WMF Trade Cards, 1900

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0471

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

1900

Extent

13 Cards : 12 fable-illustrated stock trade cards lithographed by WMF and included in a packet listing all twelve. Each card has in subtle red ink along its edges both "S.R. de la Perle" and "Lith. Bognard Jne" where the last two letters are unclear. Might they stand for "Jeune"? ; 2½" x 4".

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This full set is especially helpful to me because four similar sets are all partial. This group sets the standard at twelve and lists them on the wrapper's back. The multi-colored pictures here have a gray background. The picture-side of the card is without print. The text-side, landscape in orientation like all of the pictures, presents only a title and a text. The paper used is thin, and picture and text have often lost their lamination and have become two pieces of paper. "WMF" appears at the lower left of the wrapper.

"Crow and Eagle"

"Dog with Dinner"

FC

FM

FS

"The Hares and the Frogs"

"The Heron and the Snail"

LM

TH

"The Two Dogs"

"The Two Goats"

WL