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Fables De LA Fontaine

 
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Posted 01/15/2017   12:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Sonya Grace to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Looking for the engraver for a series of stamps for Fables de la Fontaine? Any idea where I may find these?
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Posted 01/15/2017   4:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Possibly search France Philatelic Catalogue 1995
It may offer the engravers? designers name.
Good Luck.

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Edited by rod222 - 01/15/2017 4:58 pm
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According to Maury...the designers are Claudine and Roland Sabbatier....and the stamps were produced by heliograveur.
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Claude Haley (1923 - 1988) engraved the Fables of the Jean de la Fontaine stamp set issued by Dahomey on August 28, 1972.


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Posted 08/09/2025   2:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add LaoPhil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, designed and engraved by Claude Durrens and issued by Niger on November 23, 1972:

- The Fox and the Crow
- The Lion and the Rat
- The Monkey and the Leopard:


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The 350th Anniversary of the birth of Jean de la Fontaine, designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, Monaco, 1972.
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Fables by Jean de la Fontaine, designed and engraved by Claude Andréotto, France, 1978.

- The hare and the tortoise
- The town mouse and country mouse
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