Sheet of stamps Carol I with beard 50 bani red, Romanian Post, 1872

Sheet of stamps Carol I with beard 50 bani red, Romanian Post, 1872 is held by National Museum of Romanian History, dated 1872. Museum description: Sheet, composed of 100 imperforate stamps, blue and red, uncancelled, depicting the oval effigy of Prince Carol I.

Stamp 85 is missing. Inscriptions: top - CINCIZECI, left side - POȘTA, right side - ROMÂNĂ, bottom 50 bani 50. Missing 3/5 cm (approximately the size of a stamp) from the right side. Cut, about 1 cm on the left side of the last stamp. Slight curling of the paper. Spots of various origins, yellowing of the paper. On the reverse, traces of original gum. The upper corners show traces of glue and material from attachment to a mount.

Stamp one shows traces of thinning. Stamp 84 has a horizontal cut on the margin, along one third of its length, and stamp 100 has a vertical cut on the margin along half its height. It is one of the first Romanian stamps with international franking validity, as a first step toward the recognition of national independence The museum record gives measurements width: 34; height: 21.3; maker recorded: Romanian Post. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.