Verviers (BE)

Verviers (pronunciation: ​[vɛʁvje]; Walloon: Vervî) is a Walloon municipality (55,198 inhabitants end 2017) located in the Belgian province of Liège. The Verviers municipality includes Ensival, Heusy, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain and Stembert.

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Postal history before 1910

The VERVIERS post office opened before 1830. It used a postal code 123, and 374 with points before 1874. The ENSIVAL post office opened in 1851ca. It used a postal code 175 with bars (before 1864), and 112 with points before 1874. The HEUSY relay opened in 1881. The PETIT-RECHAIN relay opened in 1881 (office in 1883). The STEMBERT relay in 1905.

Postmarks after 1950

Postal codes in 1969: Verviers 4800, Stembert 4801, Heusy 4802, Petit-Rechain 4822, Ensival 4850, Lambermont 4852

Postal codes in 1998 (after the municipalities merge): Verviers, Ensival, Lambermont and Petit-Rechain 4800, Stembert 4801, Heusy 4802

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Meter cancels (all periods)

Meter cancel 1961.

Baudouin period

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Postmarks before 1950

Verviers-Ouest

Railway Postmark in 1921

VERVIERS-OUEST No. 9 in 1922.

Railway Postmark in 1941

Leopold III period

VERVIERS 2 in 19??

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Albert I period

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Verviers 1 in 1914

Michel No. 163, postmarked at "Verviers", 11-04-1921

Circle in 1924.

Leopold II period

Circle

Circle VERVIERS (STATION) in 1883

Circle VERVIERS in 1893.

Hexagonal cancels

Railway Postmark Verviers 1881. Parcel Post.

Railway Hexagonal Cancel in 1884.

Railway Hexagonal Cancel in 1881.

Ensival

Railway Octagonal Cancel in 1882.

Leopold I period

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Perception 123 A.1, Verviers-Annexe, on a 1858 issue. Auction image.

40 c 374 on a 1867 sub-issue.

Covers and cards

Transit railway VERVIERS-COELN red on a 1869 cover from the US (Washington) to Constantinople. Sold 800 SF in 2000.

UPU card from Turkey (now Greece). Arrival circle VERVIERS (STATION) on 22 August 1898.