Belgium : Stamps On Steiner Pages.

I only can say : be proud on your collection , it is a fantastitic collection and go on in this way . I am doing now the same thing but with German stamps .It is very cheap to buy and it gives you a lot of work , just what you need in winter ( so you have to wait now).
Hereby photo's of my album , it dates from 1912 and most of stamps are there since that time . I complete it when I find anything .Besides this album , I have another with stamps that were in a box , I will make photo's later this week .albert

Nice collection ,work on your photo skills and people will use your collection as a reference point ,thanks for showing it .

Blessings of the Internet.
1981
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Today, we can have our queries answered within minutes.

Stamp Collecting Magazine 1981 March.




The answer by the way... I believe referred to as a Diamant Ambulante Cancel.

Parcel Post and Railway Stamps
1940
Steiner Page 73.

Nice to have a postmark recalling one of the world's great beers in Chimay.

Lost on me Geoff, being a teetotal, update me, if you spot one for a great Cheese...

Parcel Post and Railway
1945
Steiner Page 73

Engineer at Throttle.
Adjusting Tie Plates.



Multiples
Slots in at 1945 Steiner Page 73A

Detail : Selvedge (and fingerprint)
Perforation location Pip.

The good news is that Chimay produce cheeses as well

http://chimay.com/en/

Though I'm keener in blue cheeses myself.

Neophyte with early Belgium.
These Sc# 19's come in a vast array of apparent disintegration,
is this common on these issues?
Probably light damage?
Is the dark blue the closest to the original?

I keep for the postmarks.

I wanted to say how much I am enjoying this thread. I got started with the cancels on the parcel post issues, and brodened to Belgium proper. I like the multicolored definitive sets, the tabs, the different types of cancellations and the precancels. Will post some images soon.

Great,
look forward to them.
Belgium has a huge range of semi-postals.

Belgica '72 International Stamp Exhibition. Brussels.

1971 Semi Postals Steiner Page 57.

Sundry Ephemera:

Unknown Card (No Value Indicated)
What does "INV" stand for after the designer?
Henri Meunier (born Henri Georges Jean Isidore Meunier; 25 July 1873 was a Belgian Art Nouveau lithographer, etcher, illustrator, bookbinder and poster designer of the Belle Époque.


Not seen this anywhere.
Operations de Bourse Beursverrichtingen 30c Green
Stock Exchange Transactions



Mutilated Stationery Postcard pieces.

The first piece shown is a piece of mutilated postcard.

Not part of the front, but the back.

in 1905 a postcard was issued to commemorate 75 years of independance.

The logo on the back exists in 6 colors. Brown. Dark red(shown), light red, oliv green, green and blue.

Inv. Is short for invenit. Meaning the one who designed this.

Again, thanks Johan, (saved for my album page)
my card is Olive Green on back.


Thanks
Same as del. = delinevit one whom designed this I guess.

Very informative thread. Nice work, Rod and all.

For what it's worth, now that my downsizing from a world wide collection is almost complete, I held on to my Belgium and colonies collection. Big reasons are the pre-cancels and the trains on the parcel post stamps. Belgium will be a secondary specialty. Not sure when I'll get to re-organizing. But my collections are boxed away, and include a couple stockbooks full of pre-cancels and perfin stamps that I got from the Kelleher auction house in Connecticut last month.