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Aesop's Fables > Aesop's Artifacts > Boxes > Supersized Matchboxes

Supersized Matchboxes

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Oversized Matchboxes

 

2010?    Four supersized (4 ¼" X 11 ½" X 1") matchboxes featuring details of Fraipont's 1888 illustrations along with La Fontaine's text for FS, WL, FG, and MM.  Made in France.  Allumettes Seita.  $11.93 apiece from Desallumettesenveuxtu on eBay, August, '15. 

 

 

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