Kempenaar Oriental French - Series C, 1900

Item — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0451.3.1-21

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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

21 Cards : 21 out of a series of 24 cards presenting fables of La Fontaine in an oriental style with French text of the fable on the verso. "Elixir De Kempenaar." Druk J.E. Goossens, Brussels.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

These cards, except for the change of language, are like the Kempenaar Dutch oriental cards of Series C. Like them, these cards are smaller versions in the style of the Bon Marché Oriental series. While those Bon Marché cards are 4" x 5½", these are 3¼" x 4 7/8". The cards are numbered "1" through "24" in "Serié C" on the bottom of the verso. "Elixir De Kempenaar" is on both sides of each card. The verso of each also has "Imp. J.E. Goossens, Brussels," and the text of its fable. These cards add an oval in the lower left or right of the picture side: apparently a man with a pitchfork and a seated woman are both drinking Elixir De Kempenaar. The border of each card has its own intricate oriental pattern. Now to find the last three in the series!

1: DLS

2: Stag in the Vineyard

3: Oyster & Litigants

(4: Horse & Stag)

5: FWT

6: Angler & Small Fish

7: Two Bulls & Frogs

(8: Old Man & Ass)

9: AD

10: Horse & Ass

11: Saying of Socrates

12: Camel & Flotsam

13: Fox & Bust

14: Hunter & Lion

15: DS

16: Coach & Fly

17: Stag & Pool

18: Two Friends

19: BC

20: LM

21: TB

22: Thieves & Ass

23: Two Mules

(24: Death & Unhappy Man)