File:BEL-CG 1923 pm B002a.jpg

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Stamp of Belgian Congo; 1923; definitive stamp of the issue "Native people and Animals"; stamp motive with the head dress of an Ubangi woman (a people with core settlement area around the Ubangi river in the North West provinces of the contemporary Democratic Republic of the Congo); stamp postmarked on
Stamp: Michel: No. 66; Yvert & Tellier: No. 106; Scott:No. 88
Color: orange
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 5 C (Centimes)

Postage validity: from 1 September 1923 until 31 December 1932
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1923-09-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1932-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp): 27.0 x 25.5 mm
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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 Head dress of an Ubangi woman
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration for Belgian Congo
Design Emile Vloors (1871-1952) (design + engraving)
Printer "American Bank Note Company" (ABNC), New York
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation 1,750,000 (in sheets à 100 stamps)
Perforation Line or comb perforation, L 12 or K 12
MICHEL Nr. Belgisch-Kongo, Nr. 66
SCOTT Nr. Belgian Congo, No. 88

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