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).
1915? Four card colored-photographic postcard series of TMCM featuring children. "3127." "SE" or "ES" symbol at the lower right on each card. Each card features drawings of the fable in the upper portion, a text "bubble," the fable's title, and a large lower portion of the photographic presentation. Printed in France. $6 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.
My, there was lively competition in the early twentieth century in Paris in producing colored photographic postcard series of fables! The piling on of specifications in that last sentence surprises even me! This set is closest to Chloro-Platine WL and shares the same symbol, "SE," in the lower right corner. As that set has the number 3142 on each card, so this set has 3127. That is a five-card set, apparently complete, and I believe that this four-card set is missing a third card in the middle, especially because those four verses are the only ones left out of the fable on the cards we have. Here, as there, we have lovely coloring distinguishing the two "mice" as they are played by children. How was that coloring done at the printer's? Especially fetching in this presentation, I believe, is the scene of the two mice devouring the city banquet! Now to find that fifth card! All four were sent in 1918 to the same "Cher Cousin Alfred Pepin" (?) in "Secteur 125."
1904 5 postcard series featuring adult women portraying TMCM. Postmarked all to Mademoiselle Brugere. February 1, 1904. $35 for the set from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.
I never want to disagree with Monsieur Cocq, but I wonder if there is not a missing fourth card in a series of six. This set quotes La Fontane but, at that point, excises a few lines of his text. Is there an extra card out there somewhere, to complete this series? As it is, this photographic series presents a strong contrast between the luxuriously dressed city rat and the simpler country rat in her plain red dress.
