Chicorée Extra Double-Cards Daniel Voelcker-Coumes à Bayon, 1901

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2018.0469

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

1901

Extent

10 Cards : Ten double-cards presenting La Fontaine's fables. Léopold Verger & Cie, Paris.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

These cards are doubly curious because they reproduce single cards in the series identified in this collection as "Leopold Verger Small." Thus three cards here pick up one image from that series and add a second image of their own. That is the trick in this presentation: two phases give the story of the fable. The verso of the each card is identical.

Death and the Unhappy Man

MM

The Coach and the Fly

OR

The Horse and the Stag

FK

The Two Doves

DLS

The Eye of the Master

The Lion and the Mosquito

The Two Mules

Horse and Wolf

Little Fish and Fisherman

DW

Immediate Source of Acquisition

M. Batchelor, Ash, UK, through eBay, August, '13. Four more cards advertising Maison Daspre for $7 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.