Baden-Powell medallion — 2 fr
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.LUX.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of Scouting
1957.LUX.01· piece 1 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Luxembourg (LUX)- Year / date
- 1957-06-17
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 2 fr
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Olive-green and red-brown
- 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
- Sam Hartz
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé en Zonen
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 11¾ × 11¼
- Printing
- Recess
- Size
- 31.3 x 40.4 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LU 324
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LU 567
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LU 526
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LU 621
Notes
Baden-Powell in profile within a medallion, the Scout fleur-de-lis and the Luxembourg Scout emblem below. Legend 1857 FONDATEUR DU SCOUTISME 1957 around the medallion, BADEN-POWELL beneath. Engraved, panes of 25. Domfil 957.1. Quantity 1,000,000 (SOSOW).
Series history
Luxembourg issued two commemoratives on 17 June 1957 for the fiftieth anniversary of world Scouting and the centenary of Baden-Powell's birth. Domfil catalogues the pair as 957.1/2.
Both carry the same portrait: Baden-Powell in Scout hat, half-length in a laurel-footed medallion, printed in red-brown against a frame of solid colour — olive-green on the 2 francs, violet on the 2.50. The legend 1857 FONDATEUR DU SCOUTISME 1957 curves around the medallion and BADEN-POWELL runs beneath it, with LUXEMBOURG across the foot. The two values differ in the badges flanking the face value: the Scout emblems on the 2 francs, and on the 2.50 the cross-and-trefoil of the Lëtzebuerger Guiden a Scouten beside the world Guide trefoil.
Sam Hartz designed the pair and Joh. Enschedé en Zonen engraved it in panes of 25 — the same Haarlem house that produced the Netherlands Antilles centenary set four months earlier. SOSOW records 1,000,000 of the 2 francs against 415,000 of the 2.50, which makes the Guide value the harder of the two.
Further references are Michel LU 567–568, Yvert LU 526–527, Stanley Gibbons LU 621–622 and Unificato 526/527.