File:BCG 1942 MiNr0214 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Belgian Congo; 1942; definitive stamp of the issue "Native subjects"; stamp motive with a side portrait (head) of a Batetela woman; inscription "Belgisch congo - Congo belge" (French name as second); stamp postmarked in Matadi in 1947
Stamp: Michel: No. 214; Yvert & Tellier: No. 236; Scott:No. 214
Color: violet / black
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 75 C. (Centimes)

Postage validity: from 23 May 1942 until 31 December 1952
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1942-05-23T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1952-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp): 26.0 x 30.0 mm

Postmark: Matadi, , one-circle standard cancellation with one-line date/time line and 31 mm diameter
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration for Belgian Congo
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Public domain This work was first published in Belgium and is in the public domain because its exempt from copyright protection by virtue of the Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights (of June 30, 1994, as amended by the Law of April 3, 1995), enacted 1995. The work meets the following criteria:
  • It is any "official act of the authorities"
Other versions There exist two different, but motive-identical issues: one with "Belgisch Congo / Congo belge" and one other with "Congo belge / Belgisch Congo".
Picture description Head of a Batetela woman
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration for Belgian Congo
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Waterlow & Sons", London
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation 2,700,000 (in sheets à 100 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 12½
MICHEL Nr. Belgisch-Kongo, Nr. 234
SCOTT Nr. Belgian Congo, No. 196

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