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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.

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This cake tin suggests that it would make a good gift. It features four Epinal fable scenes: FC on the top and "The Fox and the Goat," "The Fox and the Cock," and "The Sick Lion and the Fox" around the sides. The good exemplar is in very good condition. The poorer exemplar shows plenty of rust and a bad long scratch across the top. Dany tells me that it is hard to find.

Abstract Ms. Moncourt had urged me to come back in a few days, saying that she had some things from her childhood that she could offer me. What a happy surprise to be offered this tin! A number of stories are illustrated in cartoon fashion: The Fox and the Crow , The Milkmaid , "The Heron," The Wolf and the Lamb , The Ox and the Frog , The Grasshopper and the Ant , The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse , and The Tortoise and the Hare . I was happy then to see the tin show up on Ebay, and Jim of "Jim's...

Abstract Ms. Moncourt had urged me to come back in a few days, saying that she had some things from her childhood that she could offer me. What a happy surprise to be offered this tin! A number of stories are illustrated in cartoon fashion: FC, MM, "The Heron," WL, OF, GA, TMCM, and TH. I was happy then to see the tin show up on Ebay, and Jim of "Jim's Things" could not believe that I had found his tin! Smart sellers and auctions probably tend to end up around the same place. I notice that this price...

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This cake tin suggests that it would make a good gift. It features four Epinal fable scenes: FC on the top and "The Fox and the Goat," "The Fox and the Cock," and "The Sick Lion and the Fox" around the sides. The good exemplar is in very good condition. The poorer exemplar shows plenty of rust and a bad long scratch across the top. Dany tells me that it is hard to find.

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This canister is in fair condition. The cover presents the basic scene of cicada singing and ant working. The small side panels show each doing his respective thing. On one large side panel, the cicada dances while the ant carries an egg as big as his own body. On the other, the shivering cicada comes to the ant, whose negative feelings are as bristly as the broom he carries.

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...

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This cookie tin is highly corroded and so hard to read. The cover picture, first in the series, has a mother crow visiting a dairy to find food for her children. She then flies into a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak. The fifth and final scene may be the most dramatic: the fox runs away as the fox flies away. The art is nicely done, even through the darkening and discoloration.