1969.CUB.01Young Pioneers and Young Communists
Cuba·1969
Unión de Pioneros de Cuba and Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas, 4 April 1969
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1969.CUB.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Cuba (CUB)
- Year
- 1969-04-04
- Event
- Unión de Pioneros de Cuba and Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas, 4 April 1969
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Process
- Offset lithography
- Paper
- Watermarked R de C (República de Cuba)
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Line 12½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 969.4; 969.5
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- CU 1389; CU 1390
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- CU 1458; CU 1459
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- CU 1269; CU 1270
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- CU 1633; CU 1634
History
Cuba issued two commemoratives on 4 April 1969 for the Unión de Pioneros de Cuba and the Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas. The Asociación de Scouts de Cuba had been dissolved after the revolution; the Pioneers, founded in 1961, took the children's outdoor programme, and the UJC the older youth.
The 3 centavo, inscribed UNION DE PIONEROS DE CUBA, shows Pioneers in blue neckerchiefs at a table and at the salute, a tented camp and a red flag behind them, and the UPC emblem with the motto SEREMOS COMO EL CHE. The 13 centavo, inscribed UNION DE JOVENES COMUNISTAS, is a montage of a militiaman with a rifle, field workers, a student at a desk, and the UJC star bearing ESTUDIO, TRABAJO, FUSIL. Both are offset lithographed, 44 × 28 mm, line perforated 12½, on paper watermarked R de C. Printings were 1,130,000 of the 3 centavo and 630,000 of the 13 centavo. Sources give no designer or printer.