Tuck Fox and Grapes, 1915

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0374.1

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

1915

Extent

12 Cards

Language of Materials

English

Portuguese

Spanish; Castilian

Additional Description

Abstract

A1. "The Fox and the Grapes." This parody of FG is explained well by the card itself: "The Germans, after their armies had vainly attempted to reach Paris, Calais, Petrograd, and Verdun, tried to pretend that these were not their objects." Series title: "Aesop's Fables Up to Date."

A2. "A Raposa e as Uvas Verdes." Portuguese. See the adjacent English printing for the card's ppolitical application. Series title: "As Fabulas de Aesopo Modernisadas."

A3. "La Zorra y las Uvas." Spanish. See the adjacent English printing for the card's political application. Series title: "Actualidad de Esopo."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$11.17 as part of a complete set from Susan Brouwer, Hesperia, CA, through Ebay, July, '00. Extra exemplars for $11.25 from Carolyn Nimmer Dias through Ebay, March, '99, and for $4.95 from Philip Weyland, Downey, CA, through Ebay, Nov., '01. Extra for $10 from Barbumer6, Jenkintown, PA, through eBay, March, '04.

$25 from Dick Lightle, Shawnee, KS, Sept., '99.

$14.25 from "Dittos," Grayland, WA, through Ebay, Feb., '02. Extra copy for €14.06 from Akpool, Berlin, Jan., '20. Extra copy for $6.50 from marupostcards in Uruguay through Ebay, Jan., '21.