1949? Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare Picture Puzzle. Harvey Famous Cartoons. No. 1230. Sta-N-Place Inlaid Puzzles. Made in USA. Unknown source and date of acquisition.
Now this is surprising. Recently I bought a picture puzzle, complete and boxed, of TH. It is the item just above. I soon realized that it was the same picture as a picture puzzle that I had found earlier, but missing two pieces and having no box. It is indeed the same picture, but slightly different in size, with a different border, and -- most remarkable to me -- with differently cut pieces. That is why I provide a small sample and a signature in addition to the overview of this puzzle.
1949 Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare Picture Puzzle. Over 70 large pieces. Ages 5 to 10. Harvey Famous Cartoons. No. 1017. Warren Built-Rite Puzzles. CFC 2020.0152.1. $3.99 from Bob & Veronica Quinn, Trimble MO through Ebay. June, '03.
This picture has the Tommy on a bicycle upending Moe with bowling pins flying before a large human crowd and a clown. All the pieces are there!
1996 Tom Toles, US News and World Report. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton as Tortoise and Hare. Tom Toles. US News and World Report. 1996. Unknown source.
The plodding tortoise wants to talk character as the hare reads Playboy Magazine. The hare answers “Talking got me this far.”
1982 Fourteen (of sixteen?) numbered postcards by Nikolai Romadin of fables and stories by Leo Tolstoy. 4⅛" x 5⅞". Moscow: Sovetsky Khudozhnik. Seven of them for C$14.99 and five for C$22.50 from Lovelystamps, IL, Israel, on Ebay, Sept., '21. Card #6 for AU$15.98 from postcardsworld through Ebay, Sept., '21. Card #3 for C$4.99 from block36 through Ebay, Sept., '21.
Many of these illustrations present Tolstoy’s renditions of standard Aesopic fables. Others may be "adaptations." For example, "The Shipwreck" (#2), seems an adaptation of Aesop’s "Hercules and the Wagon Driver." Still others are stories I have not yet been able to pin down, like "Sea, Rivers, and Streams" (#3); "The Monkey and Other Animals" (#4); "Fisherman" (#9), and ""Ram, Cat, and Boy" (#14).
