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Linda Chromik

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Kerr Spool Cotton, 1880

 File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 1
Identifier: CFC2018.0396
Abstract Very nice stiff cards with the full text of the fable--and lots of advertising--on the back. The special character of these cards lies in the way the artist integrates advertisement and fable. Thus the crane stands on a spool of Kerr thread to remove a spool of Kerr thread from the wolf's mouth. The "well" into which the goat looks down on the fox is the core of a column of Kerr thread-spools. In FK, the torso of each frog is a spool of thread! In FS, the stork dips his bill down not into a...
Dates: 1880