1950? Colored cartoon card of MM. No editor or publisher acknowledged. $5 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., ’20.
Here is an unusual representation of MM! Perrette seems, as she steps on a banana peel, to be completely out of whack! Even her tongue is sticking out of her mouth. For a copy that landed elsewhere in the collection, see "Cartoon-Like Prizes." Here in any case is a very creative presentation of the fable! The verso has the fable text and nothing else.
1900? Button “Screech Owl and Mice.” Jean de La Fontaine. 1”.
The busyness of life has kept me from cataloguing this button for three years. I believe it is a rare catch! The button authentically portrays the special “trick” of this screech-owl, removing the legs of the mice he cultivated. La Fontaine seems to have admired this example of intelligence in an animal. Who wants to carry around an allusion like this on his or her buttons?
