Tuck Wolf and Stork, 1915

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0374.4

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

10 Cards

Language of Materials

English

Dutch; Flemish

Italian

Portuguese

Spanish; Castilian

Additional Description

Abstract

D1. "The Wolf and the Stork." In this parody of WC, A wolf dressed in a German officer's great coat with spurs and sword menaces a Turkish stork, who holds a bone in his hand. The card's own explanation is "It seems that Turkey, and the other friends of Germany, have to be content with very little gratitude for the help they have given." Series title: "Aesop's Fables Up to Date."

D2. "De Wolf en de Ooievaar." Series title: "De Lessen van Aesopus op Onzen tijd Toegepast."

D3. "Il Lupo e la Cicogna." The card's back tells the fable in Italian and then adds: "A quanto pare la Turchia e gli altri alleati della Germania devono accontentarsi, come la cicogna, per l'aiuto da essi prestato, di un compenso di quel genere."

D4. "O Lobo e a Cegonha." The card's back tells the fable in Portuguese and then adds: "De mesmo feitio parece que a Turquia e os outros amigos d'Alemanha terão de se contentar com bem pouco reconhecimento pelos serviços que prestaram." Series title: "As Fabulas de Aesopo Modernisadas."

D5. "El Lobo y la Cigüeña." 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, for $25 from Dick Lightle, April, '00, and for $4 from Betty Jette, Epsom, NH, through Ebay, July, '99.

Gift of Jerry McKevitt, Feb., '96.

12,000 Lire at the Porta Portese flea market, August, '98.

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

$14.25 from "Dittos," Grayland, WA, through Ebay, Feb., '02.