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"Les Fables de Lafontaine: Le Renard & Le Corbeau." Bonbon Tin, 1930

 Item — Box: CFC Cans and Tins Box 4
Identifier: CFC2018.0147.1

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

  • 1930

Extent

1 Container : French circular bonbon tin. "Les Fables de Lafontaine: Le Renard & Le Corbeau." La Pierette. Bonbons Surfins. ; 7" in diameter.

Language of Materials

French

Abstract

The fox already has the crow's cheese in his mouth on the cover of this bonbon tin. The cover represents an expanded version of a circular card I have, also from Surfins. It is on display with two other Surfin cards; click here to see it. About half an inch is cut from the circumference of this illustration to make that one. This tin is in fair to good condition.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$7 from Anna Benichou, Strasbourg, through Luz Pintos, Carolina, PR, May, '01.

Repository Details

Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository

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