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1980.AIA.0150th Anniversary of Scouting in Anguilla
Anguilla·1980
50th anniversary of Scouting in Anguilla
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Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1980.AIA.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Anguilla (AIA)
- Year
- 1980-04-16
- Event
- 50th anniversary of Scouting in Anguilla
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- John Lister Ltd.
- Printer
- House of Questa
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13½
- Panes
- 40
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 980.15/16
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AI 387/388
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AI 385/386
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AI 348/349
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- AI 403; AI 405
History
Anguilla overprinted two values of its pictorial definitive series in April 1980 for the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting on the island. A three-line black overprint reads 50th Anniversary / Scouting 1980. The issue day is given as either 11 or 16 April.
The 10 cents shows an American sparrow hawk (Falco sparverius) on a branch; the $2.50 shows manchineel fruit (Hippomane mancinella). Both are inscribed H.M. COMMISSIONER IN ANGUILLA and carry the royal cipher E II R. John Lister Ltd. designed the underlying stamps; House of Questa printed them by offset lithography, in panes of forty (two panes of twenty with a gutter). The perforation gauge is given as 13½ or 14.