1958.ROU.0110th Anniversary of the Education Reform
Romania·1958
Commemorative for the tenth anniversary of the Romanian education reform of 1948
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1958.ROU.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Romania (ROU)
- Year
- 1958-12-20
- Event
- Commemorative for the tenth anniversary of the Romanian education reform of 1948
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- Ion Dumitrana
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 958.65
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- RO 1260
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- RO 1761
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- RO 1616
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- RO 2629
History
Romania issued this 55 bani commemorative on 20 December 1958 for the tenth anniversary of the education reform of August 1948, the law that nationalised the schools and rebuilt the system on the Soviet model. Domfil catalogues it as 958.65 «Corneta / Bugle».
The bright red design shows a Pioneer sounding the bugle beside a comrade holding a book, with a school building behind. Ion Dumitrana drew it — the same designer as the fifth anniversary Pioneer set of 1954 — and it was printed in photogravure, 28 × 33 mm, comb perforation 13¾, without watermark, in a run of 1,000,000.
The bugler is what brings an education-reform stamp into a Scout catalogue. It is the standard Pioneer figure of the Eastern-bloc issues of these years, and Domfil indexes the stamp by that motif rather than by the anniversary it marks: the same reading already applied to the Romanian Pioneer anniversaries from 1950 onwards and to Poland's rally bugler of 1952.
Catalogue references are Scott RO 1260, Michel RO 1761, Yvert RO 1616 and Stanley Gibbons RO 2629.