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Stamps (1)

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Stamps and first day covers displayed on this page were issued to mark the bicentenary of Berlioz’s birth.

Stamp issued in Belgium

The Belgian Postage Stamps and Philately Department issued this stamp on 22 February 2003 (see also Bicentenary Celebrations 4).

This first-day cover card bears the signature of the designer of the stamp, Eddie Van Hoef.

This first-day sheet was issued on 24 February 2003.

First-day cover postcard

Three first- day covers issued by Britain’s Royal Mail on 4 November 2003

 Stamp issued in the Principality of Monaco

The English translation of the text around the sheet reads: 200^th anniversary of the birth of French musician Hector Berlioz; and the line on the bottom: Principality of Monaco.

See also Berlioz 10-franc note in Coins and banknotes.

Stamp issued in Romania

See also Une matinée chez Liszt, painted by Josef Kriehuber when Berlioz was on his first visit to Vienna in 1845.

200th Birthday of Berlioz 
Stamp issued in Guiné-Bissau

Stamp issued in São Tomé and Príncipe

This stamp is embedded in a card showing Berlioz as a young man in1832 and then in 1864.

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