"The Ass Eating Thistles " card advertising Stapler Crackers, 1908

Item — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0448.2

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.

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Dates

1908

Extent

1 Cards : One colored "The Ass Eating Thistles " card advertising Stapler Crackers from the Original Trenton Cracker Company. ; 2¾" x 4"

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Sickle-like arcs divide the colored image into two sections. The large upper portion shows the ass eating thistles. Arcs enclosing the lower left separate a picture of a man being served fine food. The picture does not punctuate "Aesops." The text side has "Printed in Germany." It introduces a long description of its product with this question: "Do You Use the Cracker Stamped 'Stapler'? If not, why not?" It is quite surprising that I found two cards independently--and within a couple of months of each other--advertising the same local firm in Trenton.