Vintage French Educational Fable Game, 1950

Item — Box: CFC Artifact Box 16

Identifier: CFC2021.0583.1-3

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

1950

Extent

8.5" Linear Feet ; 8.5" x 6.25" x 1"

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

1950? Vintage French Educational Fable Game. Match each of the fables pictured on eight cards with one of the 24 morals printed on an adjoining stub. Three fables per card. One replacement stub is hand-created.

Each stub has a notch that fits with the open space next to its fable. The stub also provides an extra clue in that the color of the extended portion matches only the color needed in the card’s notch. The “moral” comes at different places in the text of different fables. Well done! A great find!