Tuck Dog and Shadow, 1915

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0374.5

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

9 Cards

Language of Materials

English

Spanish; Castilian

Dutch; Flemish

Additional Description

Abstract

E1. "The Dog and the Shadow." A wooden dog in Kaiser helmet labeled "Made in Germany" drops a sausage labeled "Prosperity" into water, in which is reflected a sausage labeled "World Dominion." The card's own explanation: "Germany has lost the prosperity she had so laboriously acquired, in the vain endeavour to obtain the mastery of the world." Series title: "Aesop's Fables Up to Date."

E2. "El Perro y la Sombra." Spanish. A wooden dog in Kaiser helmet labeled "Made in Germany" drops a sausage labeled "Prosperidad" into water, in which is reflected a sausage labeled "Dominio del Mundo." Series title: "Actualidad de Esopo." Text and politicized moral in Spanish.

E3. "De Hond en Zijn Schaduw." Dutch

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$11.17 as part of a complete set from Susan Brouwer, Hesperia, CA, through Ebay, July, '00. Extra exemplars for $25 from Dick Lightle, Shawnee, KS, Sept., '99, and, in slightly poorer condition at Sacramento Paper Fair, Dec., '96. Extra for $10 from Barbumer6, Jenkintown, PA, through eBay, March, '04.

$14.25 from "Dittos," Grayland, WA, through Ebay, Feb., '02. Extra copy for $19 at Sacramento Paper Fair, Dec., '96. Extra copy for €14.06 from Akpool, Berlin, Jan., '20.