Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1959.GIN.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Guinea (GIN)
- Year
- 1959-10-02
- Event
- Pionniers de Guinée
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Printer
- E. A. Wright Bank Note Co., Philadelphia
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 12
Catalog numbers
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- GN 188/189
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- GN 24/25
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- GN 21/22
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- GN 222/223
History
Guinea issued two commemoratives on 2 October 1959 for the Pionniers de Guinée, the national Pioneer youth movement. Both stamps show the same flag-raising: three uniformed figures stand at attention before a tall pole from which the national flag — vertical stripes of red, yellow and green — is being hoisted; a long building and trees stand behind, under a sky graded from red to yellow. The stamps are inscribed POSTES and RÉPUBLIQUE DE GUINÉE. E. A. Wright Bank Note Co. of Philadelphia printed them by offset lithography, perforated 12; the imprint E. A. WRIGHT BANK NOTE CO. PHILA. runs under the country tablet. The 50 franc has a purple roof and a purple country bar; the 100 franc a blue building and a dark blue country bar. Sources give no designer.