilly, Clignancourt, August, '01, and from Ann Filipowich, Toronto, Feb., '15. Two more from Bertrand Cocq, August, '15. Six additional cards from Michel Lanteigne, Montreal, through eBay, May, '12. Two later cards for $14 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18. Fourteen "Chocolat-Louit" cards from Chromoset Collections for $13.06, Sept., '20. Extra of "La Vieille & les deux Servantes" advertising CGB for €5 from Simon Rodrigues through Ebay, June, '22. Excellent and witty art. Often an animal story is rendered in a human scene, as in FG (a thin man walks away from a butcher shop), DW (a bum walks with a dog-leading burgher), 2P (a rich man throws money, while a poor man has to dig into his pocket for it), and TH (a legless beggar beats a legged one!). The art seems heavily dependent on Grandville (note the face of the bumpkin in "The Cock and the Pearl"), with perhaps some influence from Doré. 68 cards, of which ten feature fables of Florian and the other fifty-eight present fables by La Fontaine. I have some twenty doubles besides. I long imagined that some such set must exist, and I am delighted at last to find one! And now I am further delighted to have completed the set. Good work Bertrand! I have followed the orthography of the card fronts in writing the titles of the fables.An extra copy of FK has "Chocolat-Louit" stamped right over "Chocolat Guerin-Boutron." There may well be a story behind that second stamp imposed on the first. That card also seems to lack a series number found on the other CBG card.
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  Video Scrapbook #46: The Best of Aesop's Fables

  1935?/98? Video Scrapbook #46: The Best of Aesop's Fables. Black-and-white. 100 minutes. Paul Terry. Aesop's Sound Fables. Pathé. RCA Photophone. Van Beuren Corporation. £10 from Hollywood's Attic, Burbank, CA, through Whatamibid, April, '00. I watched one or two of these cartoons. They include some talking, usually done very carefully and deliberately. There is a heavy accent on song-and-dance numbers and very little accent on plot. Typically a cartoon will end with a proverb, which we are meant to take as Aesop's moral. Just after that "Aesop's Fables" are presented as "Sugar Coated Pills of Wisdom."
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  Victorian Derby Silver Basket with FS Internal Image

  1950? Victorian Derby Silver Basket with FS Internal Image. Derby Silver Company Quadruple Plate. 1138? 6" in diameter; basket is 1.75" high. Unknown source. Here is a well preserved basket with its movable handle intact. I find comparable copies with the same number at about $50. A similar copy had a clearer "8" at the end of "1138."
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  Verminck Graph-Paper Notebooks

  1935? Four graph-ruled 16-page notebooks offered by "Etablissements Verminck," a major producer of products from peanuts, some edible and some not, like soap, as the advertisements suggest. Orange and black, including on each cover an image and quotation from a La Fontaine fable. Artist: Paul Igert. $5 each from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, Feb., '05. The notebook with the WC cover is filled with computations and titled as notebook for vacation duties at the beginning of the "2eme." To my surprise, it is dated 1969! I would have presumed that these booklets were printed in the 1930's. Paul Igert signs all but the "Bear and the Gardener." He seems to have been born in 1899. In the 1890's, the Verminck family may have been the most powerful influence in Marseilles, the port through which the raw materials for their industry came.
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  Vermifuge Lune, Marie-Rose, Galet, Pastilles Liberia

  1930? Six handbills offering fable texts and illustrations with advertising on the verso. Three advertise Vermifuge Lune: WC (#13), “Oyster and Litigants” (#22) and MM (#24. $5 each from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, May, '05. One, including an extra copy, presents FC (#12) and advertises Marie-Rose, a “Lotion Végétale Parfumée.” Two present GA (#10) and “The Worker and His Children” (#30) and advertise “La Lessive Galet” and “L’Eau de Javel à L’Ancre.” These three for $6 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., 20. Printed by Imageries Réunies de Jarville-Nancy. Three (#5, 13, 15) printed for Pastilles Liberia for £20 each from amgarchive through Ebay, May, '22. I had not known that "worms" were such a fear for mothers in 1930. Lune seems to have had a long run, to judge from Pinterest exemplars of their two and three dimensional advertisements. WC may be the most engaging of the three Lune illustrations, with its monkey servants. It is this handbill asks for 5, not 6, francs per box of Lune. Dewormers, detergents, and nit-removers! Fables take us into a very concrete human world! See other Marie-Rose handbills here. Notice the contrasting color work on the two versions of #13, WC.
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  Verkades Reintje de Vos

