13 September 1958

EUROPA as an organisation is nowadays a given fact. During 1958, it was already the third year that Europa (1956) provided a common design stamp issued through a number of countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Saar).

I know that a lot of philatelic material exists with the set of official European stamp set of 1958. However, I am aiming to show here the items with the belgian stamp set as I try in general for this site.

There is no Official Expo 58 cover that exist except the ones designed for the official stamp set. If somebody can provide me a scan of such a cover with the EXPO 598 stamps on it, please contact me.

So of all the philatelic items, I have, none are official, but all show at least the officia Expo 58 stamps cancelled with the official European cancellation, which are in general hard to find. The first cover I am showing here, are depicting the whole set of 6 Expo 58 stamps, plus the two Official European stamps as well as an official Expo 58 label.

Two Official cards.

Large Expo 58 cover with different cancellations.

Official Maxicard Expo 58 cover with one official EXPO 58 stamps and one official European stamp.