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2022 Five sets of needlepoint pattern pages for finished work displaying fables of La Fontaine. €6.60 each from opointdecroix on Ebay, July, '22.

I thought I would be receiving paper through the mail. What I received was rather a large set of…

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1995 One folded card, about 4" x 6", using an image of La Fontaine with animals by Odette Baillais. Editions Philatéliques, Nice. Distribué par SODOP. $8 from Loic Marchat, Villeurbane, France, April, '04.

After Baillais' composition on the cover,…

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1887 Newspaper page of 12 cartoon caricatures including one parodying FC. €6.99 from lycoum2 through Ebay, Sept., '21.

John Bull as the fox holds out his hat to catch Egypt as the Sultan is ready to let it drop. I note the unusual "Corbiau" and…

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1996 Complete set of 10 Nex fable fèves. Matching pairs. €32 from Monique Gottero, Aulon, France, through Ebay, Dec., '21.

The ten disks come with five having a notch to fit with a fully circular disk, and thus the five famous pairs align. …

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2008 Ngu Ngon La Fontaine. DVD presentation of 26 fables of La Fontaine in Vietnamese cartoons. $1.99 from Dvany or VanaMall.com, Golden Grove, CA, on Ebay, Oct., '07.

There seem to be two portions to each fable here: a short narration of the…

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1972 On November 23, 1972, the Republic of Niger issued a set of air mail stamps in honor of Jean de la Fontaine, including the three specimens pictured below, each on a first day cover and each in a numbered series of 2000. $30 from Alexandre…

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1972 Two imperforate stamp proofs for stamps to be issued by the Republic of Niger. Each is marked "Imprimerie des Timbres-Poste - France." 25F and 50F, respectively. In honor of Jean de La Fontaine. $10.75 from Collect+, The Hague, The Netherlands,…

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1972 On November 23, 1972, the Republic of Niger issued a set of air mail stamps in honor of Jean de la Fontaine, including the three imperforate proof specimens pictured below. $5.95 from Roger Lemieux, Fort Worth, TX, through eBay, August,…

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1980? Nine champagne muselet caps from Veuve Cheurlin, picturing each a fable of La Fontaine. $35 for the set of nine from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., ‘20

Now here is something new – and a new group of collectors, known in…

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2020? Numbered set of Six champagne muselet caps marked "Champagne." Each of the six has a number. €6 from Alain Jouglet at "Les Capsules d'Alain," Loivre. , France, Dec., '20.

I had presumed that the first set I found just recently was…
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