The Postal service
Congo mail service
Ruanda-Urundi mail service
Registered and recorded mail service
Small packets service
Postal packet service
Express service
Financial Mandates
Airmail
Aero philately
Postage values
Issues of the Congo Free State
1886 - 1 Léopold II - profile
1886 - 2 Léopold II - profile (1 to 5 and postcard 2)
1887 - 1 Parcel-postal stamp (CP1)
1887 - 2 Léopold II - image (9, 11)
1887 - 3 Parcel-postal stamps (CP2 and 4)
1888 - 1 Postcard (3)
1889 - 1 Léopold II - image (8) and postcards “two palm trees” (4 to 7)
1891 - 1 Léopold II - image (6, 7, 13)
1892 - 1 Postcards “two palm trees” (8, 9)
1892 - 2 Léopold II - image (12, cp5 and postcards 10, 11)
1894 - 1 Léopold II - image (postcards 12 and 13)
1894 - 2 Léopold II - image (10) 1894 - 3 Mols and Van Engelen (14, 15, 17,18, 21, 24, 26)
1896 - 1 Mols and Van Engelen (20, 23)
1897 - 1 Postcards (14, 16, 17, 18, 19)
1897 - 2 Postcard (15)
1898 - 1 Mols (27, 29)
1900 - 1 Mols and Van Engelen (16, 19, 22, 25)
Issues of Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi
1909-1 “Belgian Congo" overprints
Brussels handstamps
Local handstamps
Typographical overprint
Princes issue
1909-2 Unilingual (50 to 53, postcards 26, 27)
1910-1 Bilingual (54 to 57)
1910-2 Surcharged postcards (28 to 35)
1910-3 Bilingual (58, 59, 60, 62)
1910-4 Bilingual (61,63, postcards 36, 37)
1911-1 Postcard (41)
1912-1 Postcards (38 to 40)
1912-2 Illustrated postcards - 1st series (42, 43)
1915-1 Bilingual modified (64 to 71, postcards 44 to 47)
1916-1 German East Africa (R9 to R23, postcards)
1916-2 German East Africa (R28 to R35)
1917-1 Booklets 1 and 2
1918-1 German East Africa (postcards R7 to R10)
1918-2 Red Cross (72 to 80, R36 to R44)
1918-3 German East Africa (illustrated postcards R11, R12)
1921-1 Recovery (85 to 94, postcards 48 to 51)
1921-2 Airmail stamps (PA1 to PA4)
1921-3 Booklet 3 (airmail stamps)
1922-1 Malines surcharges (95 to 99, R45 to R49, postcards 52 to 60, R13 to R18)
1922-2 Booklet 4
1922-3 Illustrated postcards (61,62)
1922-4 Boma surcharges (100, 102)
1922-5 Boma surcharge (101)
1923-1 Boma and Elisabethville surcharges (103 to 105)
1923-2 Vloors (107, 108, 110)
1923-3 Postage-due stamps (T66 to T72)
1923-4 Vloors (106, 112, 113, 114)
1924-1 Vloors (109, 111, 115, 116, 117)
1924-2 Postcards (63 to 65)
1924-3 Vloors (119, 121, 123, 125, R50 to R61, R63, R67, R69, R79, R80) and postage-due stamps (RT9 to RT14)
1925-1 Colonial campaigns (132, 133, R77, R78)
1925-2 Vloors and Leys (124, 127, R68, R71)
1926-1 Vloors (118, R62)
1927-1 Vloors and Leys (122, 126, 129, 130, R66, R70, R73, R74)
1927-2 Vloors (120, 128, 131, 134, R64, R72, R75, R76) and illustrated postcards (66, 67, R19, R20)
1928-1 Stanley (135 to 139)
1930-1 Natives Protection Fund (150 to 158, R81 to R89)
1930-2 Airmail stamps (PA5, PA6)
1931-1 Surcharged Stanley and Vloors (163, 165, R90, R91)
1931-2 Vloors (159 to 161) Stanley (162, 164, 166, 167) postcard (68)
1931-3 Indigenous scenes (R92 to R106)
1931-4 Indigenous scenes (177)
1932-1 Indigenous scenes (168 to 176, 178 to 183)
1932-2 Surcharged Vloors (161A)
1932-3 Postcards (69 to 72)
