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Insel: Sechs Fabel-Hafte Karten

1990  Set of six cards folded over with empty insides, representing humorous views of La Fontaine’s fables.  Rolf Köhler.  About 4” x 5¾”.    La Fontaine’s text is on the final side of each card.  Die Schöne Insel-Karte.  $5.52 from Buchmarie through ZVAB, Feb., ’25.

Delightful parodies of the fables.  The mouse facing the netted lion has workman’s clothes and a pliers in his hand.  The fox waits for the crow’s cheese to fall into his baseball cap.  Not the grasshopper but the ant appears shivering with a guitar in hand.  The frog sees the ox pictured on the side of a truck, while the real ox looks out the back of the truck.  The old lion is a tennis player having his tail stepped on by a younger ass.  The cock views a small pearl hanging from a young chicken’s breast while an old chicken with large pearl looks on with suspicion.

 

 

 

 

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Lion Grown Old

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