1978.NRU.0170th Anniversary of Scouting
Nauru·1978
70th Anniversary of the first Boy Scout troop
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1978.NRU.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Nauru (NRU)
- Year
- 1978-12-01
- Event
- 70th Anniversary of the first Boy Scout troop
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- John Charles
- Printer
- Format International Security Printers Ltd.
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13 × 14
- Panes
- 20 stamps (10 × 2, gutter)
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 978.28/30
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NR 188/190
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NR 185/187
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NR 181/183
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- NR 197/199
History
Nauru issued three commemoratives on 1 December 1978 for seventy years of Scouting. Each stamp is landscape, 47 × 33 mm, lettered Republic of Nauru, with a profile of Baden-Powell in a Scout hat, a white star marked 70, and a red fleur-de-lis.
The 20 cents shows a young Scout in a white shirt and green shorts giving the Scout salute, a hut and a yellow flag behind him. The 30 cents shows a Scout on the shore in a white shirt, red neckerchief and a patterned wrap, a palm at left. The 50 cents shows a Scout with a pack and staff before a tent and a palm.
John Charles designed the set. Format International Security Printers lithographed it, comb perforated 13 × 14, in panes of 20 as two rows of ten with a gutter. One hundred and fifty thousand of each value were printed. The issue was withdrawn from sale on 31 August 1979.