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The day after

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This is a 3 piece illusion desk toy. Handmade and handpainted It is based on the Twelve-Thirteen riddle. If we change the two top parts positions, 13 plague doctors become 12. Similar toy: Summer supper Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor

The Fox and the Grapes

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Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked ‘Oh, you aren’t even ripe yet! I don’t need any sour grapes.’ People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain … Read more

The Fox and the Crow

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The Fox and the Crow is one of Aesop’s Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index. There are early Latin and Greek versions and the fable may even have been portrayed on an ancient Greek vase.[1] The story is used as a warning against listening to flattery. The Fox & the Crow fable One bright … Read more

The Nightingale

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The Nightingale mobile toy, by Roggeri Joffe Toymakers. Daniela Handpainted this mobile toy she was inspired by the Nightingale story and the Luscinia bird. The Emperor of China learns that one of the most beautiful things in his empire is the song of the nightingale. When he orders the nightingale brought to him, a kitchen … Read more

Don Quijote

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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha Small Version Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see … Read more

Spider

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The spider, a factory worker, made his beautiful and perfect dodecagonal canvases. One day the boss told him to make a square canvas. With the six pieces that compose his web help him make a square one. Il ragno, operaio in una fabbrica, faceva le sue belle tele dodecagonali perfette fin che un giorno il … Read more