Pioneer bugler — 55 bani
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1958.ROU.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 10th Anniversary of the Education Reform
1958.ROU.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Romania (ROU)- Year / date
- 1958-12-20
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 55 b
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Bright red
- 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
- Ion Dumitrana
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 28 × 33 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 958.65
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- RO 1260
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- RO 1761
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- RO 1616
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- RO 2629
Notes
A Pioneer sounding the bugle beside a comrade holding a book, a school building behind them. No watermark. Domfil 958.65 «Corneta / Bugle». Print run 1,000,000.
Series history
Romania issued this 55 bani commemorative on 20 December 1958 for the tenth anniversary of the education reform of August 1948, the law that nationalised the schools and rebuilt the system on the Soviet model. Domfil catalogues it as 958.65 «Corneta / Bugle».
The bright red design shows a Pioneer sounding the bugle beside a comrade holding a book, with a school building behind. Ion Dumitrana drew it — the same designer as the fifth anniversary Pioneer set of 1954 — and it was printed in photogravure, 28 × 33 mm, comb perforation 13¾, without watermark, in a run of 1,000,000.
The bugler is what brings an education-reform stamp into a Scout catalogue. It is the standard Pioneer figure of the Eastern-bloc issues of these years, and Domfil indexes the stamp by that motif rather than by the anniversary it marks: the same reading already applied to the Romanian Pioneer anniversaries from 1950 onwards and to Poland's rally bugler of 1952.
Catalogue references are Scott RO 1260, Michel RO 1761, Yvert RO 1616 and Stanley Gibbons RO 2629.