1968.HTI.01Pro Culture surcharge
Haiti·1968
Pro Culture — National Education airmail surcharge
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1968.HTI.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Haiti (HTI)
- Year
- 1968-07-04
- Event
- Pro Culture — National Education airmail surcharge
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity airmail · Charity issue
Production
- Printer
- Local overprint (base: Giesecke, Germany)
- Process
- Offset lithography (base); local overprint
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 11½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 968.29
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- HT CB59
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- HT 959
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- HT PA377
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- HT 1075
History
Haiti released at Port-au-Prince on 4 July 1968 an airmail semi-postal for a Pro Culture campaign, produced by locally surcharging stamps of the December 1967 National Education series. The Scout-theme value is the 1.00 + 0.10 gourde: the 1.00 gourde Scout-emblem airmail is overprinted CULTURE with a +0.10 charity surcharge. The design shows a white fleur-de-lis with a palm and an ÊTRE PRÊT banner inside a green circle, a reef knot at left and three Scouts below, under REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI and POSTE AERIENNE. It is the Scout-bearing value of a three-stamp Pro Culture surcharge set; the companion values do not show Scout designs. The base stamp was printed by Giesecke in Germany in offset lithography, perforated Comb 11½; the surcharge was applied locally. Sources differ on whether the surcharge is printed in black or in red.