Pioneers planting trees — 55 bani
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1954.ROU.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Month of the Forest
1954.ROU.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Romania (ROU)- Year / date
- 1954-04-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 55 b
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Blue-violet
- 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.
- Comb 13¾
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 28 × 33 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 954.3
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- RO 985
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- RO 1465
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- RO 1338
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- RO 2323
Notes
Pioneers planting saplings on a hillside, heading LUNA PĂDURII. Watermark RPR endless rows. Domfil 954.3 «Planting a tree». Print run 2,000,000.
Series history
Romania issued its Luna Pădurii — Month of the Forest — commemoratives on 1 April 1954, the campaign that each spring mobilised schools and youth organisations for reafforestation work. One value belongs to the Scout theme and is catalogued here: the 55 bani blue-violet, Domfil 954.3 «Plantando un árbol / Planting a tree».
Leonida Nazarov designed it and Fabrica de Timbre in Bucharest printed it in photogravure, 28 × 33 mm, comb perforation 13¾, on paper watermarked RPR endless rows, in a run of 2,000,000. The design shows young Pioneers at work on a hillside — a boy breaking the ground with a mattock while a girl in Pioneer uniform carries a bundle of saplings, with more planters and a cart on the slope behind — under the heading R.P. ROMANA / LUNA PĂDURII.
Tree planting was becoming a fixed motif of Romanian Pioneer philately: the 35 bani of the fourth-anniversary set issued eleven months earlier (Domfil 953.9) had shown the same activity with the slogan about beautifying the homeland with gardens and orchards. Catalogue references are Michel RO 1465, Scott RO 985, Yvert RO 1338 and Stanley Gibbons RO 2323.
