J & P Coats Thread, 1885

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0438

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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

1885

Extent

42 Cards : 8 colored cards (apparently from a series of 8) used for J. & P. Coats Spool Cotton (unnumbered, with advertising and the fable text in various formats on the back), McPhail Pianos (each marked with the same simple number "32" and only the fable text on the back), Emerson Pianos, Eureka-Maryland Assurance and other advertisers (with various numbers introduced by "No."). Some also appear blank. Multiple copies of each card, and reverses of three. There is an advertising booklet for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pill Company that uses seven of these eight fables and their illustrations, excluding only CP. ; 3" x 5"

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

GGE: Coats: 2 copies No. 33: Butler & Kelley, Manufacturers of Ball Programmes, etc., NY, with indication on the back that there are eight cards in this fable series. 2 copies Blank back, no printing, no number

"The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle": No. 34: Jacob Doll Pianos No. 34: Church Bros. Fair, Oshkosh Wis. Coats

"The Swan and the Cook": Coats: 2 copies Blank back, no printing, no number

FC: Coats: 2 copies McPhail Pianos 32 No. 35: Emerson Pianos: D.F. Smith, Piano Dealer, West Liberty, IA (no text) No. 35: The Mt. Holly Furniture, Art, and Novelty House, Mt. Holly, NJ (no text) Reversed: Eureka-Maryland Assurance Corporation. ©FAS. 115

LM: Coats: 2 copies McPhail Pianos 32 Reversed: Eureka-Maryland Assurance Corporation. ©FAS. 115 No. 39: Blank back, no printing

OF: Coats No. 37: Blank back, no printing Eureka-Maryland Assurance Corporation, Baltimore. ©FAS. 115

CP Coats: 4 copies. The illustration is after one from Harrison Weir, as Tom Beckman points out. No. 38: Blank back, no printing

TH: Coats Emerson Pianos. No text or number. Slightly damaged back. The card may have been slightly cropped. Blank back, no printing, no number

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Between $3 and $12.50 from various dealers. Curiously, I purchased a set of seven "J.P. Coats" cards from Sherry Sonnett, Los Angeles, in May, '11, and CP is again the one missing card.