"La Bonne Cafetière.", 1890

Item — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0480.5

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

1890

Extent

1 Cards : One colored French card advertising "La Bonne Cafetière." Pictured is La Fontaine's "L'Avare qui a perdu son Tresor." ; Cropped to 3 7/8" x almost 2¾"

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The card seems to have all the earmarks of the set I have labeled "L'Agence Général Standard/Delorme-Gauthier." It seizes a dramatic human moment, for example, and uses block letters. It does not, however, place the block letters in a circle or in an unusual place on the picture. The verso is blank.