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Emperor and King Franz Joseph I, Austria-Hungary (Oesterreich), stamp, OESTERR. POST, KAIS. KOENIGL, 10 HELLER (1883-1907), 1904

country: Austria-Hungary (Oesterreich)
topic: Emperor and King Franz Joseph I with varnish bars
theme: King / Emperor
code: 110
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: red
year: 1904
publication date: 01/12/1904
postal value: 10 Heller
designer: ?

Information:
Austria-Hungary. Oesterreich is the German name for Austria. Kaiser und Koenig is German for Emperor and King. When Austria and Hungary were united under a single ruler, he held the titles of Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, so they often put Kaiser und Koenig on their stamps, or an abbreviation such as KuK. (source: Wiki Answers, read more about Austria-Hungary on Wiki Answers)

Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (German: Franz Joseph I., Hungarian: I. Ferenc József) (18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia and Apostolic King of Hungary from 1848 until 1916. (source: Wikipedia, read more about Franz Joseph I on Wikipedia)

King Leopold II (Belgium) stamp, 10 c orange-red, Louis-Eugène Mouchon, 01/06/1893

country: Belgium (België / Belgique)
topic: King Leopold II in profile
theme: kings
sort stamp: postal stamp
color: orange-red
year: 1893
publication date: 01/01/1900
stamp value: 10 c
code: 57
perforation: 14
number of issues: 567.000.000
designer: Louis-Eugène Mouchon
engraving: Albert Doms
book printing: Stamp Printing Mechelen

values:
mint (unused): € 14,00 (2008)
mint (with hinge): € 3,25 (2008)
stamped: € 0,20 (2008)
on letter or document: € 5,00 (2008)

More in this series:
King Leopold II in profile, 10 c, red (pink)
King Leopold II in profile, 10 c, orange-red

Notes:
This stamp usually contains a Sunday strip. Stamps without a the Sunday strip has only value on a letter or document. Documents with seals which lacks the Sunday strip lose 50% of their value.

Information:
King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor (Brussels, April 9, 1835 - Laken, 17 December 1909) was Prince of Belgium, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Brabant from 1865-1909 and was King of the Belgians and it's colony Congo. (Source: Wikipedia, Read more about King Leopold II of Belgium on Wikipedia (Dutch))

Louis-Eugène Mouchon (Paris, August 30, 1843-March 3, 1914) was a French engraver, especially noted for its stamp designs. His most famous pieces are the famous French type MOUCHON designs from 1900 and its contribution to the subsequent La Semeuse (from 1902), but he was also asked in many European countries for his designs. He made portraits of the Belgian King Leopold II, the Portuguese kings Louis I, Carlos I and Queen Wilhelmina. (Source: Wikipedia, Read more about Louis-Eugène Mouchon on Wikipedia (Dutch))

King Leopold II (Belgium) stamp, 10 c red (pink), carmine, Louis-Eugène Mouchon, 01/01/1900

country: Belgium (België / Belgique)
topic: King Leopold II in profile
theme: kings
sort stamp: postal stamp
color: red (pink), carmine
year: 1900
publication date: 01/01/1900
stamp value: 10 c
code: 58 (58a carmine)
perforationg: 14
number of issues: 486.000.000
designer: Louis-Eugène Mouchon
engraving: Albert Doms
book printing: Stamp Printing Mechelen

values:
red (pink)
mint (unused): € 14,00 (2008)
mint (with hinge): € 2,75 (2008)
stamped: € 0,50 (2008)
on letter or document: € 7,50 (2008)

carmine
mint (unused): € 9,92 (2001)
mint (with hinge): € 3,97 (2001)
stamped: € 0,99 (2001)
on letter or document: € 6,82 (2001)

More in this series:
King Leopold II in profile, 10 c, red (pink)
King Leopold II in profile, 10 c, orange-red

Notes:
This stamp usually contains a Sunday strip. Stamps without a the Sunday strip has only value on a letter or document. Documents with seals which lacks the Sunday strip lose 50% of their value.

Information:
King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor (Brussels, April 9, 1835 - Laken, 17 December 1909) was Prince of Belgium, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Brabant from 1865-1909 and was King of the Belgians and it's colony Congo. (Source: Wikipedia, Read more about King Leopold II of Belgium on Wikipedia (Dutch))

Louis-Eugène Mouchon (Paris, August 30, 1843-March 3, 1914) was a French engraver, especially noted for its stamp designs. His most famous pieces are the famous French type MOUCHON designs from 1900 and its contribution to the subsequent La Semeuse (from 1902), but he was also asked in many European countries for his designs. He made portraits of the Belgian King Leopold II, the Portuguese kings Louis I, Carlos I and Queen Wilhelmina. (Source: Wikipedia, Read more about Louis-Eugène Mouchon on Wikipedia (Dutch))

King Leopold I (Epauletten), old stamp, first King of Belgium, 10 cent, Dix Cents, brown

country: Belgium (België / Belgique)
code: 1
topic: King Leopold I (first King of Belgium)
theme: King
type of stamp: postal stamp
number of stamps per sheet: 200
circulation: 5250000
kind of serration: not perforated
color: brown
paper type: handmade paper, sort of perkament
engraving (engraving): Robinson H.
engraving type: intaglio
design: Baugniet Ch.
cillinder shape (bookpress): General work center of the Seal at Brussels
year: 1849
publication date: 1/7/1849
postal value: 10 c (Dix Cents)

comments:
decommissioned on 1/7/1866

watermark: two interwoven uppercase 'L' in context. The watermark is not always centrally.

