Cigar Labels
1960? Complete set of 24 paper cigar bands from Verellen, Vieille Anvers in mint condition. 1 3/16" x 7/8". The bands are two shades of red, and frames for the colored illustrations are gold. The subjects are animal stories including fables. $18.55 from Andre Prenger at The Holland America Cigar Band and Label Store, Amsterdam, through Ebay, July, '99.
Since these fables came shortly before I left Omaha for a year away, they have eluded cataloguing and scanning. Now at last three years later I can offer them. The graphic work is done in such a small space that it is hard to do the subjects justice. And so I offer here actual size presentations on this page with an enlargement each. For me it is already fun to know that someone used fables as subjects on cigar bands! The best of the group are FG by Lessing (7), "Quartet" (8), "The Wolf with the Frozen Tail" (10), "Chantecleer" (16), "The Bees and the Bumblebees" (18), and TT (20). The verso has numbers, authors, and titles in Dutch and French.
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1. The Contest between the Elephant and the Chameleon (from Africa) | 2. Monkeys as Gardeners (Hitopadesa) | 3. Monkeys as Gardeners (Hitopadesa) |
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4. The Tiger Who Saw Right Through People (James Thurber) | 5. The Donkey, the Ox and the Farmer (1001 nights) | 6. The Forest Wolf and the Coyote (American Indian) |
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7. The Grapes (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) | 8. The Quartet (Ivan Krylov) | 9. Reynard the Fox |
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10. Reynard the Fox | 11. Friendship Without Jealousy (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) | 12. Friendship Without Jealousy (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) |
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13. Different Isle (Jacquetta Hawkes) | 14. The Jumping Contest (Hans Christian Andersen) | 15. Chantecleer (Geoffrey Chaucer) |
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16. Chantecleer (Geoffrey Chaucer) | 17. The Duck Who Tried to Catch the Moon (Leo Tolstoi) | 18. The Bees and the Bumblebees (Phaedrus) |
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19. How the Camel Got the Hump on His Back (Rudyard Kipling) | 20. The Flying Turtle (Bidpai) | 21. The Lion and the Bull (Johann Gottfried von Herder) |
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22. The Blue Jackal (Panchatantra) | 23. The Blue Jackal (Panchatantra) | 24. The Goose (Ivan Krylov) |
Since these fables came shortly before I left Omaha for a year away, they have eluded cataloguing and scanning. Now at last three years later I can offer them. The graphic work is done in such a small space that it is hard to do the subjects justice. And so I offer here actual size presentations on this page with an enlargement each. For me it is already fun to know that someone used fables as subjects on cigar bands! The best of the group are FG by Lessing (7), "Quartet" (8), "The Wolf with the Frozen Tail" (10), "Chantecleer" (16), "The Bees and the Bumblebees" (18), and TT (20). The verso has numbers, authors, and titles in Dutch and French.