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Box CFC Buttons Box 1

 Container

Contains 63 Results:

Iminacre Plastic Button Cards from La Fee Chinette, bulk: 1960 - 1969

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0538.1-3
Abstract 1960? Cards of Iminacre buttons using La Fontaine fable designs. About 2" x 3⅛". Four to six buttons per card. $2.32 per card from Lisagora, Machecoul, France, March, '19. €5 each for GA and an extra of LM from Jerome David, Beauvais, France, through Ebay, Nov., '20. $5.58 for TT with peacock blue buttons from Skopadiddle Vintage through Etsy, Nov., '20 . Six sets, including "Horse and Ass," for $20 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept. 20. Also included: extras of LM;...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969

Fighting Cocks and the Eagle Button, 1900 - 1980

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0559
Abstract

Gold and black button depicting an eagle looking down from a branch watching two chickens.

Dates: Issued: 1900 - 1980

The Stag with Antlers Caught in a Tree Button, 1900

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0588.1
Abstract

I am cataloguing this unusual button almost eleven years after we received it. One could say that I fell behind in cataloguing! The fable of the stag looking into the water and admiring his antlers but despising his legs, is frequently retold, but I think I have never before seen it on a button. Surprises keep coming!

Dates: 1900

Fox and Grapes brass button with jewels

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2019.0137.2
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...
Dates: 1996

Stag and Eagle dark brass button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2019.0137.3
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...
Dates: 1996

The Frog Who Desired a King Button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0561.1
Abstract

Crane and frog bronze button, there are etches in the button surrounding the crane that come together to create organic figures like flowers.

Dates: 1996

Fox and Grapes Button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0563.1
Abstract

This button depicts a fox climbing through a trellis in order to get to a clump of grapes.

Dates: 1996

The Peasant from the Danube

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0564.1
Abstract

Button with a scene depicting a man with a staff looking over at an ocean from a cliff.

Dates: 1996

Fox and Stork button, 1890

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2019.0198.1.17
Abstract

Here a brass-colored band seems to be folded over the hook-bearing celluloid back and the bronze and black metallic front of the button. The stork has its long beak in the vase while the fox looks on. Apparently in the same set as the two 3/4" FS buttons. Apparently #16 on Plate 152 in BBB.

Dates: 1890

Fox and Stork Button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0565.1
Abstract

Button with a scene depicting the fox and stork fable when the stork iis drinking from the vase.

Dates: 1996

Fox and Grapes Button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2018.0238.1
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...
Dates: 1996

Fox and Stork Button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2018.0255.1
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...
Dates: 1996

Fox and Crow Button

 Item — Box: CFC Buttons Box 1
Identifier: CFC2018.0256.1
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...
Dates: 1996