Hiking Scouts
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1967.RAK.01-04- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 12th World Scout Jamboree, Idaho
1967.RAK.01· piece 4 of 16 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Ras al-Khaimah (RAK)- Year / date
- 1967-07-20
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 4 d
- 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
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12
- Size
- 51 x 40 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 967.41
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- RK 169
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- RK 191A
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- RK 39C
Notes
Scouts hiking with backpacks through open country; red fleur-de-lis at upper left.
Series history
Ras al-Khaimah issued seven stamps on 20 July 1967 for the 12th World Scout Jamboree held in Idaho, U.S.A., in August 1967. The set was printed by offset lithography and released both comb perforated 12 and imperforate. The four lower values (1 d to 4 d) are ordinary commemoratives; the 35 d, 75 d and 1 r are inscribed AIR MAIL. Ten thousand copies of each stamp value are recorded, in panes of twenty. Designer and printer are not established.
The designs are a Scout bugler before a fleur-de-lis flag and tents (1 d); a portrait of Baden-Powell (2 d and 75 d); Scouts at a camp fire (3 d); hiking Scouts (4 d); a large green Scout lily (35 d); and a Scout looking up at a Gemini-style space capsule (1 r). Two imperforate souvenir sheets accompanied the issue: one pairs the 75 d and 35 d airmail designs on a pink ground; the other carries the 1 r Scout and capsule design beside a map of the Americas. Both sheets are inscribed JAMBOREE AUGUST 1967 IN U.S.A. The postal status of the issue is disputed.