Post by Gordon Lee on Sept 19, 2013 20:05:46 GMT -5
Greetings Fellow SB Boarders
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I'm a big fan of old odd, weird, eerie, unusual, obscure, and creepy tales. It pleases me greatly when they become the subject matter on stamps. If you got them, let us see them.
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ZIMBABWE -- SCOTT 890
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Zimbabwe issued a set of six lithograph stamps on 24 July 2001 commemorating local folklore. The largest denomination of this unwatermarked, perforated 14x14.5 set is the 28-dollar "The Tortoise Who Collected Wisdom."
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The tortoise stars in many African folklore stories. He is mainly represented as slow, patient, vindictive, sometimes cruel in his revenge, and a reputation for uncanny wisdom. Absolutely harmless and inoffensive in himself, the tortoise does not prey on even the smallest of insects, but subsists entirely on the fallen fruits of the forest.
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There are several folklore tales in which can be depicted on this stamp. Here's the one I think it is:
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The baboon and the tortoise became good friends. To celebrate their friendship the baboon invited the tortoise to a feast in his honor. A fantastic brew of millet-beer, that he knew is the favorite of the tortoise. Just because it is the nature of the baboon, he thought it would be great fun to place the pot of millet-beer up in a tree. The tortoise, being, of course, unable to climb up, while his host offered no other accommodation, had to return home hungry and thirsty.
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The tortoise paid his friend out by inviting him at the end of the dry season (the time of the grass-fires) and preparing his feast on a spot which could be reached only by crossing a patch of burnt ground. When the baboon arrived he was politely requested to wash his hands. As the baboon had to cross the burnt grass again to reach the stream in order to do so he came back with them as black as ever. (Remember, baboons do not walk upright.) This went on so long - for the tortoise would not let him sit down till his hands were clean - that the baboon was tired out, and went home in disgust.
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Respectfully,
Gordon Lee
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I'm a big fan of old odd, weird, eerie, unusual, obscure, and creepy tales. It pleases me greatly when they become the subject matter on stamps. If you got them, let us see them.
.
.
ZIMBABWE -- SCOTT 890
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Zimbabwe issued a set of six lithograph stamps on 24 July 2001 commemorating local folklore. The largest denomination of this unwatermarked, perforated 14x14.5 set is the 28-dollar "The Tortoise Who Collected Wisdom."
.
The tortoise stars in many African folklore stories. He is mainly represented as slow, patient, vindictive, sometimes cruel in his revenge, and a reputation for uncanny wisdom. Absolutely harmless and inoffensive in himself, the tortoise does not prey on even the smallest of insects, but subsists entirely on the fallen fruits of the forest.
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There are several folklore tales in which can be depicted on this stamp. Here's the one I think it is:
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The baboon and the tortoise became good friends. To celebrate their friendship the baboon invited the tortoise to a feast in his honor. A fantastic brew of millet-beer, that he knew is the favorite of the tortoise. Just because it is the nature of the baboon, he thought it would be great fun to place the pot of millet-beer up in a tree. The tortoise, being, of course, unable to climb up, while his host offered no other accommodation, had to return home hungry and thirsty.
.
The tortoise paid his friend out by inviting him at the end of the dry season (the time of the grass-fires) and preparing his feast on a spot which could be reached only by crossing a patch of burnt ground. When the baboon arrived he was politely requested to wash his hands. As the baboon had to cross the burnt grass again to reach the stream in order to do so he came back with them as black as ever. (Remember, baboons do not walk upright.) This went on so long - for the tortoise would not let him sit down till his hands were clean - that the baboon was tired out, and went home in disgust.
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Respectfully,
Gordon Lee
