Ruelle Cards

Title

Ruelle Cards

Description

1960? Ten small (2" x 2¾") numbered papers advertising Ruelle "Chcolats-Bonbons" and "Bonbons/Chocolade." Even the title of the collection is bilingual: "Fabels van La Fontaine" and "Fables de La Fontaine." $8.95 for #5 OF from Vintadv, August, '18. Eight further cards for $6 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20. FC (#24) from an unknown source, Nov., '22.

These pictures are fun and exceptionally detailed. In #5, a huge bull looks through a broken fence section at a frog in a swimming suit on his back, perhaps because he has just burst. One can even make out the ox's teeth! I wonder if this collection goes beyond fables. Might it be that the verso of the first of several cards illustrating a single fable offers a bilingual title for the fable? That approach might explain why some of these slips have titles and some do not. Now the collection also includes the complete album of Ruelle slips, also listed under books at "1960?"

Date

1960?

Source

$8.95 for #5 OF from Vintadv, August, '18. Eight further cards for $6 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20. FC (#24) from an unknown source, Nov., '22.

Subject

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Chocolate and Chicorée Cards See all items with this value

Ruelle Chocolates See all items with this value

The Ox and the Frog See all items with this value

The Wolf and the Crane See all items with this value

The Fox and the Crow See all items with this value

The Tortoise and the Hare See all items with this value

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