BELGIUM Due, Telegraph, Telephone stamps and proofs

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Postage due stamps

1870 Number in circle, inscription 'A PERCEVOIR'

  10 c green
  20 c blue

The 10 c green was also used bisected, example:

(Reduced size)

1895 Number in circle with lions at both sides, coloured center

  5 c green
  10 c brown
  10 c red (1900)
  20 c green
  30 c blue (1915)
  50 c brown
  50 c grey (1900)
  1 F red
  1 F yellow (1900)

1919 Design with white center

  5 c green
  5 c grey
  10 c red
  10 c green (was also issued in bluish green)
  20 c olive
  20 c brown
  30 c blue
  30 c red (two shades of color were issued)
  35 c green
  40 c brown
  50 c grey
  50 c blue
  50 c black
  60 c red
  70 c brown
  80 c grey
  1 F violet
  1 F lilac
  1.20 F olive
  1.40 F grey
  1.50 F grey
  1.60 F lilac
  2 F lilac
  3.50 F blue

Ordinary stamps overprinted with a 'T' were also used as postage due stamps, examples:

(reduced sizes)

Telegraph stamps

1866 Inscription 'TELEGRAPHES', king Leopold I

  50 c grey
  1 F green

1871 Inscription 'TELEGRAPHES', king Leopold II

  10 c violet
  25 c green
  50 c brown
  60 c olive
  80 c black
  1 F red
  5 F blue

The 10 c, 25 c, 50 c, 1 F and 5 F exist in two types; with solid background (1871) and with lined background (1897).

1879 As before, but with number instead of king

  5 c grey
  5 c brown

1889 Large stamp with king

Here with 'SPECIMEN' overprint

  25 F green and red

A forgery of this stamp is mentioned in the Serrane Guide.

1865-75 Inscription 'TELEGRAMME ORDINAIRE POUR LA BELGIQUE'

20 mots (=words) 50 cent

3 types of this label exist: the above one (1865), one with larger inscriptions (1866) and one with the lion facing the right (1875). I don't know what the exact status of these labels was.

1897 Stamp for telegraphic receipts, inscription 'ADMINISTRATION DES TELEGRAPHES BEHEER VAN TELEGRAFEN'

(Reduced size)

  10 c black

Express stamps

1929 Various cities, inscription 'EXPRESS'

  1.75 F blue
  2.35 F red
  3.50 F lilac
  5.25 F olive

1931 Fountain of Eupen

  2.45 F green

Surcharged
  '2.50 fr x' (red) on 2.45 F green (1932)

Parcel Stamps

1928 Stamps in the Hoyoux design (King Albert in an ellipse), overprinted 'COLIS POSTAL POSTCOLLO' with 'C' and 'P' fancy

  4 F yellow
  5 F light brown

1929 General post office in Brussels, inscription 'COLIS POSTAL POST COLLO'

  3 F brown
  4 F grey
  5 F red
  6 F lilac (1930)

Surcharged
  'X 4 4 X' on 6 F lilac (1933)

Airmail Stamps

1930 Aeroplane above several cities

  50 c blue (Ostende)
  1.50 F brown (St.Hubert)
  2 F green (Namur Namen)
  5 F red-brown (Bruxelles Brussel)
  5 F violet (for airmail to Belgian Congo, rare)

Surcharged (1935)
  1 F (red) on 1.50 F grey
  4 F (blue) on 5 F brown

50 c stamp with red overprint 'SERVICE POSTAL AERIEN ANVERS- MALMOE VLIEGPOST DIENST ANTWERPEN MALMOE'

I've seen a pair of imperforate 50 c stamps. I've also seen some 50 c stamps, with red overprint 'SERVICE POSTAL AERIEN ANVERS- DUSSELDORF VLIEGPOST DIENST ANTWERPEN DUSSELDORF' or 'SERVICE POSTAL AERIEN ANVERS- MALMOE VLIEGPOST DIENST ANTWERPEN MALMOE'

1946 Aeroplane flying from left to right

Telephone stamps

1890 Inscription 'ETAT BELGE TELEPHONE BELGISCHE STAAT TELEPHOON', portrait of King Leopold II

(1 Fr blue, value in red)

  25 c violet and black
  30 c olive and black
  50 c green and black
  90 c brown and black
  1 F blue and red
  2 F brown and black
  3 F red and blue
  3.75 F lilac and blue

Tete-beche stamps exist (with a white margin in between the two stamps).

I have seen reprints of these stamps (also without the value inscription). All the values I have seen were printed in tete-beche columns (quite far apart) and imperforate, examples:

Proofs

Essay of a railway stamp 'TRANSPORT DES PETITS COLIS TIMBRE ADHESIF'

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