French Gold, Full Set, 1880

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0478.1-27

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

1880

Extent

27 Cards : A full set of twelve gold-background cards with La Fontaine scenes and French titles. 2½" x 4". The scenes are again identical with those pictured on cards by Charles Wemple and Martin Kronheim of NY. $35 from Lee Fichtner, South Grafton, MA, through eBay, May, '10. Also 11 of 12 cards picturing La Fontaine fable scenes against a gold background. The scenes are identical with those pictured on cards by Charles Wemple and Martin Kronheim of NY. ; 2½" x 4".

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Several years ago I found a full set of Wemple/Kronheim cards with green backgrounds after struggling to find eight individual cards. They bear no markings besides the fable's name in French. The card lacking from the second set is FM. The gold background invites scratches. Some of the printing here is not exact. The versos are all blank.

Two Goats

Eagle and Crow

FC

Frog and Mouse

Hare and Frogs

LM

FS

TH

The Heron

Dog with His Master's Lunch

Dogs Draining a River

WL