"La Fontaine's Fabelen" tin, 1925

Item — Box: CFC Cans and Tins Box 2

Identifier: CFC2023.0043.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1925

Extent

1 Container : Dutch tin container with led proclaiming "La Fontaine's Fabelen" and illustrating MSA. The four sides, with scenes labeled in Dutch from TMCM, FS, "The Farmer and His Children," and FG. ; About 6½" x 4¼"

Language of Materials

Dutch; Flemish

Additional Description

Abstract

This nostalgic canister – from candy? – presents delightful colored presentations of MSA, TMCM, and "The Farmer and His Children" and pleasant silhouettes of FS and FG. The clothing in the first two colored segments is especially apt. When people ask what my favorite fable might be, I usually mention MSA, since it has been the story of so much of my life! What a delight this object is! Click on this canister's image to see all four sides presented! Imagine my surprise when I found this canister again offered -- for one-tenth the price of the first exemplar!