Portugal

 

1979 One page from "The World's Great Fairy Tales First Day of Issue Collection," specifically for Portugal.  8½" x 11".  Printed in the USA.  Unknown source.&nbs

The Portuguese stamp celebrates the year of the child and is postmarked January 6, 1979.  The image and story include the Aesopic FG story but only as a phase that leads to the fox using the horse as a platform to get the grapes he wants.  I am not sure if I have ever seen this spin on the FG story.  As the verso shows, the story goes for two long paragraphs before we get to the FG story – and goes on from there through a story that has the fox leading the horse to "greener pastures," which just happen to be under the grapevine.