1932-4 Postcards (R21 to R24)
1934-1 Airmail stamps (PA7 to PA15)
1934-2 Death of King Albert (184, R107)
1935-1 50th Anniversary of the Free State (185 to 191)
1936-1 Airmail stamp (PA17)
1936-2 King Albert monument (192, 193)
1936-3 Congo Children's fund (194 to 196, R108 to R110)
1937-1 National parks (196A)
1937-2 Indigenous scenes (177A, 178A, R112, R113)
1938-1 National parks (197 to 202)
1938-2 Indigenous scenes (R111)
1938-3 Tourist Congress, Costermansville (203 to 208)
1939-1 Booklet 5
1939-2 Zoological Gardens Fund, Léopoldville (209 to 213)
1941-1 King Albert's memorial (214 to 224, R122, R123)
1941-2 "Indegenous" overprints (R114 to R117, R121
1941-3 Surcharged National park (226)
1941-4 Surcharged National park (R118)
1942-1 War "Relief Fund" (268, 269, R148, R149)
1942-2 King Albert Memorial (R124, R125)
1942-3 Stamps in everyday use (228 to 246, 249 to 267, R126 to R145)
1942-4 Léopoldville surcharges (PA16, 225, 227)
1942-5 Postcards (73 to 76)
1942-6 Léopoldville overprints (R119, R120)
1942-7 Stamps in everyday use (247, 248)
1943-1 Postage-due stamps (T73 to T77)
1943-2 Postcards (R25, R26)
1943-3 Stamps in everyday use (R146, R147)
1943-4 Postage-due stamps (RT15 to RT19)
1943-5 “Message" sheets
1945-1 Red Cross of Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (270 to 273, R150 to R153)
1947-1 Abolition of Slavery (274 to 276)
1947-2 Indigenous art (282, 285, 288)
1948-1 Indigenous art (280, 284, 290, 291, 293)
1948-2 Indigenous art (277, 278, 279, 281, 283, 286, 287, 289, 292, 294, 295)
1948-3 Postcards (77 to 80, R27 to R30)
1948-4 Indigenous art (R154 to R172)
1948-5 Railway Anniversary Léopoldville - Matadi (296)
1949-1 75th Anniversary of U.P.U. (297)
1949-2 U.P.U.
1949-3 Indigenous art (288A, 291A, R173, R174, R175)
1950-1 Indigenous art (285A, 286B, 287A, 291B)
1950-2 Special Committee of Katanga (298, 299)
1950-3 Indigenous art (286A, R163A)
1951-1 Postcards (81 to 84, R31 to R34)
1951-2 Abolition of Slavery (300, 301)
1952-1 Flora (305, 307, 310, 312, 313, 314, 317)
1952-2 Flora (309, 315, 316, 318)
1952-3 Flora (302, 303, 304, 306, 308, 321)
1952-4 Saint François-Xavier (324, R176)
1953-1 Kivu festival(325, 326)
1953-2 Flora (311, 319, 320, 322, 323)
1953-3 Flora (R177 to R195)
1954-1 Belgian Colonial Royal Institute (327, 328)
1955-1 Royal visit (329 to 336, R196 to R199)
1955-2 Air letters
1955-3 International Congress of African tourism (337, 338)
1956-1 Mozart (339, 340, R200, R201)
1957-1 Postage-due stamps (T78 to T84)
1957-2 Red Cross (341 to 343, R202 to R204)
1958-1 Lettercard
1958-2 Postcard (85)
1958-3 50th Anniversary of Belgian Congo (344 to 349)
1959-1 postcard (86)
1959-2 Postage-due stamps (RT20 to RT26)
1959-3 Postcard (R35)
1959-4 Protected animals (350 to 361, R205 to R216)
1959-5 Christmas (362 to 364)
1960-1 Technical assistance in Africa (365, 366, R217, R218)
1960-2 Pro Juventute (367 to 371, R219 to R223)
1960-3 Protected animals (R224)
1961-1 Protected animals (R216A, R216B)
1961-2 Usumbura cathedral (R225 to R230)
Incomplete postcards
Franking machines
International reply coupon
Underpaid - Postage due
