1938 Drake-Wiltshire Hotel Fable Menu. Friday, September 23, 1938. Jo Mora Fable Murals. $9.99 from Michael Kopperman, Toronto, Ontario, through eBay, July, '03.
Unfold the menu and you find a nice panorama of two of the Drake-Wiltshire's fable murals. As with the fable postcards displayed elsewhere, the murals seem not to depend on any traditional fables for the match-ups among the animals. The filet mignon dinner cost $1.25!
1950? Full-page advertisement for Doxa timepieces. “Les Fables de La Fontaine: Le Heron.” 8.75” x 12.2”. Unknown source.
This full-page advertisement may echo the treatment of “Le Heron” in Doxa’s 1950 booklet. Here the message is “Do not be like the heron. Do not hesitate to buy a Doxa!” The web shows a similarly formatted Doxa advertisement using TH.
Photo of the Douglas County courthouse where the DePorres Club held their first sit-in at Dixon's Cafe in 1948.
Photo via Wikimedia under the Creative Commons License
1960? Russian pocket multiplication table with "stereotype" double-vision FS on the verso. $4.89 from Liuba Mateva-Dineva, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, March, '19.
Here is one of the more unusual items in the collection. The picture side of this stiff card shows a different picture depending on which angle one uses to view it. I am not sure that "stereotype" is appropriate but the word signals at least the double views. The approach is excellent for this fable's two phases: the clever fox prevails, and then the cleverer stork repays. This fable seems to have entered Russian culture as a popularly repeated and developed folktale. The seller mistook the multiplication table on the opposite side for a calendar. A calendar would have helped in dating this unusual item!
2000? Double Ring Featuring TH. Plastic? Two copies, one with defective tortoise. Unknown source.
This ring, or others quite similar, is readily available on the web. Our first ring is a double ring! Who would have imagined that?
