✓ In collectionPostalStamp20 y
Cub Scout and Scout handshake
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1972.JPN.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of Japan
1972.JPN.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Japan (JPN)- Year / date
- 1972-11-04
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 20 y
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- 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
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13½
- Panes
- 20
- Quantity printed
- 32,000,000
- Size
- 36 × 26 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 972.34
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- JP 1130
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- JP 1167
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- JP 1069
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- JP 1308
Notes
Cub Scout in a blue uniform and a Scout in a khaki campaign hat exchanging the left handshake and saluting, with a gold fleur-de-lis between them. Inscribed ボーイスカウト50年記念, 日本郵便, NIPPON, 1972 and 20. The Scout's sleeve bears a red patch lettered 50.
Series history
Japan issued a 20 yen commemorative at Tokyo on 4 November 1972 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of Japan. Takao Yamanouchi designed a Cub Scout in a blue uniform and a Scout in a khaki campaign hat exchanging the left handshake and saluting, with a gold fleur-de-lis between them. The Government Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance printed 32,000,000 copies by photogravure in panes of twenty, comb perforated 13½. Specimen stamps with the みほん (mihon) overprint also exist.