File:BEL-CG 1942 MiNr0204 mt B002.jpg

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Stamp of Belgian Congo; 1942; definitive stamp of the issue "Native subjects"; stamp motive with a view to a landscape with oil palms of the species "Elaeis guineensis"; country name in Flemish and French "BELGISCH - CONGO - BELGE" as three-sided marginal frame inscription; nominal value in all four corners: mint stamp
Stamp: Michel: No. 204; Yvert & Tellier: No. 228; Scott: No. 187
Color: scarlet to red
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 5 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
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"
Picture description Landscape with palm trees
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration for Belgian Congo
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Waterlow & Sons", London
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation 11,600,000 (in sheets à 50 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 12½
MICHEL Nr. Belgisch-Kongo, Nr. 204
SCOTT Nr. Belgian Congo, No. 187

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