✓ In collectionPostalStamp3 ¢
Boy Scout and Cub Scout
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1965.RYU.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 10th Anniversary of the Ryukyuan Boy Scouts
1965.RYU.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Ryukyu Islands (RYU)- Year / date
- 1965-02-06
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 3 ¢
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Multicolour
- 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
- Shin Isagawa
- Printer
- Japanese Government Printing Works
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 965.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- JP-RK 130
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- JP-RK 159
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- JP-RK 124
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- JP-RK 165
Notes
Boy Scout in green guiding a Cub Scout in blue beside the Shureimon gate and a fleur-de-lis
Series history
The Ryukyu Islands issued a 3-cent commemorative on 6 February 1965 for the tenth anniversary of the Ryukyuan Boy Scouts. Shin Isagawa designed a Boy Scout in green uniform with a red neckerchief guiding a younger Cub Scout in blue, both looking toward a small view of the Shureimon gate beside the value; a white fleur-de-lis sits at lower right, and the stamp is inscribed 琉球ボーイスカウト創立10周年記念, 琉球郵便 and RYUKYUS 1965. The Japanese Government Printing Works printed about 800,000 copies by photogravure in panes of twenty with a border inscription, perforated 13½. Specimen stamps with the みほん (mihon) overprint also exist (1,500 reported).