Flyer with six cancelled Belgium stamps commemorating disabilities

Stamp, Postage

Accession Number: 2017.10.6

Description: Series of six 'handicapped child" series postage stamps, with cancellations on September 22, 1962, on a commemorative flyer; stamps feature reading braille, using an arithmetic slate, testing hearing, child in leg braces with a ball, child walking with four-legged canes, and two seated children in leg braces playing ball; the flyer is titled, "L'Enfant Handicape" and text is printed in French.

Height: 8.25

Width: 6

Date Made: 1962

Place of Origin: Belgium

Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2017.10

Subjects: Braille Postage stamps

Material: Paper

Updated: 06/28/2021