1995 5 notecards, made to match their appropriate envelopes by placing an enlarged image of the fable stamp at the left edge of the landscape paper. Almost 4" x 8¼". The stamps in question are the Fables of La Fontaine stamps issued on June 24, 1995. $15 for the cards and envelopes from Loic Marchat, Villeurbanne, France, through Ebay, Jan., '02.
The five notecards are all inscribed by a young hand, most with warm messages like "Je vous aime" or "Je vous adore." The cards are unusual in having no apparent identifying marks. Other than a title, a picture, and a verse or two, there is nothing printed on either side of these cards.
1995 6 small envelopes, each featuring in its upper left corner a cartoon in the same style as the stamp but showing a different scene. Its stamp is then from the same fable in the series of La Fontaine fable stamps issued on June 24, 1995. All are postmarked on that day, and each envelope is noted as "Premier Jour d'Émission." On the back of each envelope is La Fontaine's fable and acknowledgement of Claudine and Roland Sabatier as the creators of both the stamp and the illustration on the envelope. $24 from Loic Marchat, Villeurbanne, France, Sept., '04.
Now here is yet another incarnation of the designs of this series. Here the stamps' artists create another scene from the same fable in the same style as the stamp that they created. The tortoise checking his watch as he goes is especially cute. FC's scene seems to be a daylight counterpart to the stamp's night-time scene. The grasshopper in this series comes off as not just an artist but a weirdo!
During the DePorres Club boycott of the purchase of Coca Cola Bottling Company, the management staged a photoshoot to claim the hiring of African Americans.
Box 8, Folder 8
During the DePorres Club boycott of the purchase of Coca Cola Bottling Company, the management staged a photoshoot to claim the hiring of African Americans.
Box 8, Folder 8
During the DePorres Club boycott of the purchase of Coca Cola Bottling Company, the management staged a photoshoot to claim the hiring of African Americans.
Box 8, Folder 8
During the DePorres Club boycott of the purchase of Coca Cola Bottling Company, the management staged a photoshoot to claim the hiring of African Americans.
Box 8, Folder 8
During the DePorres Club boycott of the purchase of Coca Cola Bottling Company, the management staged a photoshoot to claim the hiring of African Americans.
Box 8, Folder 8
1906? Colored postcard of "Le Cerf et la Vigne." $8 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18.
A curious feature of this early colored postcard is the presence of a second animal in the scene. In the fable, it is hunters that discover the stag because he disturbed the vine. It is perhaps one of the hunters' dogs. If so, it is quite a large dog. The stag is also surprisingly here out in the open. That situation makes it easier for the artist, I suppose, but is not so true to the fable.
1835 Staffordshire Plate "The Lion, the Bear, & the Fox." 8¼" diameter. "Aesop's Fables." Copeland and Garrett. $50 from Alphabetiques, Montague, MA, through Ebay, Sept., '19.
Here is a lovely presentation in green of the fable in which the lion and bear wear each other out in struggling over the carcass of a deer. Exhausted, the two need to lie and watch as a fox carries away the prey that they have fought over. The verso has clear markings of "Spode" and the quoted titles above.
William had entered the seminary while John was still at West Point and kept in close contact with him after he was discharged from the military. In February 1917, John formally entered the Society of Jesus as a novice at St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri. Here, he would begin his formal religious training that marked a turning point in his life. The strict regime of his West Point training was not so different from John’s new lifestyle, now filled with mediation, silence, and reflection instead of field exercises and battle tactics. He would build his knowledge of philosophy, theology, and faith that would set a foundation for his contributions towards racial justice and equality. Following in William's footsteps, John immersed himself in the mission to help the surrounding settlements of those previously enslaved by the Jesuits. (Photos, B12F13)
1835 Spode tureen lid featuring OR. About 4¼: x 5½" x 2¾". $75 from AestheticAntiques.com, Nov., '20.
Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter at Aesthetic Antiques have a wide offering of fable materials. This was the least expensive. I am unsure of how we are to understand the side opposite the clear presentation of OR. The main side itself is puzzling. Is the oak bending over in the wind? If so, the bird further in the foreground seems unaffected, and the tree seems to be holding its own.
1835? Spode medium-sized platter picturing "The Mountain in Labour" in their series "Aesop's Fables." 10¼" x 8". $150 from Aesthetic Transferware, May, '20.
The mouse is appropriately difficult to find at first in this grand scene. There are several people in the left foreground who seem to be uninvolved or uninterested in the "big doings" that have brought a group of people out of the town on the far right. These people have come some distance, only to be disappointed. I offer a detail of the central image below the platter.
1835? Spode ashette or medium-sized platter picturing "The Crow and the Pitcher" in their series "Aesop's Fables." 8½" x 6". £28 from newcowper through Ebay, Nov., '19.
As with each 19th-century Spode piece I see, the design here is exquisite. I would have to check with the sort of people who ran Downton Abbey to know just when an ashette like this would be used, but it would be lovely, even though I wonder about people taking food off of platters showing crows and rocks!
1835 Spode large soup tureen lid featuring TH. Staffordshire green transferware. Copeland and Garrett -- New Blanche Potteries. 11" long x 9" wide x 4¾" tall. $150 from AestheticAntiques.com, Oct., '22.
As Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter at Aesthetic Antiques wrote, "Ornate moulded handle, a plethora of oversized flowers, a famous fable, does it get any better than this?"
