Girl Guide salute
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1970.IND.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Diamond Jubilee of the Girl Guide Movement
1970.IND.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
India (IND)- Year / date
- 1970-12-27
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 20 p
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Plum
- 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.
- Comb 13
- Panes
- 35
- Quantity printed
- 3,000,000
- Size
- 39.1 × 29 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 970.25
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- IN 532
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- IN 516
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- IN 315
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- IN 630
Notes
Girl Guide in profile giving the three-finger salute; WAGGGS trefoil at upper right and Bharat Scouts and Guides emblem at lower right. Photogravure, comb perforated 13.
Series history
India issued a 20 paise commemorative on 27 December 1970 at Bombay and other cities for the diamond jubilee of the Girl Guide Movement — the sixtieth anniversary of world Guiding — and for the 6th All-Indian Jamboree. The vertical plum design shows a Girl Guide in profile giving the three-finger salute. The World Association trefoil sits at the upper right and the Bharat Scouts and Guides emblem, a fleur-de-lis charged with the Ashoka Chakra, at the lower right. English GIRL GUIDE MOVEMENT DIAMOND JUBILEE runs down the right; Hindi titles for the Guide Movement and the diamond jubilee, with the year 1970, occupy the upper and left margins. The face value 20 sits at lower left above भारत / INDIA. The India Security Press designed and printed the stamp by photogravure, 39.1 × 29 mm, comb perforated 13, in panes of thirty-five, on unwatermarked paper. Three million copies were produced.