Red Cross in Congo. No’s 202-203

Date of issue: 10 December 1957

Expiration date: 1 July 1962

Design:

Printing: Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem (The Netherlands)

Perforation: 11.5

Size: 30.5 x 21 mm

Sheet: 50

Marginal inscriptions:

Circulation: 100,000 series

 

Philatelic material.

 

Maximum card "Red Cross" with 2 stamps series, one of Belgian Congo, the other of Ruanda-Urundi.

This maximum card was offered for sale for 35 Franc at the World exhibition, pavilion Construction, Energy and Transportation of Belgium Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

At the request of the buyers it would be cancelled with a special cancel.

Note 1: These were also for sale at normal Belgium post offices, and to our information most probably never sold in the Belgium Congo.

Note 2: the other 3 large maximum cards were also sold at this pavilion:

Belgium Congo "Flowers", 235 Franc

Ruanda-Urundi "Flowers", 75 Franc

Belgium Congo "Kunstblad-50ste Verjaring van Belgisch-Congo", 35 Franc

Edition by Rodan, Brussels-Belgium

Size: 21.5 x 28 cm

This one is cancelled on 5-5-1958, although the emission is from 10 December 1956.