French Covers
- Address Labels
- Art Book Offprints
- Articles Presenting La Fontaine's Works
- Bookmark Puzzles
- Box of Chinese characters with pen and booklet
- Brain-Teaser Puzzles: Fables de Nestlé
- Broadsides
- Broadside Reproductions of La Fontaine
- Broadside Reproductions of Florian
- Brochures
- Calendars
- Cartoons
- Classroom Scroll Hangings
- Decals
- Die Cut Papers
- Dioramas
- Dust Jackets
- Encyclopedia Articles
- Engravings
- Envelopes
- Etchings
- Exhibit Guide Pages
- Fable Pages: Der Wolf und das Schaf
- Fairy Tale Stamps
- Flip-Overs
- Gift Certificates
- Christmas Tree Garlands
- Handbills
- Hangable Pictures
- Hidden Pictures/Devinettes
- Leaflets
- Linocut Print
- Lithographs
- Lottery Tickets
- Magazines
- Magazine Articles
- Magic Pads
- Maps
- Menus
- Minute Biographies
- Musical Scores
- Notebooks
- Paper Pads
- Painting Reproductions
- Photographs of Art Works
- Other Photographs
- Picture Story Albums
- Pictures to Color
- Plate Reproductions
- Poems Responding to La Fontaine
- Popper Guns
- Posters
- Prints
- Product Labels
- Receipts
- Separated Book Pages
- Sewing Patterns and Designs
- Fables in Silhouette
- Souvenir Currency
- Aesop's Fable Tags and Frames Scrapbook Paper
- Stickers
- Teacher Literature Units
- Tissage Imagé: Paper Puzzles for Weaving Together
- Woodcuts
each giving the title and an illustration for a fable of either Jean de La Fontaine or Florian. The total set may number fifty. Fifty were announced, but so far I have found only these thirty. There are also two larger 2 3/8" x 2¾" labels, apparently for a package of ten of the packets that would use the sixteen individual labels. AU $10 from Dave Cox, Drysdale, Australia, through Ebay, Sept., '00. Several extras and two new labels from Dany Wolfs, Roesalare, Belgium, August, '00. Four extras and twelve new labels for $14.19 from Jim Swiftway through eBay, April, '04.
These are lovely designs, much different in their simplicity from the simple Russian matchbox covers. As one can see from actual French matchboxes, a picture design was used on only one of the two large sides, by contrast with the double images for Russian matchboxes. Do not miss the excellent use of color in SS and of form in "La Jeune Poule et le Renard" and FG. There are excellent facial expressions on the animals in "Le Rat et l'Huitre," LM, WL, and "Le Singe qui Montre la Lanterne Magique." It is a special pleasure to find such loveliness in simple things!
You can also view the French matchboxes that use these covers.
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L'Ane Chargé d'Éponges | L'Ane Vetu de la Peu de Lion |
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La Belette Entrée dans un Grenier | Les Deux Pigeons |
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Les Deux Rats, le Renard et l'Oeuf | Le Lion et le Moucheron |
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Les Grenouilles Qui Demandent un Roi | La Jeune Poule et le Renard |
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Le Rat et l'Huitre | Le Sanglier et les Rossignols |
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La Tortue et les Deux Canards | |
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L'Ane et le Petit Chien | La Carpe et les Carpillons | Le Chat, la Belette et le Petit Lapin |
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La Cigale et la Fourmi | Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau | Le Corbeau et le Renard |
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Le Héron | Le Lièvre et la Tortue | Le Lion et le Rat |
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Le Loup et l'Agneau | Le Loup et le Chien | Le Loup et la Cicogne |
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La Poule aux Oeufs d'Or | Le Rat de Ville et le Rat des Champs | Le Renard et le Bouc |
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Le Renard et la Cigogne | Le Renard et les Raisins | Le Singe qui Montre la Lanterne Magique |
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La Taupe et les Lapins | ||
