Philatelic-exhibition “Phibelza”, 1980

Exposition Philatelique Belgo-Zairoise 1980

The exposition was held in the C.C.I.Z. (Centre de Commerce International du Zaïre), Kinshasa, from 6-14 December 1980.

Date of issue: 6 December 1980

Expiration date:

Design:

Printing:

Perforation: 14

Size: 44 x 33 mm

Sheet: 20 (4 x 5)

Marginal inscriptions: gold border all around with “ZAIRE” in white on top, and “exposition phibelza 1980” at the bottom.

Circulation: 112,500

Four Belgium stamps were depicted.

No 1050-53. 4 x 1z (no 381 + 1140 Belgium)

No 1054-57. 4 x 2z (no 484 + 1473 Belgium)

No 1058-61. 4 x 3z (no 805 +1607 Belgium)

No 1062-65. 4 x 4z (no 624 + 1982 Belgium)

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

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

If the sheet was cut in pars, there are four possible combinations for each value:

These would have been cut from the center, therefore it unlikely that many or any were cut this way, but it is possible:

Here an example of a whole sheet:

LX 1050/65 Two luxury sheets with different values (no gum)

Note: the same luxury sheets exist on thicker paper, LXa1050/65 (no gum).

LX 1050/65-Cu1 the with reversed black overprint:

LX 1050/65-Cu2 lacking the blue ink

(Printed on thicker paper, sold in auction 2003 as “unique”):