File:BEL 1958 MiNr1091 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Belgium; 1958; commemorative stamp of the issue "World Exhibition 1958 in Brussels"; stamp motive show a view to the Atomium in Brussels and the exhibition emblem; stamp postmarked in Brussels, 1958
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The "Atomium" is a momument in Laeken near Brussels, erected to the there "World Exhibition 1958". The designer of this monument was the engeneer André Waterkeyn (1917-2005). The construction symbolizes a body-centered cubic crystal structure. Erected was the monument by the architects André and Jean Polak in 1957 at the Heysel-Plateau in Laeken near Brussels.
Stamp: Michel: No. 1091 ; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1008A; Scott: No. 501; AFA: 1108
Color: dark green
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 2 F 50 (= 2.50 Francs)
Postage validity: from 4 February 1958 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp): 24.5 x 35.5 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "La Poste" (Belgium) of the Belgian government
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Public domain This work was first published in Belgium and is in the public domain because its exempt from copyright protection by virtue of the Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights (of June 30, 1994, as amended by the Law of April 3, 1995), enacted 1995. The work meets the following criteria:
  • It is any "official act of the authorities"
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  • The "Atomium" nearby Brussels in 2006
    The "Atomium" nearby Brussels in 2006
Picture description "Atomium" in Brussels
First day of issue
Publisher "La Poste" (Belgium) of the Belgian government
Design Edouard Meert (design),

Léon Janssens (engraving)

Printer "Imprimerie Belge de Securite S.A.", Brussels (probably)
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation 16,381,697 (in sheets à 30 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11½
MICHEL Nr. Belgien, Nr. 1091
SCOTT Nr. Belgium, No. 501

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