President Somoza — 40 c
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.NIC.01-11- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Centenary of Baden-Powell's birth
1957.NIC.01· piece 11 of 17 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Nicaragua (NIC)- Year / date
- 1957-04-09
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 40 c
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Blue | Brown 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
- Printer
- Austrian State Printing Works
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13½ × 14
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 33 x 27 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.17
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NI C383
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NI 1137
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NI PA354
Notes
President Somoza. Airmail value. Photogravure by the Austrian State Printing Works. Domfil 957.17. Quantity 100,000 (SOSOW).
Series history
Nicaragua issued the largest of the 1957 centenary programmes at Managua on 9 April: five postage values, ten airmail values and two souvenir sheets, seventeen items in all for the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting and the centenary of Baden-Powell's birth. Domfil catalogues the stamps as 957.6/20 and the sheets as 957.21 and 957.22.
The postage series runs 10, 15, 20, 25 and 50 centavos, showing a Boy Scout, a Cub, a second Boy Scout, Baden-Powell himself and Joseph A. Harrison. The airmail series adds a handshake over a globe at 3 centavos, the Scout emblem at 4, a Cub at 5, crossed flags at 6, emblem and knot at 8, Harrison again at 30, President Somoza at 40, an Explorer Scout at 75, a Boy Scout at 85 and Baden-Powell at 1 córdoba. The Austrian State Printing Works produced everything in photogravure. SOSOW gives 14 × 13½ for the 3 and 4 centavos and 13½ × 14 for the rest; Colnect also puts the 40 centavos in the first group.
Every stamp was printed in 100,000 copies. The two souvenir sheets, both imperforate, are the scarce items: 50,000 of the sheet holding the five postage values and 25,000 of the airmail sheet, each captioned Hoja Souvenir — Conmemoración del Primer Centenario del Nacimiento del Fundador del Escultismo Mundial.