Chocolat de Royat, 1920

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0321

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

1920

Extent

4 Cards : "Les Fables de La Fontaine." Four slender portrait postcards with FS image and text. Collection du Chocolat de Royat. 1re Serie. ; (3" x 5½")

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

"A la Marquise de Sévigné." The image of FS has the fox slinking away while the stork reaches into the tall vase. WC, WL, and WS all have nicely colored small pictures, and all have the verse text of La Fontaine underneath. I am not sure that I have seen a card as narrow in one direction and as long in the other. One can probably date this card because it allows half of the verso for "correspondence." Earlier cards left the whole verso for the address of the recipient. These cards represent a crossover in that each is a postcard, a chocolate card, and an advertisement.