Item
Ruelle Cards
- Title
- Ruelle Cards
- Description
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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
- Cards See all items with this value
- 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
- The Fox and the Grapes See all items with this value
- The Oak and the Reed See all items with this value
- The Wolf and the Fox See all items with this value
- The Two Goats See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection










