Lotnumber: 19
BRUXELLES. Action de Capital de F500. green, blue. #600. No 034 (19). Trimmed right border due to coupon cutting, but not into the printed part of the share. Folds and a few pin- and cancellation holes. Formed 1911 to create a panorama of the battle of Waterloo, on land at the foot of the Butte du Lion. The panorama still exists today, in the same building. The mound with the lion is on the exact spot where the British army under Wellington, with the Prussians under Blücher, finally killed off Napoleon's ambitions, in 1815.
Themes: PHOTO & PANORAMA
BELGIUM
Province: BRABANT
Date: 10 May 1911
Quality: VF
Startprice: € 200