1963, 1 July. The European Community helps Congo. No’s 507-513.

Design: Jean van Noten (1903-1982)

Printer: Desfosses, France

Perforation: 11.5

size:

Sheet: 12 and 20.

Circulation: 200,000

 

No.507 20c

No.508 30c

No.509 50c

No.510 3Fr

No.511 5Fr

No.512 9Fr

No.513 12Fr

 

The series:

 

The imperforated series:

 

Sheets consisting of 12 stamps, perforated and imperforated. The whole series of the seven diferent stamps exists, here are two examples:

 

There are many variations and curiosities known here are some examples:

 

Wrongly perforated sheets:

 

“Pseudo recto-versa” in which case the ink that was wet from the previous sheet sticked to the back of the sheet on top when the printing was done. During the printing of the sheets, each sheet is separating the following one by a brown sheet accelerating the drying of the ink. If this sheet lacks in the course of printing, the wet recto, prints, comes to apply to the back gum of the preceding sheet.

 

Note: there are sheets printed without ink, this gives an impression in the paper “blind-print”, this is impossible to show with a scan.