Iminacre Plastic Button Cards, bulk: 1960 - 1969

Collection — Box: CFC Artifact Box 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

Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969

Extent

From the Collection: 800 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

1960? Cards of Iminacre buttons using La Fontaine fable designs. About 2" x 3⅛". Four to six buttons per card. $2.32 per card from Lisagora, Machecoul, France, March, '19. €5 each for GA and an extra of LM from Jerome David, Beauvais, France, through Ebay, Nov., '20. $5.58 for TT with peacock blue buttons from Skopadiddle Vintage through Etsy, Nov., '20 . Six sets, including "Horse and Ass," for $20 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept. 20. Also included: extras of LM; TT; "Fox and Goat"; "Monkey and Cat"; and "Puss in Boots." Three sets from "la fee chinette, on Ebay, for €3.99 each, including FS and extra copies of "Horse and Ass" and "Monkey and Cat."

The surprise with these button cards is that the fable illustration – clearly taken from one of La Fontaine's most beloved fables in each case – has nothing perceptible to do with the buttons! The fable is never named. The verso provides either the lot number, always beginning with "975-22" but then varying for two further digits, or these lot numbers plus a short promotion of the buttons in French and English. While cataloguing these seven cards received from Moriceau Esméralda, I found others at two different places on the web and of course several already purchased by other collectors! The hunt will continue.