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Gien Colored Plates

1920? Eight cream-colored plates with colored designs. Each plate reads "Fables de LaFontaine" at its top, with the individual fable title at the bottom.  Each back reads "Porcelaine opaque de Gien." One for £2.99 from jersey-wonders through Ebay, Feb., '06.  Others for €200 from entrepot*d on Ebay, Jan., '21.

I was sure that we had some of the plates in this series; it turns out that we have plates from at least four other series, but not from this series.  We have a similar but smaller plate for hanging depicting TT.  I picked up from the kind seller that the plates have numbers, though I could not find them at first on the plates themselves.  We have, from what seems to be a set of 12:

#3: "Crow and Eagle"
#4: BF
#5: "Fox and Goat in a Well"  
#7: FC
#8: FK
#9: OF
#10: "Rabbits and Frogs"
#11: WL


Ebay.fr has revealed to me that #6 is CJ.  From our other holdings, it seems that TT is #12.  The other two (#1 and #2) seem to be FS and BC.

3. The Crow Wanting to Be an Eagle

4. BF

5. The Fox and Goat in a Well

7. FC

8. FK

9. OF

10. The Rabbit and the Frogs

 

11. WL