1926 Milwaukee Dairy Supply Mfg. Co. Milwaukee Filler and Cappers. $9 from John Huckeby, New Castle, IN, through Ebay, Dec., '99.
July, 1926 calendar, about 4½" x 10", signed by Milo Winter and showing a proud dog sitting in a sweater on a house-step, perhaps about to be attacked by the dog in a rough collar approaching unseen from the side of the house. Underneath the illustration we read: "Pride goes before a fall -- Aesop." This may be the first printed Milwaukee material that I have in the collection! The reverse shows a picture of the Type L "Big New Filler" for milk bottles. If it is from Milwaukee, I suppose it should have to do with either beer or milk! For me several things are not certain: that the attribution to Aesop is warranted, what fable it might have come from, or how it applies to the scene pictured here.
1900? Two frictographic advertising pamphlets for Wood-Milne, an apparent manufacturer of rubber shoe heels. "Les Fables de La Fontaine."
This is surely one of the more curious parts of the collection! Fortunately, there has been little attempt to do what the instructions on the inside back cover, as featured in Bertrand's photo below, call for: rubbing the apparently empty inside pages to find each revealing a fable of La Fontaine. Clever attempts on my scanner have failed to make the outlines of these images appear without rubbing the pages. I will certainly take Bertrand's word for it that these two pamphlets are rare, and I suspect that having both of them, with different sets of fables in each, is even rarer. My, where fables show up can be surprising!
