Indigenous peoples, animals and landscapes.

Date of issue of the original stamp: 1 April 1931

Design:

Engraving: L'Institut de Gravure de Paris (Graphical Institute of Paris)

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

Perforation: 11.5

Size: 33.5 x 24 & 24 x 34.5 mm

Sheet: 75

Marginal inscriptions:

Circulation: unknown with this overprint

Curiosity in overprint:

Apparently there where American troops during the war in the Congo, a Belgian stamp dealer from Liège thought it would be a good idea to use this series of stamps and make an overprint. They were never officially approved or used. Notice the wrongly spelled word “detatchment”, should be detachment.

Only 5 stamps of the series were used:

16 cents on 75c (no 175). Red-carmine

15 cents on 50c (no 173). Violet

20 cents on 1F (no 176). Pink

30 cents on 1.25F (no 177). Brown-red

50 cents on 2F (no 178). Ultramarine