Colonial campaigns.
No’s 132-133. Issued to commemorate and as a tribute for the Colonial campaigns of 1914-1918, gloriously lead by General Tombeur (Charles Henry Marie Tombeur, 1867-1918). The same series was issued with overprint Ruanda-Urundi for R.U. in 1925.
The surtax of + 25c helped erect at Kinshasa a monument to those who died in World War I.
Date of issue: 8 July 1925
They were sold only by subscription between 8/7/25 & 31/12/26
Expiration date: 1 January 1927
Design: Robert Mols and Piet van Engelen
Engraving and printing: Waterlow and Sons (London)
Typografical overprint of +25c: Waterlow and Sons (London)
Perforation: 12.5
Size: 24 x 31 mm
Sheet: 100 (10 x 10)
Marginal inscriptions:
Circulation: 150,000 pairs
Printed in alternate rows.
No’s 132 (French text)-133 (Dutch text)
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Here a part of a sheet printed in alternate rows:
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Varying possibilities are shown here:
Horizontal pair, Dutch-French text Horizontal pair: French-Dutch text
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Vertical pair, Dutch-French text Vertical pair, French- Dutch text
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Variety:
Scratch through the H of the word Belgisch
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