Cachets and postmarks
Cancellations
Post offices list
Offices introduction
Offices “A”
Offices “B”
Offices “C”
Offices “D”
Offices “E”
Offices “F”
Offices “G”
Offices “I and J”
Offices “K”
Offices “L”
Offices “M”
Offices “N and O”
Offices “P”
Offices “R and S”
Offices “T and U”
Offices “V, W, Y and Z”
Post offices in Ruanda-Urundi
Intructional marks
Salvaged mail marks
Maritime mail
Maritime mail marks and cancellers
Belgian maritime Company boats
Albertville 1
Albertville 2
Albertville 3
Albertville 4
Albertville 5
Albertville 6
Anversville 1
Anversville_2
Baudouinville 1
Baudouinville 2
Baudouinville 3
Bruxellesville 1
Bruxellesville 2
Bruxellesville 3
Charlesville
Copacabana
Elisabethville 1
Elisabethville 2
Elisabethville 3
Gouverneur Galopin
Armand Grisar
Jadotville
Léopoldville 1
Léopoldville 2
Léopoldville 3
Léopoldville 4
Léopoldville 5
Léopoldville 6
Mandigo
Mar del Plata
Nigeria
Philippeville
Stanleyville 1
Stanleyville 2
Steenstraete
Tervaete
Thysville 1
Thysville 2
Van Opstal 2
Inland navigation
Railway Companies
Advertising slogans affixed by the post office
Principal postal rates
Rates for Belgium
Inland rates
International rates
African Postal Union rates
Airmail postal rates
Airmail service rate 1920-1935
Airmail service rate June 1, 1935
Airmail service rate April 1, 1937
Airmail service July 1, 1937
Airmail service rate September 1, 1938
Airmail service rate September, 1 1939
Airmail service rate September, 1, 1940
Airmail service rate January 1, 1942
Airmail service rate September 1, 1944
Airmail service rate November 27, 1944
Airmail service rate December 15, 1945
Airmail service rate January 1, 1946
Airmail service rate July 15, 1946
Airmail service rate January 1, 1947
Airmail service rate September 15, 1947
Airmail service rate Septembre 1949
Airmail service rate June 1, 1952
Airmail service rate July 1, 1953
Airmail service rate January 1, 1958
Airmail service rate April 1, 1959
Airmail service rate June 30, 1960
Postage stamps used, other than on corespondance
Arms permits
Dispatch note postal packet
Directorate-General of the stations
Telegraphic documents
Complaint
Procuration
Correspondences Repair labels
Two World Wars
Military post offices during World War I
Censor marks during World War I
Military post offices during World War II
Censor marks during World War II
Publicity sheets
Forgeries, curiosities, fantasies and inventions
Colonies Ministers
Congo Governors
Ruanda-Urundi Governors
Katanga
Biography of persons commemored by postal history
King Albert I
Queen Astrid
Banning, Emile
Prince Baudouin ; King Baudouin
Cattier, Félicien
Prince Charles
Coquilhat, Camille-Aime
Costermans, Paul-Marie
Dhanis, Francis
Queen Elisabeth
Baron Empain, Edouard
Francqui, Emile
Galopin, Alexandre
Grisar, Armand
Jacques de Dixmude
Jadot, Jean
Kallina, E.
Baron Lambermont, Auguste
Lavigerie, Charles
King Léopold II
Lever, William
Paulis, Albert
Ponthier, Pierre
Saint François-Xavier
Stanley, Henry Morton
Thieffry, Edmond
Thys, Albert
Van Opstal, Alexis
Wolter, Gaston
Concise bibliography
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