Information:
Leopold I. On May 6, 1840 saw the first stamps in England thanks to the perseverance of Rowland Hill, whose family name has become legendary. The Belgian Post sent an inspector, Louis sources, to our neighbors to study this new payment method. Therefore he recommended a lower standard fee to collect the mail daily to order, effective in 1841, postal services and reorganization to cope with the constant increase in the fetched, carried and issued volume of mail. His first proposal did, however, fear that the financial losses were too high up and was therefore postponed the introduction. Nevertheless encouraged traders to ensure that the entirety of fewer, especially in a uniform manner would be taxed. After many speeches in Parliament was the law on 24 December 1847. Article 4 of this law provides for the use of postage stamps on your shipments, this was the beginning of a much-needed reform to the trade and industry to encourage people of modest rank to correspond with their families. This important tariff reform of 1 July 1849-date of publication of the Royal Decree that the manner of implementation of the law of 24 December 1847 determines somewhat obscured the birth of the postage stamp. This reform was based on two key measures: the simplification of the postage costs for letters: two remote and weight scales were used in the calculation: 10 centime as the distance between the Office of origin and destination does not exceed 30 km, and 20 centime for all other distances in the country. These rates remained valid until 1919. The introduction of the postage in advance, as a logical consequence of the introduction of postage stamps. Prior to this, the letter port was met by the recipient. The use of postage stamps traffic was now stimulated. In 1839 it went through the Belgian postal administration only 7.037.443 letters, or less than 2 per person. two years after the reform, there have been 9 million letters and in 1860 was 17.5 million letters sent. Of course, this is not to compare it with the 3 billion pieces that were awarded in 1998. The manufacture of these two stamps was organized by Jacob Wiener (1815-1899), a passionate graver comes from the Rhineland that publicity generated by his skill in the engraved of medals. However, it was a member of the English firm Perkins & Bacon, Robinson, intaglio graver of book-illustrators and portraits, which the mother has engraved plate and the very popular at the time that painting of Brussels origin, Charles Baugniet, that the portrait of the King. Printing took place in a workplace, installed in one of the outbuildings of the old railway station of Brussels (green drove), in accordance with the intaglio technique. This is a process in several stages. In the first phase in a metal plate at actual size, emboss, and vice versa, the postage chisel. If the plate is a solidified through chemical process, we then proceed to the creation of the molet, a cylinder which also solidified in relief and in the right direction to above the original engraving. Finally, it is about a printing plate molet "rolled" (moleteren), which also is solidified. When you try to print the cover plate printing ink and then to be cleaned except in the cavities of ink. It then creates a pressed wetted sheet of paper at. If the ink can be wiped out drop Hounds on the paper and is there a light relief that corresponds to the draw of the engraver. The paper, variable thickness, were made by hand and the watermark was composed of two interwoven letters "L". Printed on 5,250,000 copies, was the seal of 10 inches in many shades: dark, black, brown, brown, etc. What the seal of 20 inches on the color palette ranges from milky blue to black blue. From 1849 to 1860, has more than 24 million francs of sales. Later, the progressive increase in the number of pieces of correspondence to the introduction of other stamps effect, ie the values of 30 centimes and 1 franc. Philately could emerge.

King Albert I, Belgium (België - Belgique), 1915-1919, 15 c, deep violet, purple, stamp

country: Belgium (België / Belgique)
code: 139 (and 139a)
topic: King Albert I of Belgium
theme: Kings
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: violet (deep violet for 139a)
year: 1915-1919
publication date: 15 October 1915
postal value: 15 c
designer and engraving: Waterlow and Sons Londen

Information:
King Albert I (8 April 1875 – 17 February 1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 until 1934. At the beginning of World War I, Albert complied with a British demand that he not acquiesce to a German request to move troops through Belgium in order to attack Britain's ally, France, which Germany anticipated was about to declare war on Germany in support of Russia. Albert responded to the German demand to move soldiers through his country: 'I rule a nation, not a road!' When Germany subsequently invaded Belgium, King Albert, as prescribed by the Belgian constitution, took personal command of the Belgian army, and held the Germans off long enough for Britain and France to prepare for the Battle of the Marne (6–9 September 1914). (Source: Wikipedia, read more about King Albert I of Belgium on Wikipedia)
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