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2013? Faboland Nordia Single-Character Fèves Complete Set of 5 Pairs. Aff 110.05. €14 from Faboland through Ebay, Sept., '20.

This set of fable fèves is unusual for offering only single characters paired with each other for five fables: FC, LM,…

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1920? Eleven plates -- including three extras -- illustrating fables of La Fontaine. 7½" white plate bordered in a green floral pattern with a central design in two or three of four colors: green, blue, brown, and tan. The back gives the fable title…

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1910? Five Piedmont Cigarette Fairy Tale Stamps. Reynard the Fox #2 (with an extra), #3, #4, and #5. Sixty in series. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Printed in Germany. Berlin and NY: Wentz and Co. $10 for an envelope of many in the series from Clipper…

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2012 Fairy Tales from Around the World. DVD? Phoenix E-Books UK. 206 books, each with its own pdf showing each book from cover to cover. Plus two further sections on the books of various colors by Andrew Lang and a set of Japanese tales. …

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2020 Farmhouse Greetings 2021 Calendar: Animals Inspired by Aesop’s Fables. 8½” x 11”. Twelve blockprints created by Linda Cook DeVona. $12 from Farmhouse Greetings through Etsy, Dec., ’20.

This set of blockprints lives up to its billing:…

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2001 FDC Envelope with the four pairs of cancelled stamps and a design on the front of the envelope. The verso of the envelope reads " The First Day Cover carries an artist's impression of Vishnu Sarman, the author of Panchatantra telling the…

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2021 FDC Envelope from the Hungarian Post Office featuring the four commemorative stamps and a cameo of La Fontaine. $13.77 from empirefondation1965 through Ebay, Dec., '21.

The cancellation mark is a crow with a piece of cheese in his beak. …

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I also learned that there is a "Postal Service Bulletin" presenting this series of stamps. It was offered together with an FDC envelope of the three stamps by csts-trade on eBay, July, '18. It puts the parable teller underneath a tree with a book…

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1995 One FDC from Albania featuring "Zhan de la Fonten." Postmarked August 20, 1995. The three full-color stamps used for posting the letter display each a variety of fable characters. Even the postmark is peculiar to La Fontaine. $20.50 John…

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1961 FDC Monaco 48411: Envelope featuring a "Respect for Life" stamp and a cartoon of the grasshopper and ant in black, blue, and red. $3 from Topical Covers, Netherlands, through Ebay, Nov., '20.

Once again, the artist has fun with the well…
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