Three leaflets in a series advertising Sirop Laxatif Gobey, 1930

File — Box: CFC Advertising Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0612.1

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

1930

Extent

3 Sheets : Three leaflets in a series advertising Sirop Laxatif Gobey, each offering a colored image and an image to color. 2P, OF, and TMCM. Signed “P.K d’A.” Paste-over indicating either producer or distributor: Labunis, S.A., in Brussels.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

It is easy to find Gobey laxatives on the web and many humorous cards they produced for their laxative syrup, meant particularly for children, young women, and older people. These cards to color do not show up among them. For me, the best of these three is the one that a young hand started to imitate but got only as far as some orange and a very little bit of brown. The coloration and facial expressions are particularly well done in this colored scene.