0,50 Euro 2005 - 200th Anniversary of H. C. Andersen - The Princess and the Pea


0,50 Euro 2005 - 200th Anniversary of  H. C. Andersen - The Princess and the Pea
Added by Bart Perdieus
General Description : The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are real princesses. One stormy night (always a harbinger of either a life-threatening situation or the opportunity for a romantic alliance in Andersen's stories),[1] a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince's castle. She claims to be a princess, so the prince's mother decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea in the bed she is offered for the night, covered by 20 mattresses and 20 featherbeds. In the morning the guest tells her hosts—in a speech colored with double entendres—that she endured a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed; which she is certain has bruised her. The prince rejoices. Only a real princess would have the sensitivity to feel a pea through such a quantity of bedding. The two are married, and the pea is placed in the Royal Museum.
Face value 0,50 Euro
Catalog code (Michel) BE 3502I
Catalog code Stamp Number BE 2113a Yvert et Tellier BE 3439 Stanley Gibbons BE 3949 Belgium BE 3454 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE094.05 Unificato BE 3446A
Stamp colour multicolour
Stamp use Booklet stamp
Issue date 08/10/2005
Designer Frédéric Thiry
Print technique photogravure
Perforation Serpentine Die Cut 10
Height 25.00 mm
Width 30.00 mm
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