Clamaron Blue MM, 1890

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0437

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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

1890

Extent

6 Cards : 5 cards beginning a set presenting La Fontaine's MM. The cards follow the fable's text up to a natural break preceding a reflection ("Do not all of us daydream?") by La Fontaine. Perhaps there is another card or two in the series. Paris: Imp. Clamaron, Rue St. Jacques.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The pictures are monochromatic blue-and-white, with five or six lines per card at the bottom. The text and picture are not coordinated. In the text, for example, Perette is still thinking about cows when the picture already shows the milk fallen. The whole series ends with the line "They call it 'The Pot of Milk.'" Half the backs feature advertising for Mouchonnet's Teinturerie in Paris and half Sedille's Chaussures in Rouen. I take it that the backs were printed by firms other than Clamaron. The former three were printed by Pelluard (also in the Rue St. Jacques), while the latter three show this curious phrase: "Imp. P. H berer & Cie." Apparently, a letter or two has eroded between the "H" and the "b."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$20 for the five from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Nov., '00. Extra copy, cropped, of Card 3 for 40 Francs from Annick Tilly, Clignancourt, August, '99.