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| Catalog # | Denom. | Date | Turtle | Description | Comment | |||||||||
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| 160f | 2005 | Giant Tortoise | Cinderella sheet of four 160f stamps, each w/ a different animal, including one giant tortoise. Photo of a man w/ flat-brimmed campaign hat and mustache in upper left selvedge of sheet. | Lower selvedge of sheet inscribed "Coral Calcium". | ||||||||||
| 160f | 2005 | Giant Tortoise | Individual stamp w/ tortoise from "Coral Calcium" sheet of four stamps. | Boy Scout logo in upper left corner of stamp. | ||||||||||
| SC | 467 | 70fr | 14 Sep 77 | Chelonia mydas | Adult swimming left underwater. | |||||||||
| SC | 705 | 200fr | 1992 | Caretta caretta | Adult swimming left underwater. | Stamp inscribed "caret". | ||||||||
| SC | 760 | 60f | 17 Jan 97 | Unidentified Tortoise | Single stamp from se-tenant strip of three. Shows tortoise and fox starting race. | Legend adapted from Aesop's "Tortoise and Hare". | ||||||||
| SC | 761 | 60f | 17 Jan 97 | Unidentified Tortoise | Single stamp from se-tenant strip of three. Shows tortoise on road. | Legend adapted from Aesop's "Tortoise and Hare". | ||||||||
| SC | 762 | 60f | 17 Jan 97 | Unidentified Tortoise | Single stamp from se-tenant strip of three. Shows fox sleeping in shade while tortoise goes ahead to win race. | Legend adapted from Aesop's "Tortoise and Hare". | ||||||||
| SC | 762 | a | 60f | 17 Jan 97 | Unidentified Tortoise | Se-tenant strip of three stamps w/ scenes from legend "The Tortoise and the Fox". Drawing of tortoise in selvedge of strip as well as on all three stamps. | Legend adapted from Aesop's "Tortoise and Hare". | |||||||
| SC | 812 | 250f | 14 May 00 | Caretta caretta | Small sheet w/ loggerhead turtles both on the stamp and on the selvedge. | Sheet inscribed "Tortues Caouannes". | ||||||||
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