Aesop's Fables: The parrot and the cat

THE PARROT AND THE CAT

A Man once bought a Parrot and gave it the run of his house. It revelled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart's content. The noise disturbed the Cat, who was asleep on the hearthrug. Looking up at the intruder, she said, "Who may you be, and where have you come from?" The Parrot replied, "Your master has just bought me and brought me home with him." "You impudent bird," said the Cat, "how dare you, a newcomer, make a noise like that? Why, I was born here, and have lived here all my life, and yet, if I venture to mew, they throw things at me and chase me all over the place." "Look here, mistress," said the Parrot, "you just hold your tongue. My voice they delight in; but yours—yours is a perfect nuisance."

Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic

The Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic, or STP, is an annual one- and two-day supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon in the United States. The STP "is considered one of the 10 biggest recreational bicycle rides in the country, drawing riders from across the nation and from other nations", and has been operating for more than 25 years. The ride is organized by the Cascade Bicycle Club. It is approximately 200 miles (322 km) in length. Most riders complete the distance in two days; however, about 15% complete the ride in one day.

The first STP took place in 1979 and was a race. The ride has taken place every year since except in 1980 when it was canceled because of the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Vintage poster from 1979

Columbia Bicycle Vintage Poster

Pope Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing company started by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, CT. The company began with the introduction of the "Columbia High Wheeler" bicycle in 1878. Pope bought Pierre Lallement's original patent for the bicycle, and aggressively bought all other bicycle patents he could find, amassing a fortune by restricting the types of bicycles other American manufacturers could make and charging them royalties. He used the latest technologies in his bicycles—inventions such as ball bearings in all moving parts, and hollow steel tubes for the frame, and he spent a great deal of money promoting bicycle clubs, journals, and races. Until 1896, Pope was the leading US producer of bicycles.

link: Official Columbia Bycicle Website
link: All about Columbia Bicycles

Artist: C.M. Coolidge

Year: ca.1895

Player's Cigarette Cards

John Player & Sons, known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer, based in Nottingham, England. It is today a part of the Imperial Tobacco Group.

Player's were one of the first UK tobacco companies to include sets of general interest cards in their packs of cigarettes. One of the first sets, produced is 1893, was 'Castles and Abbeys'. These cards were generally produced in sets of 50 and have since become highly collectable. Other sets produced include 'Footballers' (1926), 'Civil Aircraft' (1935) and 'Motor Cars' (1936).

link: Cigarette Cards - 'Collect-it' Magazine.

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°1 King Parrot

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°3 Many Coloured Parrakeet

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°4 Red & Blue Macaw

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°6 Blue Mountain Lory

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°7 Red-Wing Parrakeet

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°8 Barnard's Parrakeet.jpg

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°9 Military Macaw

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W.D. & H.O. Wills Cigarette cards

W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco.

In 1887, Wills were one of the first UK tobacco companies to include advertising cards in their packs of cigarettes, but it wasn't until 1895 did they produce their first general interest set of cards ('Ships and Sailors'). Other Wills sets include 'Aviation' (1910), 'British Butterflies' (1927), 'Garden Flowers' (1933) and 'Air Raid Precautions' (1938).

link: Cigarette Cards - 'Collect-it' Magazine.

Set of 12 postcard sized cards issued in 1929 - N°10 Nigeria

Set of 12 postcard sized cards issued in 1929 - N°2 British Guiana

Series: Birds of Australia - N°68

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3891025-s1

Series: Birds of Australia - N°62

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3891025-s1

Series: Birds of Australia - N°66

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3891025-s1

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Tobler Cards: Series 8 - Parrots

Theodor Tobler (1876-1941), who gave his name to one of the most famous chocolates in the world (Toblerone), came from a humble background. His parents arrived in Bern in 1867 from the rural eastern canton of Appenzell, and his father, Jean Tobler (1830-1905) opened a chocolate shop. Jean founded his own factory in 1899, and Theodor took it over in 1900.

Source: http://sammelbilderalben.ch/toblerHaupt.html

1903: Album for Picture Cards (English and French version)

Series 8: Parrots, ca. 1900

Collectable cards he included with chocolate

Series 8: Parrots, ca. 1900

Collectable cards he included with chocolate

Series 8: Parrots, ca. 1900

Collectable cards he included with chocolate

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Back of a little picture

Liebig Beef Extract

Liebig's Extract of Meat is a historical product. It was a thick, dark, syrupy beef extract paste sold in glass bottles, and later in tins as well. It gained popularity first as a food for the poor, and then also as an ingredient in middle-class kitchens. It was also called "Liebig's Fleisch Extract" ("Fleisch" meaning "meat" in German), Fleisch Extract Syrup, or Fluid Beef.

source: http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/liebigsextractofmeat


Justus von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. He developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts, and founded a company, Liebig Extract of Meat Company, that later trademarked the Oxo brand beef bouillon cube.

Liebig produced many illustrated advertising products: table cards, menucards, children games, free trade card sets, calendars, posters, posterstamps, paper and other toys. These were often in the form of trading card sets with stories, historical tidbits, geographic tidbits, and so on. The sets usually consisted of six cards, one card included per product sale. Many famous artists were contacted to design those series of cards, which were first produced using true lithography, then litho chromo, chromolithography and finally offset printing. The cards remain popular with collectors and are often collected in albums.

Liebig Beef Extract "Exotic Birds & Flowers" Italian issue, 1897

Liebig Beef Extract "Exotic Birds & Flowers" Italian issue, 1897

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Minnie's pet parrot - Children Book (1864)

Herriette Newell Woods was born on August 19, 1815 in Andover, Massachusetts. She began writing at an early age and had her first story published at age 10. Baker attended Abbot Female Seminary. She married Abijah Richardson Baker on October, 1 1835. Baker's first books were published in 1860 under the pseudonym Mrs. Madeline Leslie. It is believed that she went on to write anonymously or pseudonymously over 200 books. One of her other common pseudonym was Aunt Hattie. Many of her books had a religious or moral theme and her style was considered very true to life, with well drawn characters. She died in New York on April 26, 1893.

Minnie's Pet Parrot - 1864

Author: Mrs. Madeline Leslie (1815-1893)
Published: 1864
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/minniespetparrot00lesliala 
Read the story online: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26617/26617-h/26617-h.htm
Download Pdf: http://www.archive.org/download/minniespetparrot00lesliala/minniespetparrot00lesliala.pdf
Summary:  The object of these little books is not so much to give full, scientific information with regard to the animals of which they treat, as to bring before the child such facts concerning them as shall interest him in their history, awaken a desire to know more of the particular traits of each, and especially lead him to be kind to them as a part of God’s creation.

  

Phineas the Parrot

Phineas the Parrot one-page filler

from Happy Comics #34 July 1943

source: Cartoon Snap

ASCII-Art parrots

source: http://www.ascii-art.de/

source: http://www.koolkorner.info/ASCII/

source: www.skye4birds.com/ascii.htm