Lord Baden-Powell — 7½ + 2½ c
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.ANT.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of Scouting and the Baden-Powell centenary
1957.ANT.01· piece 2 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Netherlands Antilles (ANT)- Year / date
- 1957-02-22
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 7½ + 2½ c
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity issue
- Colors
- Blue-green
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- Designer
- Pijke Koch, after the portrait by David Jagger
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé en Zonen
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13¾ × 13
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 38 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.2
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AN B29
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AN 54
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AN 247
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- AN 356
Notes
Bust of Baden-Powell in Scout hat within a laurel wreath, dates 1907–1957, fleur-de-lis in each corner. Domfil 957.2. Quantity 188,000 (SOSOW). Valid for postage until 31 December 1958.
Series history
The Netherlands Antilles issued three semi-postals at Curaçao on 22 February 1957 — Baden-Powell's birthday — for the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting and the centenary of his birth. Domfil catalogues the set as 957.1/3, recording all three designs as «Lord Baden-Powell».
The three values share one design in different colours: a bust of Baden-Powell in Scout hat inside a laurel wreath, NED. ANTILLEN above and BADEN POWELL below, the dates 1907 and 1957 flanking the wreath and a fleur-de-lis in each corner. Pijke Koch drew it after David Jagger's portrait of the Chief Scout. The values are 6 + 1½ cents yellow-ochre (Domfil 957.1, Scott AN B28), 7½ + 2½ cents blue-green (957.2, Scott AN B29) and 15 + 5 cents red (957.3, Scott AN B30).
Joh. Enschedé en Zonen printed them in photogravure, perforated 13¾ × 13. SOSOW records 188,000 of each value, and the stamps stayed valid for postage until 31 December 1958. Further references are Michel AN 53–55, Yvert AN 246–248 and Stanley Gibbons AN 355–357. The three values are catalogued here in rising face-value order.