Romania
1965 Set of 6 Romanian postage stamps. “Fables and Fairy Tales.” Issued July 21, 1965. 20 Bani, 40, Bani, 55 Bani, 1 Leu, 1.35 Lei, and 2 Lei. Ministerul Transporturilor si Telecomunicatiilor. from Maria Marcu, Roman, NT, Romania.
Beautiful stamps. I am hard pressed to see a fable in my sense among these six, but I do notice a wolf with a sheepskin. Pages in Romanian, French, and English. The text says that there are Two fables from Grigore Alexandrescu “Le loup moraliste” and “Le boef et le veau.” I keep this in the collection in case I am missing something. Maybe a future fable inquirer will find fables here.
1992-1997: Romanian Wine Festival Mail Cancellations. 5 envelopes from successive wine festivals beginning in 1992. $13.90 from Costan Nicolae, Luogoj, Romania, through Ebay, May, ’06.
The first year’s cancellation stamp does not feature the fox and the grapes. Successive cancelations do in 1994 (two of them); 1996, and 1997. The designs become more elaborate and colorful. Do these people see an Aesopic connection between the fox and the grapes?
2009 Four envelopes featuring stamps of Jean de La Fontaine, his Paris home, a tortoise, and a hare. April 13, '09. Addressed to Constantin Popescu, Rm. Valcea, Romania. From Constantin Popescu, May, '09.
One notices the popularity of TH. There are three cancellation seals. They feature TH, FC, and GA, respectively. The seals, stamps, and envelopes are nicely correlated. I am surprised to see La Fontaine's Paris home featured rather than his home in Chateau-Thierry. "Luna Padurii" seems to mean "Forest Moon." Occurrences on the web seem to indicate that it lasts from March 15 to April 15. Offhand, it is hard for me to see the connection with La Fontaine.
