Postage due stamps, no’s TX1-TX5
Original printed for the Belgium Congo, 30th June 1943
Date of issue: 30 December 1960
Expiration dates see: Historical background
Printer: Waterlow and Sons (London)
Overprint by: IMBELCO in Elisabethville
Perforation: 14 x 14.5 (also? 12.5)
Sheet: 100
Marginal inscriptions:
Circulation: 8,000 series
No TX1. 10c, olive green (no 73)
No TX2. 20c, blue (no 74)
No TX3. 50c green (no 75)
No TX4a. 1F, brown (no 76)
No TX5a. 2F, orange (no 77)
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Overprint: in blue and less frequent in black, a dark purple/violet “aubergine = eggplant” is also known, this could have caused by dirt on the stamp?
Original printed for the Belgium Congo, 15th March 1957
Date of issue: 30 December 1960
Expiration dates see: Historical background
Postage due stamps, no’s TX6-TX7
Printer: Waterlow and Sons (London)
Perforation: 11.5
Sheet: 50
Marginal inscriptions:
Circulation: 8,000 series
No TX1a. 10c bistre-brown (no 87)
No TX2a. 20c lilac-brown (no 79)
No TX3a. 50c green (no 80)
No TX4. 1F, blue (no 81)
No TX5. 2F, red (no 82)
No TX6. 4F, violet (no 83)
No TX7. 6F, blue-violet (no 84)
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See for overprint the remark above.
Example of another overprint Overprint = forgery (black and white photograph)
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Example of a smudged overprint
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