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1960.AUS.0150th Anniversary of Girl Guiding
Australia·1960
Golden Jubilee of Guiding in Australia, 1910–1960
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Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1960.AUS.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Australia (AUS)
- Year
- 1960-08-18
- Event
- Golden Jubilee of Guiding in Australia, 1910–1960
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia
- Printer
- Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia
- Process
- Engraving (recess)
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 14½ × 14
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 960.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AU 335
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AU 305
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AU 267
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- AU 334
History
Australia issued a 5 penny commemorative at Brisbane on 18 August 1960 for the fiftieth anniversary of Girl Guiding in Australia.
The design pairs a Girl Guide in beret and trefoil badge with a smaller portrait of Baden-Powell in campaign hat beside her. GOLDEN JUBILEE OF GUIDING 1910–1960 runs across the foot, and a circular Girl Guides jubilee seal ringed by a chain sits at lower right. The stamp is printed in deep ultramarine.
The Note Printing Branch of the Reserve Bank of Australia recess-printed some 66,769,040 copies in panes of eighty, perforated 14½ × 14. Stocks were also perforated with the initials T, GNSW or GV for official government use.