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1930 Brown and Bigelow Calendar Series

1929    (Aesop's) Fablegram Series.  Twelve monthly calendars for 1930 featuring maxims and Milo Winter illustrations.  4¾" x 10".  St. Paul, MN, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario:  Brown & Bigelow.  $100 from bisboutique on Ebay, May, '24.

These are colorful presentations of animal scenes with aphorisms drawn from or like those of Aesop.  The illustrations are true Milo Winter, often quite cute and often presenting a fable in different characters and circumstances from the usual.  Brown and Bigelow styles themselves as "Specialists in Direct Mail Advertising."  Aesop is acknowledged in this set only on the introduction card.  One wonders if the card belonged to a different series.  Might there have been a first series of Aesop's Fablegrams that was followed by a series of "clever animal scenes with pithy sayings."

 

 

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