1968.IRN.01Girl Guides National Jamboree — Empress Farah
Iran·1968
Girl Guides' National Jamboree (Great Camp of the Iranian Girl Guides), Tehran, 1968
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1968.IRN.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Iran (IRN)
- Year
- 1968-06-24
- Event
- Girl Guides' National Jamboree (Great Camp of the Iranian Girl Guides), Tehran, 1968
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Printer
- Parliament Printing Office
- Process
- Lithography
- Paper
- Watermarked Persian inscription and coat of arms in circle
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 10½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 968.18; 968.19
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- IR 1478; IR 1479
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- IR 1390; IR 1391
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- IR 1258; IR 1259
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- IR 1543; IR 1544
History
Iran issued two commemoratives at Tehran on 24 June 1968 for the Great Camp of the Iranian Girl Guides, a national jamboree of the girls' movement. Both values show the same portrait of Empress Farah Pahlavi in Girl Guide uniform with neckerchief and woggle, a Girl Guide emblem at upper left, bilingual IRAN and face value at the foot, and vertical English and Persian text naming the Great Camp of Iranian Girl Guides, 1968. The 4 rial is bright violet and dark green-grey; the 6 rial is dark brown and red lilac. The Parliament Printing Office printed the set by lithography on paper watermarked with a Persian inscription and the coat of arms in a circle, perforated 10½. Each value was printed in 400,000 copies.