Robert Baden-Powell (airmail)
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1962.PRY.01-06- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Tribute to the Scouts
1962.PRY.01· piece 6 of 18 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Paraguay (PRY)- Year / date
- 1962-02-06
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 12.45 Gs - Paraguay - Guaraní
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Blue
- 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.
- 11½
- Printing
- Offset
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 962.14
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- PY 643
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- PY 1014
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- PY PA314
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- PY 991
Series history
Paraguay issued this tribute to the Boy Scouts on 6 February 1962. The five low values show a scout sounding a bugle beside tents under the heading HOMENAJE A LOS BOY SCOUTS. Three airmail values (12.45, 36 and 50 guaraníes) carry a portrait of Baden-Powell with the fleur-de-lis. The same eight denominations exist imperforate, and a 50 g souvenir sheet — perforated and imperforate — places the Baden-Powell stamp in a green panelled frame reading CORREO DEL PARAGUAY ENERO DE 1962.
Print runs are given as 500,000 for the 10–25 c values, 300,000 for the 30 and 50 c, 10,000 for each airmail value, 5,000 perforated souvenir sheets, and a further imperforate edition of 5,000 sets and 3,000 sheets. Designer Fiorello Botti; lithography; perforated 11½. The stamp imprint reads El Arte S.A.; some sources attribute the printing to the Chilean Mint. The airmail value inscribed G 36 is the 36 guaraníes stamp.