Scout salute, bugle and emblem
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1967.IND.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Diamond Jubilee of the Scout Movement
1967.IND.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
India (IND)- Year / date
- 1967-12-27
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 15 p
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Brown
- 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
- India Security Press
- Printer
- India Security Press
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 14½ × 14
- Size
- 40 x 23 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 967.21
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- IN 460
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- IN 442
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- IN 243
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- IN 558
Notes
Stylised bugle with Scout fleur-de-lis (Ashoka Chakra) and three-finger Scout salute; Diamond Jubilee Scout Movement 1967.
Series history
India issued a 15 paise commemorative on 27 December 1967 at Bombay and other cities for the diamond jubilee of the Scout Movement — the sixtieth anniversary of world Scouting — and for the 5th All-Indian Jamboree.
The horizontal brown design shows, at left, a stylised bugle coiled around a Scout fleur-de-lis charged with the Ashoka Chakra, under the English legend DIAMOND JUBILEE SCOUT MOVEMENT and the year 1967; Hindi titles for the jubilee and the Scout Movement run along the right. At right a raised right hand gives the three-finger Scout salute. The face value 15p. sits at lower left above भारत / INDIA.
The India Security Press designed and printed the stamp by photogravure, 40 × 23 mm, perforated 14½ × 14, in panes of fifty. Two million copies were produced.