Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1980.NIC.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Nicaragua (NIC)
- Year
- 1980-09-26
- Event
- Year of Literacy
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
Production
- Designer
- G. L. Vasarhelyi
- Printer
- Format International Security Printers Ltd.
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13½ / Imperforate
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 980.65/66
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NI BL120/121
History
Nicaragua overprinted, in black and silver, the two 1975 Nordjamb 75 airmail souvenir sheets, released on 26 September 1980. Each sheet is lettered 1980 AÑO DE LA ALFABETIZACION and carries a silver International Year of the Child emblem; the original NORDJAMB-75 badge remains in the margin. Five thousand four hundred of each sheet were issued. G. L. Vasarhelyi designed the underlying sheets; Format International Security Printers printed them by offset lithography, 126 × 101 mm.
The perforated sheet holds two stamps: a Scout cooking at camp, 2 córdobas, and two Scouts in canoe 26, 3 córdobas. The margin shows Scouts by a tent before a lake and mountains, and is lettered DECIMOCUARTO CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE NIÑOS EXPLORADORES.
The second sheet is imperforate. Its stamps show a Scout with a flag at Campo Escuela Nacional El Coyotepe, 2 córdobas, and Scouts at a night campfire, 3 córdobas. The margin is a sunset over water with a rider and pack animal, lettered 14º CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE NIÑOS EXPLORADORES.