Overprints Government of Leopoldville. No’s 225-227

For 225:

Date of issue: 6 March 1942

Expiration date: 1 September 1942

Design: M.G.Goodman

Zinconographie by: McManus Bros

Printing: Litho Co. Ltd, South Africa

Overprinting: General Government of Leopoldville

Perforation: 11

Size: 21 x 27.5 mm

Sheet: 100 (10 x 10)

Marginal inscriptions:

Circulation: 100,000 stamps

No 225 75c on 1,75Fr (no 220), orange

225-Cu 75c on 1,75Fr Reversed overprint

225 imperforated 225 displaced overprint:

225 Double perforations

For 226-227:

Date of issue no 226: 12 July 1941

Date of issue no 227: 6 March 1942

Expiration date: 1 September 1942

Design:

Engraving: Jean Malvaux

Printing: Atelier du Timbre, Malines. (Zegeldrukkerij, Mechelen-Belgium)

Overprinting: General Government of Leopoldville

Perforation: 11.5

Size: 24 x 34 & 33 x 24 mm

Sheet: 100 (10 x 10)

Marginal inscriptions:

Circulation: see the stamps

No 226. 5c on 1,50Fr (no 199), carmine-brown and black, 420,000 stamps

No 227. 2,50Fr on 2,40Fr (no 200), black-green and brown, 100,000 stamps

No 226 Red overprint (proof) 2e example (coll. CD)

226-V Small lake “small lake”, this is the white spot above ‘aux’ of the word Nationaux. In each sheet there is one on position 42.

226-Cu 5c on 1,50Fr Reversed overprint 226-Cu Overprint recto-verso.

Incomplete overprint

226 displaced overprint:

227-Cu 2,50Fr on 2,40 227-Cu 2,50Fr on 2,40Fr

Reversed Double overprint

227 displaced overprint: