MM Croissant- Sazerac, 1911

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0325

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

1911

Extent

3 Cards : La Laitiere et le Pot au Lait: Fable de La Fontaine. Colored series of 5 portrait postcards photographed by Sazerac and published by Croissant.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The unusual thing about this set is the coloration of the photographs. The picturing of the dreaming of the milkmaid in the upper left corner of the card seems so similar to what I have seen in other postcard series of MM. Thils sries of five cards completes the narrative of this fable. Might there be a sixth presenting La Fontaine's following comment on the normal human habit of wishful daydreaming?

Immediate Source of Acquisition

3 cards for €10 from Cpaphil, Saint-Fargeau, France, August, '13. Two additional cards in the series (#4 and #5) from Bertrand Cocq, along with duplicates of #1 and #3, for $6 each, Sept., '20. Extras of Cards #2 and #3 for €1.30 each from for collecman through Ebay, Jan., '23.