Colonial campaigns. No’s 77-78

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)

Perforation: 12.5

Size: 24 x 31 mm

Sheet: 100 (10 x 10)

Marginal inscriptions:

Circulation: 150,000 pairs

The surtax of  + 25c helped erect at Kinshasa a monument to those who died in World War II.

 

Printed in alternate rows.

 

 

 

 

Variety:

Scratch through the H of the word Belgisch

 

Curiosity: vertical red line in the sky, just under the overprint of 25c