Booklet enclosing four each of the 1978 Red Cross stamps
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The front cover of this little booklet mixes red, green, brown, and black. The green background may be Paris in La Fontaine's time. There is a cameo bust of La Fontaine in the lower left. The script reads "République Française: Secretariat d'Etat aux Postes et Télécommunications 1978: émission au profit de la Croix-Rouge Française." The center presents a quadrant of four of either stamp postmarked Strassbourg, December 11, 1978. The back page is a monochrome mélange of several fables, perhaps The Fox and the Crow, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Milklmaid, THe Frogs wanting a King, The Tortoise and the Hare and "The Heron." Creating the larger version helped me to discover that both stamps are signed "Andreotto.