Robert Baden-Powell
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1967.AJM.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 12th World Scout Jamboree, Idaho
1967.AJM.01· piece 3 of 13 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Ajman (AJM)- Year / date
- 1967-10-25
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 1 r
- 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
- Process
- Typography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 967.135
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AJ 184A
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AJ 79B
Notes
Portrait of Robert Baden-Powell in Scout hat within a wreath on an orange field; birth and death years 1857 and 1941.
Series history
Ajman issued six stamps and an imperforate souvenir sheet on 25 October 1967 for the 12th World Scout Jamboree held in Idaho, U.S.A., in August 1967. The set was printed by typography and released both comb perforated 12½ and imperforate, in panes of twenty-five. Designer and printer are not established. The three lower values (30 dh, 70 dh and 1 r) are ordinary commemoratives; the 2 r, 3 r and 4 r, and the 5 r souvenir sheet, are inscribed AIR MAIL. Thirty thousand copies of each stamp value and ten thousand of the souvenir sheet are recorded. The postal status of the issue is disputed.
The designs are a portrait of Robert Baden-Powell with the years 1857 and 1941 (30 dh and 1 r); a Scout bugler before camp tents (70 dh and 3 r); a map of North America with a star over Idaho, a Scout fleur-de-lis and doves (2 r and 4 r); and, on the souvenir sheet, the jamboree emblem set against the United States flag.