Forest - Vorst is one of the 19 municipalities (55,014 inhabitants in 2015) located in the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. The FOREST post-office opened on 27 April 1864. It used a postal code 138 with points before 1870. The sub-office FOREST (STALLE) opened on 1 October 1874, renamed FOREST-EST (24 November 1880) and FOREST-LEZ-BRUXELLES (19 November 1894).
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Postmarks after 1950
Postal code 1190.
Baudouin period
Circle FOREST(BRUX.) . VORST(BRUS.) 1 in 1952.
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DC BRUXELLES 19 BRUSSEL in 1968.
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Railways postmarks
There are (at least) two stations. The Forest-Midi dates from 1862.
Railway FOREST EST - VORST OOST in 1952.
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Frame at FOREST-MIDI - VORST-ZUID in 1956.
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Postmarks before 1950
Leopold III period
Railway FOREST-MIDI 4 in 1937.
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Railway FOREST-MIDI 5 in 1938, with violet pencil mark.
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Albert I period
FOREST (BRUX.) 2 VORST (BRUSS.) in 1925
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FOREST Railway Postmark, issue 1923.
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Leopold II period
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FOREST-LEZ-BRUXELLES in 1897.
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