Campfire — souvenir sheet
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1971.LBR.01-13- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 13th World Scout Jamboree
1971.LBR.01· piece 13 of 14 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Liberia (LBR)- Year / date
- 1971-08-06
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 50 c
- Format
- Souvenir sheet
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Multicolour
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Line 15
- Printing
- Lithography
- Size
- 102 × 76 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 971.35
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LR C188
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LR BL56A
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LR BF55
Notes
Souvenir sheet: Scouts cooking at a campfire on the 50 c airmail stamp, AIRMAIL, 13th WORLD JAMBOREE 1971 NIPPON; Girl Guides in tan and blue uniforms in the side margins; 13th INTERNATIONAL SCOUT JAMBOREE · JAPAN · AUGUST 1971; Republic of Liberia.
Series history
Liberia issued six commemoratives at Monrovia on 6 August 1971 for the 13th World Scout Jamboree. Victor Whitely designed Scouts of the United States (3 cents), the Federal Republic of Germany (5 cents), Australia (10 cents), Great Britain (12 cents), Japan (20 cents) and Liberia (25 cents), after a Boy Scouts of America Supply Service postcard series. Each stamp is inscribed SERVICE ABOVE SELF and SCOUTS OF THE WORLD JAMBOREE & CONGRESS JAPAN 1971. Format International Security Printers lithographed the set; the stamps exist line perforated 14 and imperforate. A 50 cent airmail souvenir sheet shows Scouts cooking at a campfire, with Girl Guides in the side margins and 13th INTERNATIONAL SCOUT JAMBOREE · JAPAN · AUGUST 1971; it exists line perforated 15 and imperforate.