Four designs for stamps of the Belgian Congo Quatre projets de timbres du Congo belge

The Congo Free State had published stamps from 1888, with images of its sovereign, King Leopold II. From 1908, when it became a colony and took the name of the Belgian Congo, the stamps became very varied. These themes included Africans from different ethnic groups, wild animals, landscapes, elephants' tusks or the collection of palm-oil, the native police, African tribal art, reminiscences of anti-slavery struggle, and events in the lives of the Belgian royal family.