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Bazil Assan

BB18-0201
ID Number: BB18-0201 Description: Bazil Gh. Assan (Polar Researchers) Country or State: Romania Year: 23.07.1986 Face Value: 1 L - Romanian leu Series: Polar Researchers Designer: Ștefan Avram Perforation: comb 13¼ Printing: Photogravure Di ...Read more



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ID Number: BB18-0201
Description: Bazil Gh. Assan (Polar Researchers)
Country or State: Romania
Year: 23.07.1986
Face Value: 1 L - Romanian leu
Series: Polar Researchers
Designer: Ștefan Avram
Perforation: comb 13¼
Printing: Photogravure
Dimensions (B x H): 55 x 43 mm
Emission: 1,500,000
Catalog Number: Michel RO 4282
Stamp Number RO 3394
Yvert et Tellier RO 3691
Stanley Gibbons RO 5059

Basil G. Assan (born 1860, d. 1918 in Montreux, Switzerland) was a Romanian engineer and explorer, member of the Romanian Geographic Society, the first Romanian to travel around the Earth.
In 1897, he traveled to the Northern Poles, the Bear Island and the Svalbard Archipelago, where he also made geological research on flora and fauna. In 1899 he made a trip on the route Constantinople - Alexandria - Ceylon - Nagasaki - Tokyo - Yokohama - San Francisco - New York - London, being the first travel of a Romanian around the world.
He was the owner of the car with no. 1 in Bucharest.