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Posted 12/04/2020   1:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is the 1d value (Sc #24) from Ascension's KGV definitive series of July 2, 1934.


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The Tortoise and the Hare, is one of Aesop's Fables and later, fable by La Fontaine's which is a version of the former.

The Aesop's version fable tells the story of a race between a tortoise and a hare. The hare is very confident of winning, so it stops during the race and falls asleep. The tortoise continues to move very slowly but without stopping and finally it wins the race. The moral lesson of the story is that you can be more successful by doing things slowly and steadily than by acting quickly and carelessly.

Syria - 1976:

France - 1995:

Monaco - 1971:

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The Tortoise and the Hare, is one of Aesop's Fables and later, fable by La Fontaine's which is a version of the former.

The Aesop's version fable tells the story of a race between a tortoise and a hare. The hare is very confident of winning, so it stops during the race and falls asleep. The tortoise continues to move very slowly but without stopping and finally it wins the race. The moral lesson of the story is that you can be more successful by doing things slowly and steadily than by acting quickly and carelessly.

Here is one more I forgot - this one from Hungary 1987:
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"Byeol Ju Bu Jeon" is a Korean folktale from the 7th century. The tale resembles Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" in that both tales feature a turtle and rabbit as the principal characters, but the setting, morals, and political implications of the stories are quite different.

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As the story goes, the Dragon King, the king of the sea, was deathly ill. His subjects suggest that a hare's liver could cure him, yet none of them are brave enough to venture onto land to get the liver— that is, until the turtle volunteers. Once ashore, the turtle finds a rabbit and persuades him to visit the underwater kingdom, where great riches, beauty, and honor—the turtle claims—await. The rabbit agrees.

Back underwater, in the audience of the Dragon King, the rabbit is restrained and regretfully informed that he must sacrifice his liver (and his life) to save the king. The rabbit cleverly tells them that he would be honored to help save the king's life but has left his liver in the woods.

Rabbits, he tells the king, knowing the value of their livers, hide them aboveground in secret places. The hare says that he would be honored to retrieve it and give it over to the king if the king would send the turtle to escort him. The Dragon King is won over by this cavalier flattery and sends them back. Once on shore, the rabbit runs safely away from the turtle, telling him that they will never get his liver, that they were fools to believe him, and that the Dragon King will just have to die. Then he vanishes.

Source with interpretations: http://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Cult...cleId=120938

This set, shows the legend, was issued by North Korea on December 25, 1982:




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The Tortoise and the Hare, France - 1978
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Turtle in African legends, issued by the Central African Republic in 1971:

The tortoise, the elephant and the hippopotamus:

The tortoise and the cuckoo:

Issued as part of this great set:
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Leatherback Turtles - Israel, 2016:




Issued in a sheet contains two sets:
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How death came to the world? African legend which I have no information about it, maybe a version of "The Tortoise and the Hare" fable - Botswana, 2012:
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Here is a group of turtle stamps, sorry if already posted in this thread:









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On September 28, 2018 Honduras issued a three-value set of domestic animals (pets) stamps as its America (UPAEP) issue. The 30 lempira value of set depicts a pond slider (Trachemys scripta), a turtle which is endemic to the southeastern USA, but which has been introduced to many parts of the world through the pet trade. These turtles can live up to 40 years in captivity, but they are frequently released into the wild when they become large/adults.

From animaldiversity.org, "Slider turtles are a prolific invasive species, and there is more concern surrounding their presence in many locations rather than their threatened status."

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Mayotte
Sea Turtle
January 13, 1998
The stamp depicts Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas).
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Croatia
Sea Life
March 22, 2021
Set of three, one stamp depicts Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta).
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Jersey
Endangered Wildlife
March 11, 2021
Set of six, one stamp depicts Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta).
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Republic of Korea
Protected Sea Life – Turtles
May 31, 2021
This stamp set features Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta), Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), and Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas).
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Cayman Islands
Wildlife
June 16, 1981
Set of three, one stamp depicts Freshwater Turtle (Chrysemys sp.).
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