  1920? "Reintje de Vos." Six small trade cards advertising Verkade's Chocolate. Serie 59, Numbers 1-6. 1⅞" x 3½". €15 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23. This small set catches one of the "fable" elements in this Dutch rendition of the Renard story, the horse's outwitting of the wolf. Renard's conquest of the wolf is quite graphic at the end of the series!
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  Venture Magazine, May 5, 1991

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  Velvet Smokie Tobacco

  1925? Velvet Smoking Tobacco. Unknown magazine. $10 from an unknown source, Feb., '24. "A race ain't all in getting' started first" says the terrapin as he passes the rabbit on the road. The bespectacled terrapin is of course smoking a pipe as he passes the sleeping hare. It has been fun trying to date this advertisement. Clues include the reference to "Velvet Joe" and the markings on the tobacco tin. Velvet is boasting of the slow start their tobacco gets by being aged two years.
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  Velazquez' portrait of Aesop

  Velazquez' portrait of Aesop (large format) from the Prado. From the Milwaukee Antique Center, Jan., '88. Who would ever think that someone would make a poster of Aesop!
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  Van Cortenbergh, Brussels

  1900? Two portrait postcards with black-and-white illustrations and a moral. Illustrations after Oudry and Gheeraerts? €4 from ABC de la C.P.A., Lyon, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05 and for €3 from St. Ouen, August, '13.
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  Value vs. Growth.

  Value vs. Growth. Advertisement for Southwest Airlines. "Southwest Airlines Spirit" magazine, Oct. '01. 8½" x 11".
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  Valmid II

  Language note: Estonian
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  Valmid I

  Language note: Estonian
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  Valentine's Day Cards

  1970? Movable Valentine greeting card featuring "The Fable of the Lion and the Mouse." 4" x 7½". Made in U.S.A. $5.50 "laustin1" on Ebay, Feb., '02. The lion moves his head back and forth and says "Hi! I'd be so G-r-r-grateful if you'd be my Valentine." In the meantime, the mouse gnaws on his rope.
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  Vahine Fèves x 12

  2008 Set of 12 fèves of the fables of La Fontaine by Vahine. €10.99 for 11 of the 12 from genealogos on Ebay, July, '20. $1.79 for the twelfth fève, the hare, from Sandysandciestore on Ebay, August, '20. This group of fèves is unusual for being paired. Fables are of course often about pairs encountering each other. In this case, each little statue is shaped to fit alongside its partner. So I offer photos of the "couples."
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  Vad var det jag läste? 2

  This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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  Usborne Illustrated Fables from Around the World

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  USA Album of FDC from Around the World

  1995 "First Day Covers from Around the World." USA album page and specimen. FDC envelope of June 24, 1995, from Chateau-Thierry to an address in Voorheesville, NY with a 2.80 Franc stamp and a colorful mélange of fable scenes. With a page from a USA album presenting FDC specimens from around the world, ©Postal Commemorative Society. $.99 from Joyce Lapointe, Perkinsville, VT, through eBay, March, '16. The page offers a map-sketch showing France's relative position in Europe and several paragraphs on La Fontaine, fables, and French literature. The envelope in English is clearly designated for use in this album or albums like it and is labelled "First Day of Issue, France." Its verso has the title apparently of the whole album, "First Day Covers from Around the World." The envelope fits into a slot in the oversized page. This is one of those eBay experiences where our postage for some postage costs more than the postage item we are purchasing!
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  Unusual Aesop's Fables

  Witty Tales of Ancient Wisdom. Told by Elizabeth Gibson. Music & sound by Pete Butler. 54 minutes. Carmichael, CA: E.J.R. Gibson – Publishing.
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  Unframed Cross stitch of FC

  2004 Unframed Cross stitch of FC. 11.2" x 7.5". Image 6.6" x 4.25". Unknown source. Imagine my surprise when I found an exact copy unframed. Can we assume that a pattern was somewhere published and many people followed the pattern? Like the framed copy above, this is very nice work! As there, the crow is perched on top of a roof rather than in a tree. The composition is lovely. Trees on either side frame the house together with the two characters.