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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
1238225
Area
Stamps
Title
King Albert I
Face value
5
Country / area
Year
1920
Month
03
Day
20
Issue group
Order Number in Issue
4
Exact colour
Usage
Type
Theme / topic
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Michel number
3
Yvert number
10
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
OBP-COB number
OC87
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
20 x 24 mm
Details
Type I = The slantng line in the top left corner is attached to the scroll before the word “BELGIQUE”. There is a break in this scroll.
Type II = the scroll in the top left corner is not attached.
Type III = there is a break in the scroll which isn’t attached but breaks through the slanting line in the top left corner.
Type IV = there is a break in the scroll and one prong of the foliage in the top left corner is longer touching almost the 14th pearl of the centre section, counted from the left figure “5”.
Black overprint “Eupen” (8 mm width) (Typo Stamp Works Malines).
This item is known in the catalogues as one of the following numbers:
Michel: 3 AI (green, type I) or 3 AII (green, type II);
Yvert & Tellier: 10;
Officiële Postzegelcatalogus België: OC87 (green, type I) or OC87a (yellow-green) or OC87A (green, type II) or OC87B (green, type IV).