40 + 10 Centimes 1961 - 400th Anniversary of Archbishopry Mechelen - Cardinal Granvelle


40 + 10 Centimes 1961 - 400th Anniversary of Archbishopry Mechelen - Cardinal Granvelle
Added by Bart Perdieus
General Description : Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (20 August 1517 – 21 September 1586), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe; "the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century".

He was created the first archbishop of Mechelen and became a cardinal in 1561.
Face value 40 + 10 Centimes
Catalog code (Michel) BE 1248
Catalog code Stamp Number BE B696 Yvert et Tellier BE 1188 Stanley Gibbons BE 1784 AFA number BE 1267 Belgium BE 1188 Unificato BE 1188
Stamp colour multicolor
Stamp use Semi Postal stamp
Print run 774.664
Issue date 29/07/1961
Designer Edouard Meert / Leon Janssens
Print technique recess
Perforation 11 1/2
Height 39.00 mm
Width 28.00 mm
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