Scout handshake and squirrel
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1972.TCD.01-06- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scout activities
1972.TCD.01· piece 6 of 16 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Chad (TCD)- Year / date
- 1972-05-15
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 30 f
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Agency 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
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Imperforate
- Printing
- Lithography
Catalog numbers
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- TD 528B
Notes
Two Scouts in campaign hats shaking hands, each with a staff and pennant (blue with a white animal head; maroon with a yellow squirrel), a third Scout and a ridge tent behind; a squirrel with a nut on the right. Inscribed POSTES, 30F, REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD. Signed SAMIR GHANTOUS; FABRICA DE TIMBRE-BUCURESTI.
Series history
Chad issued five stamps and a 250 franc airmail souvenir sheet at Fort-Lamy on 15 May 1972. Samir Ghantous designed Scout scenes paired with wildlife: a handshake with pennants and a squirrel (30 francs), a climber and a kite (70 francs), canoeists and a fish (80 francs), camp cooking and a flower (100 francs airmail), and Baden-Powell with a fleur-de-lis (120 francs airmail). The souvenir sheet shows Scouts in grassland, with an ostrich and a palm in the margin. Fabrica de Timbre in Bucharest printed the issue by lithography, comb perforated 13½. Imperforate stamps also exist, as do imperforate souvenir sheets of the five stamp designs.