1978.MAR.01Pan-Arab Scout Festivities
Morocco·1978
Pan-Arab Scout Festivities, Rabat
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1978.MAR.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Morocco (MAR)
- Year
- 1978-09-26
- Event
- Pan-Arab Scout Festivities, Rabat
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- Ikken
- Printer
- Heraclio Fournier, Vitoria
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾ × 13
- Panes
- 25 stamps
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 978.15
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- MA 423
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- MA 892
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- MA 818
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- MA 507
History
Morocco issued a 0,40 dirham commemorative on 26 September 1978 for the Pan-Arab Scout festivities at Rabat. The stamp is lettered FESTIVITES SCOUTES PANARABES AU MAROC / RABAT 1978 and ROYAUME DU MAROC, with المملكة المغربية and a Arabic heading naming the Arab Scout festivals in Morocco and Rabat 1978. The designer’s name IKKEN appears at lower left.
A stylized green tree stands before a large red sun; an orange bird flies at left, a red tent and a Scout badge (yellow fleur-de-lis on red, green star, blue reef knot) sit at the foot of the tree.
Ikken designed the stamp. Heraclio Fournier of Vitoria printed it by photogravure, 30 × 40 mm, comb perforated 13¾ × 13, in panes of 25. Two hundred and three thousand copies were printed.