Girl Guide saluting, badge and World Flag
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1967.LKA.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of the Girl Guides
1967.LKA.01· piece 2 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Sri Lanka (LKA)- Year / date
- 1967-09-19
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 25 c
- 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
- Printer
- De La Rue & Co. Ltd.
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12¼ x 12¾
- Size
- 36 x 25 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 967.12
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LK 411
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LK 365
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LK 383
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LK 533
Notes
Orange field; same Girl Guide, badge and World Guide flag design as the 3 c; green GIRL GUIDES band at foot.
Series history
Ceylon issued two commemoratives in Colombo on 19 September 1967 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Ceylon Girl Guide Association. The stamps are inscribed in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Both values share one design: a Girl Guide in a green saree-style uniform and white blouse gives the three-finger salute. At left a circular badge holds a trefoil charged with an elephant above the dates 1917–1967; at right flies the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts flag, dark blue with a yellow trefoil. The 3 c has a green field with an orange foot band; the 25 c reverses those colours with an orange field and a green foot band. Each stamp is lettered GIRL GUIDES across the foot.
De La Rue printed the set by offset lithography, 36 × 25 mm, comb perforated 12¼ × 12¾, in panes of 100.