BELGIUM 

   = Understood to be a current stamp printer.    = company still believed to exist.

 First postage stamp issued: 1849
Stamp printing for this country is primarily done by:Algeme Werkplaats (Belgium).

Algemene Werkplaats van het Zagel, Malines.
English language translation of name: Stamp Printing Office.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1849 for Belgium.
Main printing process(es): Litho, die-cut, recess, gravure

The State Printing Office of Belgium initially produced its output from the Brussels Northern railway station, where it stayed from 1848 until 1868. They subsequently moved to Mechelin, a location that they are still at, albeit in different premises to their initial one.
    Their first foreign stamp commission was the Irish 1995 Fontenoy set, a commemoration that Belgium also took part in.
    A Certified Security Printer with the scope of designing and producing postage stamps and other franking stamps as well as security marks for the national Post and other international private and governmental organizations; as well as promoting, selling and distributing these postage stamps, franking stamps, First Day Covers and First day Sheets and other collector items for philatelists.

Atelier Ceysens, Brussels.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1972 for Senegal.


Chalot-Deheneffe SA, Brussels.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].

[Etablissements de Schutter Photogravure], Malines.
This company has often been credited with printing photogravure stamps for Belgium. They have not printed, but have engraved the cylinders used by the printers at Malines.

Gouweloos Frères, Brussels.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1879 (Railway Parcel stamps) for Belgium.

Imprimerie Belge de Securité S.A., Brussels.
Founded: 1953.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].

At the time of it founding, the President was none other than P A Waterlow, of Waterlow and Sons Limited fame, the company being a subsidiary of the London-based organisation. Much emphasis in their inaugural brochure focussed on the rotary direct plate process and included samples of their work.

Imprimerie Dereume, Brussels.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1970 for Central African Empire.

Institut de Gravure, Brussels.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1939 (Railway Parcel Stamps) for Belgium.

Imprimerie-Drukkerij SA, Brussels.
Abbreviation known by: IPM.
Founded: 1890.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1965 [who for?].

IPM produce a range of non-security printed items, including folders, brochures, periodicals, posters, barcode labels and mailers. On the security printing front, they generate passports, raffle tickets, cash vouchers, shares and bonds, cheques and, of course, postage stamps.

[J. Malvaux], Brussels.
This company has often been credited with printing photogravure stamps for Belgium. They have not printed, but have engraved the cylinders used by the printers at Malines.

[P. P. G. de Schutter], [Where?].
This company has often been credited with printing photogravure stamps for Belgium. They have not printed, but have engraved the cylinders used by the printers at Malines.

Sip-Catoir, Brussels.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1929 for Belgium.

Verschueren, Antwerp
Based in the twaalfmaandenstr, Verschueren printed during the first world war  two series of stamps   10/1914 nr 123-123-125 and 126-127-128  of the official Belgium catalogue. Later in war the printer began to make forgeries by the millions which are found all over the world. Of the real stamps, they made very little, just tens of thousands of each.

  Page updated 01 September 2008. .  All material Copyright  © 2000-Date Glenn H Morgan FRPSL.