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1930? 9 colored La Fontaine prints signed "Starling." 100 Francs each at a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99.

Each 9.5" x 6.2" print has an image on the left, including the title of La Fontaine's fable. On the right is the text. Each is…

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1995 5 notecards, made to match their appropriate envelopes by placing an enlarged image of the fable stamp at the left edge of the landscape paper. Almost 4" x 8¼". The stamps in question are the Fables of La Fontaine stamps issued on June 24, 1995.…

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1995 6 small envelopes, each featuring in its upper left corner a cartoon in the same style as the stamp but showing a different scene. Its stamp is then from the same fable in the series of La Fontaine fable stamps issued on June 24, 1995. All are…

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1989 Stained glass window: Ulm bear with two travellers. Done by Bob Engel for Christmas, 1989.

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1986 Stained glass window: Ulm fox leaping for grapes. Done by Bob Engel for Christmas, 1986.

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1990? Speed Bump cartoon by Dave Coverly. "Aesop's Brother, Asap." Taken off the web.

Good exploitation of a pun and the common knowledge that Aesop was in the ancient Western world. Well done!

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2021 Souvenir Sheet from Hungary of four stamps commemorating the 400th birth anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine. $4.99 from Siew Lee Wong through Ebay, May, '22.

The artist here offers five strong and even idiosyncratic interpretations of well…

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