Boy Scouts' Jamboree Christmas 1939 — sheet of ten tourist seals
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1939.NZL.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Boy Scouts' Jamboree Christmas
1939.NZL.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
New Zealand (NZL)- Year / date
- 1939
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- No face value
- Format
- Mini sheet
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Multicoloured
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Printer
- Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Perforated
Notes
Complete sheet of ten perforated seals, two rows of five, each inscribed BOY SCOUTS' JAMBOREE Christmas 1939 over a New Zealand tourist design and a Government Tourist Offices panel. Designs: Blue Baths Rotorua; Wonderland; Chateau Tongariro; Marlborough Sounds; Sportsman's Paradise; Dart Valley; Mt. Cook; Mitre Peak; Mt. Egmont; Māori chief. Imprint Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd for the N.Z. Govt. Publicity Dept.
Series history
Ten multicoloured publicity labels printed for New Zealand's Government Tourist Offices and inscribed across every design BOY SCOUTS' JAMBOREE Christmas 1939. They carry no face value and had no postal validity: cinderella seals advertising the New Zealand Centennial Boy Scouts' Jamboree that was planned for December 1939 and January 1940 at Heretaunga, near Wellington.
The sheet is two rows of five perforated labels. Each stamp shows a New Zealand tourist subject above a dark panel lettered with the place name, NEW ZEALAND, GOVERNMENT TOURIST OFFICES, and a line of overseas office cities ending with WELLINGTON. Reading left to right and top to bottom the designs are: Blue Baths, Rotorua; Wonderland (a woman in Māori dress beside a geothermal pool); Chateau Tongariro; Marlborough Sounds; Sportsman's Paradise (a marlin rising beside a fishing launch); Dart Valley; Mt. Cook; Mitre Peak; Mt. Egmont (Taranaki); and a Māori chief in feather cloak and facial moko. The bottom margin of the sheet reads PRINTED FOR THE N.Z. GOVT. PUBLICITY DEPT. BY COULLS SOMERVILLE WILKIE LTD.
The jamboree itself was cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. Organisers announced in September 1939 that the gathering would not take place: the Heretaunga camp site was no longer available, technical help and supplies could not be secured, and staff who had been preparing the camp were needed elsewhere. The seals remain as publicity for an event that never opened.