Red Cross. No’s 150-153

Stamps issued on 23 May 1942 with red overprint, with additional charge and alternating text in French “Au profit de la Croix-Rouge” and in Dutch “Ten voordele van het Roode Kruis” (The letters of the overprint can slightly difference in size).

Date of issue: 29 July 1944

Expiration date: 1 January 1951

Design:

Printing: Waterlow and Sons, London

Engraving:

Perforation: 12.5

Note: for the no.271 of the Belgian Congo series a variety is known in perforation:

12.5 x 13.5. I do not know if this also exists for no.151 of Ruanda-Ruanda.

Size for no’s 150, 151 & 153: 26 x 30 mm

Size no.152: 35 x 22 mm

Sheet: 100

Marginal inscriptions:

These stamps were sold in groups of three series; this explains why blocks of four are very rare.

Circulation: 24,000 series

No 150. 50C + 50F, French-Dutch (no 132)

No 151. 1,25F + 100F, Dutch-French (no 136)

No 152. 1,75F + 100F, French-Dutch (no 137)

No 153. 3,50F + 100F, Dutch-French (no 140)

The series:

 

Varieties in overprint:

151-Cu first the French text “Au profit de la Croix-Rouge”

 

152-Cu displaced overprint                  152-Cu2 smudged overprint

                     

 

 

152-Cu3 weak print of the stamp no.137

 

153-Cu first the French text “Au profit de la Croix-Rouge”

 

Overprint on the margin of the sheet, no’s 151 & 152: