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I tried to help i.d. this stamp once before, without success. Now it is mine, and I still can't sort it out.  It looks vaguely Austrian, or maybe Belgian. The years would correspond to Austria's first 100 years of stamps. Any ideas? Thanks for looking. |
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Well that's the engraver taken to a dead end.
How about the building?
can we assume....
1.It most probably will be a GPO
2. if so it probably appears on a genuine stamp somewhere,
the facade is quite striking.
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The building could be a GPO. I've also thought about a museum, an opera house, a state printing works. So far, no matches. I've generally been including "1850" in my search strings...perhaps I need to back away from that.
Thanks for thinking about it. |
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I believe the label celebrates the first 100 years of the Bank of Belgium and shows the Head office in Brussels, built in the 1860's.
Having engraved Belgian Banknotes and Stamps, it was probably fitting that he should design a Commemorative label to give to the Banks Customers !
Looking for a better pic than the one I have.
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Yep, that looks right. Here is an old engraving...  It is interesting to me that this stamp/cinderella/label "looked" Belgian or Austrian...wonder why that is? Thanks much, 'bus!  |
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| Edited by Cjd - 03/10/2011 5:14 pm |
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Well done to the bankbus, I was with stampgal, the gpo is very similar, I was thinking perhaps a renovation in 1950 Bravo to Belgium for maintaining such a beautiful building. Similarity to the GPO (I could not get stampgals link )  |
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I was wondering if we could have taken a clue from the
two sculptures? One is of commerce I believe
which would have dismissed the gpo option.
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It looks like the engraving and the Bank depicted on the label are from around the same time, the Residence [Hotel] is to the left of the columns [First ones] and the later extension is further left and can be seen on the modern day pics. |
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Your label's sibling, a genuine Belgium stamp celebrating the centenary of the bank, with an allegory of savings, the beehive and the horn of plenty. 1950  |
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Posted 03/10/2011 12:19 am
