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Set of three vintage rusk tins or canisters "The daily fable" 1969

SKU: 671

Dutch rusk canisters "The Daily Fable". 

Set of three vintage Dutch rusk canisters with images of puppets appearing in the popular televisionseries "The Daily Fable". These canisters were distributed during 1969 by 'Bolletje' a baking factory in the Netherlands. 

Dimensions

  • Height: 23 cm. 
  • Diameter: 10,5 cm. 

Fabeltjeskrant (or De Fabeltjeskrant, Dutch for "The Fables Newspaper") is a Dutch children's television series featuring puppetry and stop motion. Created in 1968 by Leen Valkenier and produced by Thijs Chanowski (1st series) and Loek de Levita (2nd series), it ended in 1989 and was broadcast on the Dutch channels NOS, RTL 4 and RTL 8 and on Belgian channel VRT. From 1973 to 1975 it was broadcast also in the United Kingdom, on ITV, with the title The Daily Fable. 

Each episode is based upon fables of Jean de La Fontaine, Aesop, Phaedrus and also by the series' scenographer Leen Valkenier. The main character, the owl "Meneer de Uil", introduces each episode reading a fable to other characters upon a tree. The scene is a forest inhabited by different anthropomorphic paper animals and the first episode was broadcast on 29 September 1968 on NOS. 

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