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| General Description : | Lieven Gevaert (Antwerp, 28 May 1868 – The Hague, 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist. His father died when he was only three years old. He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods. In 1894, he founded the company Gevaert & Co, which in 1920, was transformed to N.V Gevaert Photo-producten, merged in 1964 with Agfa AG to become Gevaert-Agfa NV and later Agfa-Gevaert NV. Already at an early age he felt socially responsible and wanted to advance the status of Dutch in Belgium. His personal ideas were strongly influenced by the social encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and the writings of Lodewijk De Raet. He supported several Flemish initiatives as a manager, but stayed outside of politics. His main objectives were the introduction of Dutch as a business language, and the foundation of a sound Dutch-speaking education as a means to establish a Flemish elite. When in 1926, the Vlaamsch Handelsverbond (Vlaams Economisch Verbond, VEV) was founded, Gevaert was its first chairman. Later he founded the Sint-Lievenscollege in Antwerp. Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain (20 September 1852 - 22 July 1929) was a wealthy Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. |
| Face value | 4 + 2 Francs |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1062 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number BE B604 Yvert et Tellier BE 1018 Stanley Gibbons BE 1609 AFA number BE 1080 Belgium BE 1018 Unificato BE 1018 |
| Stamp colour | dark violet blue |
| Stamp use | Semi Postal stamp |
| Print run | 258.311 |
| Issue date | 08/06/1957 |
| Designer | Edouard Meert / Jean Malvaux |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 27.00 mm |
| Width | 39.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
