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1966.EGY.017th Pan-Arab Jamboree, Libya
Egypt·1966
7th Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree, Libya
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Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1966.EGY.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Egypt (EGY)
- Year
- 1966-08-10
- Event
- 7th Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree, Libya
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
Production
- Printer
- Postal Authority Printing House
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 11½ × 11
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 966.24
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- EG C110
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- EG 835
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- EG PA101
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- EG 892
History
Egypt issued a single 20 millième airmail stamp at Cairo on 10 August 1966 for the 7th Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree in Libya. The stamp is inscribed UAR and AIR MAIL, with the caption 7th PAN ARAB JAMBOREE - LIBYA along the lower margin. The olive-green design shows a Scout campsite: a winged Scout fleur-de-lis at left, two Scouts by a cooking fire, tents, a flagpole, and a jet airliner above.
668,700 copies were printed, in panes of 50. Postal Authority Printing House; photogravure; perforated 11½ × 11; watermark of multiple large eagles. Sources do not name the designer. The jamboree venue in Libya is given as Good Daim in some accounts and as Tripoli in others; the stamp itself names only Libya.