1977.BHS.016th Caribbean Scout Jamboree
Bahamas·1977
6th Caribbean Scout Jamboree, Kingston, Jamaica
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1977.BHS.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Bahamas (BHS)
- Year
- 1977-09-27
- Event
- 6th Caribbean Scout Jamboree, Kingston, Jamaica
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- Harrison Studios
- Printer
- John Waddington Security Print Ltd.
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾
- Panes
- 50 stamps (2 × 25, gutter pairs)
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 977.11; 977.12
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BS 410; BS 411
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BS 418; BS 419
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BS 408; BS 409
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BS 498; BS 499
History
The Bahamas issued two commemoratives at Nassau on 27 September 1977 for the 6th Caribbean Scout Jamboree. Each stamp is landscape, 45 × 29 mm, inscribed 6th CARIBBEAN SCOUT JAMBOREE and BAHAMAS, with a blue Scout fleur-de-lis in a rope circle. Harrison Studios designed the pair. John Waddington printed it by offset lithography, comb perforated 13¾, in panes of 50 as two panes of 25 with a gutter, on paper watermarked with a multiple Crown and Block CA, diagonal, sideways.
The 16 cent pairs a night camp-fire — some of the Scouts wear white Sea Scout caps — with a Scout sitting in a pole shelter under trees. The 21 cent has three water vignettes: a small sailboat, a rowing boat and kayaks.