1952.AUS.012nd Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree
Australia·1952
Commemorative for the 2nd Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree, Five Dock (Sydney area)
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1952.AUS.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Australia (AUS)
- Year
- 1952-11-19
- Event
- Commemorative for the 2nd Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree, Five Dock (Sydney area)
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- F. D. Manley (original 1948 design)
- Printer
- Note Printing Branch, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Process
- Engraving (recess)
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 14 × 14¾
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 952.3
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AU 249
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AU 222
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AU 189
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- AU 254
History
On 19 November 1952 Australia issued a 3½ penny brown commemorative for the 2nd Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree, associated with Five Dock (Sydney region). Domfil catalogues the stamp as 952.3 under «Pacific Jamboree», motif «Scout».
The design reuses the Scout-in-uniform portrait created by F. D. Manley for the 1948 Pan-Pacific Jamboree stamp (Scott AU 216), adapted to the new face value and colour for the second regional jamboree four years later. Production details match the earlier recess issue: Note Printing Branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, sheets of 160 (two panes of 80 with gutter pairs), comb perforation 14 × 14¾, watermark small crown over C A. SOSOW records a print run of 98,772,000. Catalogue cross-references: Scott AU 249, Michel AU 222, Yvert AU 189, Stanley Gibbons AU 254.
Together with the 1948 2½d scarlet, this stamp documents Australia’s consecutive Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree commemoratives of the late 1940s–early 1950s — pure Scouts-on-Stamps postage rather than a semi-postal or private label. Only the single 3½d value is catalogued as the series piece (sheet SCOUT-1952-AUS-01.1).