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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | The Bloodhound is a large breed of dog bred specifically to track human beings. Originally used for hunting deer and wild boar, it was created about AD 1000 by the monks of the St. Hubert Monastery in Belgium. Consequently, one of its other names is the St. Hubert Hound. It is a scenthound, tracking by smell, as opposed to a sighthound, which tracks using vision. It is famed for its ability to discern human odors even days later, over great distances, even across water. Its extraordinarily keen sense of smell is combined with a strong and tenacious tracking instinct, producing the ideal scent hound, and it is used by police and law enforcement all over the world to track escaped prisoners, missing people, lost children and lost pets. |
| Face value | 0,42 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 3116 |
| Catalog code | Belgian Stamps Catalog BE-3066, Yvert et Tellier BE 3061 Stanley Gibbons BE 3689 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE017.02 Unificato BE 3062 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 5.902.900 |
| Issue date | 20/04/2002 |
| Designer | Christian Jacot |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 28.00 mm |
| Width | 41.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
