Fables Jean de la Fontaine, Bubble Gum Tin, 1970

Item — Box: CFC Cans and Tins Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0130.1

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

1970

Extent

1 Container : Belgian Fablio bubble gum tin. "Fables de Jean de la Fontaine." ; 10" x 6½" x 2½" high

Language of Materials

Dutch; Flemish

Additional Description

Abstract

The cover features an opening book with "Fables de Jean de la Fontaine" on the cover and a small figure with something in his hand. Inside the front cover one finds "fablio Bubble Gum Milou" and on the rim "Milou--Bubble Gum--Bobbie." Around the sides are apparently colored stills from an animated cartoon alternating with black-and-red cartoon figures. Several of the images are of frogs. Good condition. Dany lists this item as a biscuit tin.