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Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1974.LSO.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Lesotho (LSO)
- Year
- 1974-02-18
- Event
- Youth and Development
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- H. Granger-Barrett
- Printer
- House of Questa
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾ × 14
- Panes
- 50
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 974.5
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LS 155
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LS 155
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LS 257
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LS 254
History
Lesotho issued a 30 cents commemorative on 18 February 1974, inscribed YOUTH & DEVELOPMENT and Service. It is one value of a five-stamp Youth and Development issue. H. Granger-Barrett designed the stamp; House of Questa printed it by lithography in panes of 50. Seventy thousand copies were printed.
The yellow design is in two panels. At left, young men in green shirts, dark trousers and berets stand in a receding line. At right, two in blue overalls lay a brick wall, watched by a man in a suit. The stamp does not name Scouting, and the uniforms are not identified on the stamp.