1835 Transferware Plate "The Fox and the Grapes." 6¼" diameter. "Aesop's Fables." Copeland and Garrett. $50 from Alphabetiques, Montague, MA, through Ebay, Sept., '19
The artistry of the green illustration occupying the center of this small plate expresses the fable well. The fox is walking away but he is still looking back at the grapes. He has given up on them and, though he is bad-mouthing them, he would still want to have them. The verso includes "Copeland and Garrett Late Spode."
2018 Flattop Aesop card. Garbage Pail Kids. #6a of 19. Topps Company. $1.25 from GamesandCards, Los Angeles, through Ebay, July, ’21. Extra copy for $1.99 from CSC on Amazon, July, '21.
Apparently this card comes from a series titled “We Hate the ‘80s.” Others will understand better than I if this character has anything to do with the character we know as Aesop. From what I know of “Garbage Pail Kids,” the scene depicted here fits! Even though our collection now boasts of 22 different kinds of cards, I could not find a category into which this card fit!
1991? Portrait-formatted colored painting get-well card. The front shows a mouse in a robe, with slippers on its feet and a steaming pot of tea at its side. "Country mouse…or city…" reads the outside caption, to be finished inside with "Happy Healing!" Ambassador: Hallmark 135ZF 323R. Gift of Vera Ruotolo, July, '92.
I would never have thought that Aesopic fables would appear in the world of get-well-cards, but here one is!
2000? Tote bag from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.
The reproduction on this tote bag features the same image used on the cover of the library's publication Fabula Docet, namely the illustration for "The Wolves, Shepherds, and Dogs" in Ulrich Boner's Der Edelstein (1461). Click on the image to see an enlargement.
1979 Tortoise Running Relay Race. Schmid 0215. Pewter. Made in USA. Unknown source.
What an energetic turtle! I searched a long time on the web to find a companion figure of a hare. Perhaps this is none. After all, this turtle is running a relay race!
