Produced and adapted by John Hohmann. Designed by Janet Albrecht. Illustrations by Dominick Giustino. Storytelling by Carl Grapentine. NY: Beanstalk Productions.
1968 Monty Gum Daily Fables. 2nd series complete set: #73-144. M.M. Chanowski Productions. Monty Fabrieken. £49.99 from gum-guide-auctionsuser through Ebay, April, '23.
Verso portions of the 72 cards put together create a large single picture featured above. Card #74 presents FC and #137 TT.
1968 Monty Gum Daily Fables. 1st series complete set: #1-72. M.M. Chanowski Productions. Monty Fabrieken. £25 from London Cigarette Card Company, April, '23.
Verso portions of the 72 cards put together create a large single picture featured above. Card #35 presents FG. These cards are in superb condition!
1968 Monty Gum Daily Fables. 3rd series complete set: #145-216. M.M. Chanowski Productions. Monty Fabrieken. £75 from gum-guide-auctions thrrugh Ebay, May, '23.
Verso portions of the 72 cards put together create a large single picture featured above. Card #154 represents GA and 169 represents FS. These cards are in superb condition!
2003 Montmorillon: Deuxieme Salon de l'Image et de l'Écrit: "Les Fables de La Fontaine." 23 numbered postcards out of a series of 50 published in a limited edition of 1000 for this exhibit at Montmorillon, France, June 14-15, 2003. Various artists. $50 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '18." Council of Rats" for €2.98 from nutshat through Ebay, June, '22. 23 further cards for €3.50 each from nutshat through Ebay, August, '22.
These cards exhibit lively artistry. They are marked by a common orthography in presenting the fable title on the image side and a common format on the message side. Montmorillon is known as a book town and describes itself on the message side of the cards as "Cité de l'Écrit et des Métiers du Livre." One of the liveliest cards, UP by Claude Coudray, is the title card for a set of black-and-white cards found earlier from the wife of the artist at a card fair in Paris in Jan., '05. "The Pig, Goat and Lamb" (#37) by André le Guilloux I had also found as part of a group purchased from the artist at the same card fair. I list it both here and there. This show was a wonderful outpouring of imagination directed to La Fontaine's fables! Among the highlights of this group, I point to FS (#7), for which both animals have their heads buried in menus! In "Fox and Goat" (#11), both animals wait for service from a waiter bringing bear and food! In #18, the horse uses a cart to carry the ass and his load.
2021 Ten cardlets containing coins of Jean de La Fontaine and his fables. Illustrations by Thomas Baas. Coins designed by Joaquin Jimenez, General Engraver of Monnaie de Paris.
How to pay tribute to Jean de La Fontaine without mentioning the Fables? Monnaie de Paris wanted to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the poet by reinterpreting his work. The reverse of each card contains the complete fable in its original version. Both the cards and the coins are nicely executed! I negotiated with the seller to avoid the ridiculously high postal charges; for that I had to give up getting an original box.
