Guide
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1964.AFG.01-28- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Women's Day
1964.AFG.01· piece 28 of 30 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Afghanistan (AFG)- Year / date
- 1964-01-05
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 12 a
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- 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
- Assadullah Safi
- Printer
- Austrian State Printing Office
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Imperforate
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 964.12
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AF 839B
Notes
Girl Guide in uniform holding the Afghan flag; AFGHAN SCOUT; fleur-de-lis in wreath
Series history
Afghanistan issued a Women's Day set at Kabul on 5 January 1964. The stamps are dated 1963 and Hijri 1342 and inscribed AFGHAN SCOUT and LA JOURNEE DES FEMMES. Assadullah Safi's designs cover three subjects: a boy and girl scout planting saplings (ordinary postage in puls); a Girl Guide holding the national flag (airmail); and a Guide tending two younger girls (airmail).
Twelve perforated values form the basic set — 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 puls for the plantation design; airmails at 2 afghanis (Guide), 2 afghanis (childminders), 2.50 afghanis (Guide), 3, 4 and 5 afghanis (childminder), and 12 afghanis (Guide). The same twelve designs exist imperforate. Four perforated souvenir sheets carry the 5 and 6 afghanis Guide designs and the 6 and 10 afghanis childminders designs, each with Scout emblems, the years 1963 / 1342, and a serial number; the 6 and 10 afghanis childminders sheets also exist imperforate.
The Austrian State Printing Office printed the issue by photogravure, perforated about 13¾. The postal status of the issue is disputed among collectors.