50e anniversary of Interpol, 1973

The name Interpol was a junction of the words International & Police.

The Organization was founded in 1923 and reconstituted in 1946. The organization is also called: International Criminal Police Organization – I.C.P.O.

The I.C.P.O.-Interpol was founded to ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities within the limits of the law existing in the different countries worldwide and the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the prevention and suppression of ordinary law crimes. Interpol provides a co-ordination centre (General Secretariat) for its 181 Member Countries. Its priority areas of activity concern criminal organisations, public safety and terrorism, drug-related crimes, financial crime and high-tech crime, trafficking in human beings, and tracking fugitives from justice. Interpol centralizes records and information on international offenders; it operates a worldwide communication network.

Date of issue: 29 September 1973

Expiration date:

Design:

Design: B A Bank Note Ottawa Canada, Graveurs et Imprimeurs.

Perforation: 12.5

Size: 28 x 36 mm

Sheet:

Marginal inscriptions: at the right margin “B A Bank Note Ottawa Canada, Graveurs et Imprimeurs” (I do not know what is on the other margins).

Circulation:

The stamps depict a human hand within its palm the logo of Interpol.

Dominant background color is indicated

No 835. 0,06z, red.

No 836. 0,14z, green.

The series:

The imperforated series is in size and coloring exact the same as above:

Remark: the white border around these stamps is much larger when cut from a side, top, bottom or corner of a sheet.

There are no variations or curiosities known for any of the above shown material.