Huntington Pianos, 1885

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0449

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

1885

Extent

8 Cards : 8 colored cards (apparently from a series of 8) used for Huntington Pianos with factories in Shelton, CT. "32" in the lower left of each card's picture.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Individual cards may be identical with those from a set for McPhail Pianos. They share the "32" on the front of each card. They also seem to share the unusual characteristic of having only the fable text and the company name and place on the verso of each card. They seem otherwise to be the same as the various cards I have listed under J.P. Coats. The set includes:

The Swan and the Cook The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle CP FC GGE LM OF TH

Unfortunately, none of them presents a new mirror-opposite of the cards I already have. For those see the page presenting the whole set under the name Coats.