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FC with La Fontaine Medallion, 1910

 Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 4
Identifier: CFC2018.0378.20.2

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

  • 1910

Extent

1 Cards : FC pictured in portrait format above a medallion and signature of "De lafontaine." ; just over 3" x 5"

Language of Materials

French

Abstract

This small (just over 3" x 5") postcard reduplicates in slightly larger form a card I have listed and displayed under "Stock Singles." That card advertises Joseph Lervilles' moka and chicoree. This card was never filled out or sent. Now two weeks after first cataloguing the card, I see it offered on Ebay with markings from Bensdorp Cocoa in Holland and described there as very scarce.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

60 Francs from P. Bresch, Clignancourt, August, '01.

Source

Repository Details

Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository

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