Shah as pathfinder — 75 dinar
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1950.IRN.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 31st birthday of Mohammad Reza Shah
1950.IRN.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Iran (IRN)- Year / date
- 1950-10-26
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 75 d
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Brown and black
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 12½
- Printing
- Recess
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 950.18
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- IR 937
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- IR 828
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- IR 745
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- IR 947
Notes
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as a pathfinder / Scout. One value of the six-stamp birthday set (Scott 935–940). Recess by Security Bank Note Co., USA, perf 12½. Domfil 950.18.
Series history
On 26 October 1950 — the 31st birthday of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (born 26 October 1919) — Iran issued a six-value commemorative set (Scott 935–940) printed in recess by the Security Bank Note Company of the United States. Domfil catalogues the Scout-related value under «25th Anniversary of Sovereignty» (the Pahlavi dynasty had been founded in 1925) as number 950.18, motif «Scout» / Explorador.
Only one design in the set is scouting: the 75 dinar brown and black portrait of the Shah as a pathfinder / Scout (Colnect: «Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavī as a pathfinder»; Scott IR 937 / Michel IR 828 / Yvert IR 745 / Stanley Gibbons IR 947). Perforation is 12½. SOSOW lists first-day place as Teheran and notes that this is one stamp of the six-value birthday set.
For Scouts-on-Stamps collectors the interest is the Shah shown in pathfinder / Scout character on a national birthday issue — a political commemorative that deliberately uses Scout imagery for the young monarch — rather than a jamboree or youth-organisation semi-postal. Only this 75 d value is catalogued as the series piece (sheet SCOUT-1950-IRA-01.1).
ATA 1964 describes the six birthday stamps as portraying Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in various uniforms and at various ages, each with a black vignette and a different coloured border; the Scout-relevant value shows the Shah in Scouter’s uniform (75 dinars, brown and black). Engraving is credited to the Security Bank Note Co., Philadelphia, U.S.A.