50th Anniversary of Antigua Girl Guides

Antigua issued four commemoratives and a souvenir sheet at St. John's on 28 October 1981 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Girl Guides on the island. Each stamp is lettered ANTIGUA and 50TH anniversary GIRL GUIDES on a purple panel.

The 10 cents is a portrait of Irene Joshua in a navy Guide shirt and beret, with the World Association flag behind her. The panel is lettered Irene Joshua.

The 50 cents, lettered Campfire Singing, shows four Guides around a fire at night: one with a guitar, one with an accordion, one standing and clapping, and one sitting.

The 90 cents, lettered Sailing, shows two Guides in a small boat with a red, white and blue sail at sunset.

The 2.50 dollars, lettered Animal Tending, shows three Guides with a brown cow; one milks into a pail.

The 5-dollar souvenir sheet, 110 × 85 mm, places a stamp lettered Flag Raising on a scene of four Guides in blue uniforms and yellow ties at two flagpoles — the Antigua and Barbuda flag and the World Association flag — with a palm at the right.

Max Diamond designed the issue. Format International Security Printers printed it by offset lithography, the stamps 43 × 29 mm in panes of 40. Sources give the perforation as comb 14½ or 15; the sheet is harrow perforated 14½ around the stamp.