Scout — Service, Education, Achievement
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1961.LBR.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scouts in Liberia
1961.LBR.01· piece 1 of 8 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Liberia (LBR)- Year / date
- 1961-12-04
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 5 c
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- 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
- Printer
- E. A. Wright Bank Note Co., Philadelphia
- Process
- Lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 11½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 961.17
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LR 399
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LR 573
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LR 377
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LR 852
Notes
Scout portrait with sports vignettes; perforated
Series history
Liberia issued a Boy Scouts set at Monrovia on 4 December 1961. E. A. Wright Bank Note Company of Philadelphia printed the issue by lithography on enamel-coated paper; the perforated stamps are gauged about 11½.
The 5 c shows a Scout portrait framed by the motto Service / Education / Achievement and sports vignettes. The 10 c pairs the Liberian Scout fleur-de-lis (letters RL) with two Scouts at a camp-fire under the slogan «Scouts Today / Leaders Tomorrow». The 25 c airmail shows a Scout before a fleur-de-lis with the legend «Duty to God and Country». Imperforate singles of these three values exist.
A souvenir sheet carries a 35 c airmail design of a Scout amid sports figures, headed «Strength in the Arm of Liberty» with flanking RL fleur-de-lis emblems; it exists perforated and imperforate.