Gerpinnes (BE)

Gerpinnes (pronunciation: ​[ʒɛʁ.pin]) is a Walloon municipality (12,660 inhabitants end 2017) located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. Every year at Whitsun, a large procession is organised in honour of Saint Rolendis (Sainte Rolende). Participants are dressed as Napoleonic soldiers.

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Postal history

The GERPINNES post office opened on 27 March 1860. It used a Distribution code 100 with vertical bars (before 1864), and 146 with points before 1874.

Postmarks after 1950

Postal code since 1969: 6280

DC in 1990

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Baudouin period

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Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

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Albert I period

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Leopold II period

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Leopold I period

Distribution 100 on the 1858 issue.

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Covers

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