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Belgian Congo Overprint - Help Needed!

 
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Posted 06/19/2011   06:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add DavidR to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Good morning all,
Does anyone know where I can find this in the catalogue? It is a Belgian Congo issue from 1915, but with an overprint which appears to read "German East Africa, Belgian Occupation". Have tried all the expected places in my old SG Stamps of the World, and still can't find it listed anywhere.

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Posted 06/19/2011   07:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Have a look under Ruanda-Urundi in SG Stamps of the World.

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Posted 06/19/2011   07:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That's strange,
I thought the Germans kept East Africa until the armistice in 1918 ?
The South Africans took SWA.
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Posted 06/19/2011   07:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ruanda-Urundi was part of German East Africa until occupied by Belgian forces in 1916.

The overprint is in French and Flemish.

The stamp above is SG 16
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Posted 06/19/2011   07:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DavidR to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks very much Plateflaw, another case of me not persevering enough!
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Posted 06/23/2011   10:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add funcitypapa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
LISTED UNDER GERMANY--- GERMAN OCCUPATION
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Posted 06/23/2011   11:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Depends on the Catalogue. Listed in Germany, or Ruanda-Burundi or German East Africa.
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