Egil Danielsen, Norway — 3 + 5 c
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.DOM.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Baden-Powell centenary — Olympic overprints (5¢)
1957.DOM.01· piece 3 of 12 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Dominican Republic (DOM)- Year / date
- 1957-09-09
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 3 + 5 c
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity issue
- Colors
- Multicoloured
- 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.
- Line 14
- Printing
- Photogravure, overprint engraved
- Size
- 56 x 56 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.40
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- DO 603
Notes
Egil Danielsen, Norway — javelin, with the national flag, overprinted in red-orange with the Baden-Powell centenary emblem and a 5 c surtax. Domfil 957.40.
Series history
The Dominican Republic marked the centenary of Baden-Powell's birth on 9 September 1957 by overprinting its set for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Each of the eight diamond-shaped stamps shows a gold medallist beside the flag of their country, and each received a red-orange overprint carrying the centenary emblem and a 5 centavo surtax. Domfil catalogues the eight as 957.38/45.
The athletes run, in rising face value: Lars Hall of Sweden, Betty Cuthbert of Australia, Egil Danielsen of Norway, Alain Mimoun of France, Norman Read of New Zealand, Robert Morrow of the United States, Chris Brasher of Great Britain and Adhemar Ferreira da Silva of Brazil. The last three are airmail values. Four souvenir sheets follow the stamps here. Domfil treats them as issues of their own, 957.46 for the sheet with the Olympic flag at its centre and 957.47 for the one with the Melbourne 1956 gold medal, each listed perforated and imperforate; Michel calls them blocks 9A, 9B, 10A and 10B. The stamps within the sheets carry the 5 centavo surcharge, which is what places all four with this series rather than with the 2 centavo one.
A caution on sources: the same Olympic base stamps were overprinted twice for the centenary, with different surtaxes. This series is the 5 centavo one, Michel 601–608, which Colnect and Domfil both record. A parallel overprint with a 2 centavo surtax, Michel 593–600, was issued the same day; Scott separates the two by adding a letter to the numbers of this set. SOSOW's page for the Dominican Republic describes that other issue, which is why the link is recorded there and not here.
Twelve pieces in all, ordered by ascending face value with the souvenir sheets last, and all in the collection.
