✓ In collectionPostalStamp9 d
Scout heads and salute
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1968.GIB.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 60th Anniversary of the Gibraltar Scout Association
1968.GIB.01· piece 3 of 4 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Gibraltar (GIB)- Year / date
- 1968-03-27
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 9 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
- Designer
- A. G. Ryman
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 14 × 14½
- Panes
- 60
- Size
- 40 × 28.8 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 968.3
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- GI 211
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- GI 213
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- GI 209
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- GI 225
Notes
Overlapping Scout head profiles and a three-finger Scout salute against a blue ground with tent outline; Queen Elizabeth II profile.
Series history
Gibraltar issued four commemoratives on 27 March 1968 for the diamond jubilee of the Gibraltar Scout Association (1908–1968). A. G. Ryman designed the set; Harrison & Sons printed it by photogravure in panes of sixty, comb perforated 14 × 14½, in the format 40 × 28.8 mm, on paper watermarked with the multiple St. Edward's Crown and CA. Each stamp carries a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. The designs show Baden-Powell beside the Rock of Gibraltar, a Scout flag with a globe and the Rock, Scout heads with a three-finger salute, and three Scout fleur-de-lis badges.