NEW BELGIAN STAMPS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 3, 5 January 1916, Page 3

NEW BELGIAN STAMPS.

j Last month there was a new issue !of Belgian stamps in London. These

appear at an extraordinary

moment,

for there remain only a few towns, I such as "Baar-le-Duc,'•' where they I can be used (remarks the Sunday , Times (London). The set consists of. j 14 values, and the interesting designs j show lc to 25e the portrait of King | Albert 1., 35c the famous Cloth Hall | at Ypres, 40e view of the bridge and I church (now destroyed) at Dinant, I 50c University of Louvain. ] franc the | Freeing of the Scheldt, depicting the j river and Antwerp Cathedral in the ' distance, 2 francs an allegory of Bel- : gian Congo, an officer liberating slaves under the Belgian flag, 5 francs i King Albert presenting the Royal j Standard to -bis troops at Faroes, 10 J francs portrait of the three Kings of Belgium—Leopold 1., Leopold 11., and ; Albert I.