1930? Coin purse advertising Luis Knierim Café. "Restaurant and Furnished Rooms for Gentlemen Only." Wheeling, West Virginia. Image of "The Frog and the Mouse."
Now here is a first. A coin purse! There is an irony here. "The Frog and the Mouse" is a story of ugly hospitality. After the host mouse shows great hospitality to the guest frog, the host frog drowns the guest mouse -- but pays for it in the end by being supper for a hawk. Not the best advertisement for furnished rooms!
2024 Cocktail and mocktail card advertisements. Kingfisher Institute, Creighton University. April 2, 2024.
Each year the Kingfisher Institute offers a get-together for Creighton faculty and staff. In April of 2024, they did so in conjunction with Reinert Alumni Library. The event has two special features: a game of trivial pursuits and a special cocktail or mocktail of the day. This year the event celebrated the Carlson Fable Collection by basing a set of the trivial pursuit challenges on the fable collection. For added fun, they based the drink of the day on La Fontaine, playing with his name as "the fountain" of youth. What fun!
1920? 8" cream-colored plate with a blue-green colored design depicting CJ. The plate reads "Fables de LaFontaine" and "Le Coq et la Perle." The partial back stamp reads "Porcelaine …e de Gien." There is a registry mark on the plate's back. $35 from Linda Leffingwell, Doyestown, PA, June, '11.
The block lettering is typical of Gien work. The cock is dramatically positioned in the center of the scene and oriented to the pearl just beneath him. The scene covers the entirety of the front of the plate.
As part of their boycott against the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the DePorres Club visited local businesses and collected signatures in support of their efforts.
Box 8, Folder 8
As part of their boycott against the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the DePorres Club visited local businesses and collected signatures in support of their efforts.
Box 8, Folder 8
As part of their boycott against the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the DePorres Club visited local businesses and collected signatures in support of their efforts.
Box 8, Folder 8
As part of their boycott against the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the DePorres Club visited local businesses and collected signatures in support of their efforts.
Box 8, Folder 8
2000? Cloth presentation of Edward Bawden’s “Aesop’s Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise.” Created from Bawden’s color linocut, published by Curwen Prints. Cloth from the Royal Academy of Arts. 28” x 18”. Unknown source.
This lovely piece has brought some answers and then more questions. I was surprised to find that it is done from a famous, rare, expensive linocut by Bawden. I am surprised that this cloth is 18” x 28”, whereas Bawden’s original was 18” x 22”. One question has not been answered. What kind of cloth is this? Dishcloth? Hanging? Are we meant to begin from the lower left to follow the back-and-forth route? The hare moves from energy to sleep, while the tortoise does not change much along the way. At the end he awaits the hare. Well done!
