1890? An octagonal plate almost 10" in diameter with a 7¼" gray-and-white circular design at its center presenting TT. The back of the plate shows two registry marks and a crown through a circle surrounding a coat of arms with "BWM & Co" across it and "Fables" underneath it. Above it is "Cauldon, England." Hanley, Staffordshire: Brown-Westhead, Moore and Company. $65 from Debra Johnson, Rock Hill, SC, through eBay, May, '06.
There are no chips in this substantial plate. The design, showing the moment just before lift-off, is repeated elsewhere in Brown-Westhead, Moore and Company productions. The design spills over nicely into the ridge connecting the center of this plate with its rim. The specific color here seems to me to be a combination of gray, brown, and black.
2005 An Aesop Adventure. For use with a booklet of the same name, featuring "Fables, Songs and Activities for the Elementary Classroom." By Cristi Cary Miller and Sally Raymond. Hal Leonard Corporation.
Here are lively musical tracks, both vocal and purely instrumental, to accompany each of the booklet's eight fables. For example, the song for "The Farmer and the Stork" stresses that bad company will hurt a person. FG gets the repeated refrain "Hey, what do you say? He didn't want it anyway." This music is certainly upbeat! The purely instrumental version of each would allow the students to sing to musical accompaniment. The musical titles, listed on the CD, help communicate these lessons well. "Nobody Believes a Liar" and "One Step at a Time" are good examples. At first I listened to this disc without reference to its booklet and without seeing these titles, and I sometimes had to wonder which fable might be involved.
