Scout standing with staff
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.TWN.03-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Taiwan provincial district jamboree
1957.TWN.03· piece 1 of 8 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Taiwan (TWN)- Year / date
- 1957
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- No face value
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Brown, yellow and 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
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Perf.
- Printing
- Lithography
Notes
Scout in campaign hat standing with a vertical staff; slogans 勤勞服務 and 敦親睦鄰. Yellow wash behind the figure.
Series history
Eight perforated commemorative labels for the Taiwan provincial district jamboree — 台灣省分區大露營 — of the Boy Scouts of China in Republic of China Year 46 (1957). They carry no face value and no postal validity.
Every label is headed 中國童子軍 and footed 中華民國四十六年 / 台灣省分區大露營紀念. Four designs show a Scout with a staff in different attitudes; four show campcraft — a campfire with cooking pot, a sundial, an A-frame tent, and a lashed washbowl rack. Each pair of vertical slogans names a Scout or civic precept of the period.
The General Association of the Scouts of China had reorganised in Taiwan in 1950 after the interruption of 1949; the third National Jamboree had been held at Cheng Ching Lake, Kaohsiung, in 1956. These labels mark a provincial district camp of the following year, not a national jamboree. Our sources give no exact camp dates, printer, or quantity. Domfil does not list the set.
