Flan Imperial Trade Cards, Album, 1930

Item

Identifier: CFC2022.0013

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

1 Linear Feet ; 12" x 9⅜"

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

A second album including 14 cards. The second album fills in several of the cards missing among the individual cards. I recommend keeping it with the cards.

"Cards" is an overstatement for these 2½" x 3½" slips of paper. On one side is a colored illustration, title, and number. On the verso is the text of the fable and, after #96, an indication that there are two albums to be filled out, Album No. 1 for Fables #1-#96 and Album No. 2 for Fables #97-#192. Of course, the collector in me is already wondering where I can find the two complete albums. The color work is sometimes better than one would expect for a simple effort like these illustrations. Two favorites of mine are "The Robbers and the Ass" (#4) and "The Lark and Her Young" (#76). I am a little surprised that I have not run into a single card from this large set before this time. I am unsure of the reference of the cabbage and pot in "The Untrustworthy Depositary" (#176).