Landscapes by Mols and Van Engelen, 15 May 1918, no’s 72-80

Design: Robert Mols and Piet van Engelen

Engraving and printing: Waterlow and Sons (London)

Perforation: 14 or 15

Perforation: 15 is more rare, and exists next to the 14 only in the no’s 72-77.

Size: 24 x 31 mm or 31 x 24 mm

Sheet: 50

Typographic overprint

Circulation:

No.72 5c + 10c, green, 250,000 stamps

No.73 10c + 15c, carmine, 250,000 stamps

No.74 15c + 20c, green, 200,000 stamps

No.75 25c + 25c, blue, 150,000 stamps

No.76 40c + 40c, carmine/brown, 150,000 stamps

No.77 50c + 50c, lilac/brown, 100,000 stamps

No.78 1Fr + 1Fr, olive, 50,000 stamps

No.79 5Fr + 5Fr, orange, 15,000 stamps

No.80 10Fr + 10Fr, green, 10,000 stamps

No.80a overprint in vermilion and is thicker

 

Series imperforated (never with gum):

 

There are no varieties known.

Curiosity:

 

No.77 No perforation at the bottom (of the sheet):

 

So called “recto versa”, I call this “pseudo recto-versa” because it is not a real recto-versa, actually the ink that was wet from the previous sheet and stuck to the back of the sheet on top when the overprinting was done.

 

The series exist in proof, here number 72 & 80:

 

Printers proofs (mounted on board), these were printed on a larger piece of paper, according to Bilmans they could be unique, or printed in sets of two, four or maximum 6.

The numbers 72, 74, 75, 76, 78 & 80, the other numbers may not exist: