"Le Savetier et le Financier", 1900

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0480.7-8

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

2 Cards : One colored French card presenting a scene from La Fontaine's fable "Le Savetier et le Financier" with an inserted label and medallion portrait of the author. The verso advertises Moka du Docteur & Chicorée du Docteur of Joseph Lervilles. ; 3" x 4¼"

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The Lervilles verso is similar to but not identical with the verso of a card I have listed under "1890?" picturing FC and offering a signature of La Fontaine. This card is also slightly larger. Whatever the printing technique used on this card, it makes a scanner go crazy at high resolutions. Weird things come out of the attempt to scan it!

Immediate Source of Acquisition

15 Francs from Annick Tilly at the Clignancourt flea market, August, '01. Extra copy advertising "A la belle Jardinière" chicoree offered by C. Beriot, Lille, for €3 from François Magnin, Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.