Item
English Matchboxes
- Title
- English Matchboxes
- Description
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2000? Set of five English matchboxes, each with a black-and-white image on one face and the corresponding fable text on the obverse. "AV 30." Made in Japan. Cornish Match Company, Cornwall, St. Ives, GB. $50 from Leonie Walker, Derbyshire, England, through eBay, Feb., '12.
A quick guess says that these are Bewick illustrations. The fables presented are OR, TH, CP, AD, and "The Countryman and the Snake." - Source
- $50 from Leonie Walker, Derbyshire, England, through eBay, Feb., '12.
- Date
- 2000?
- Subject
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- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection





