Cooking
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1973.HVO.02-04- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scout activities
1973.HVO.02· piece 4 of 6 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Upper Volta (HVO)- Year / date
- 1973-07-18
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 150 f
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Agency 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
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12½ × 13
- Size
- 41 × 52 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 973.50
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BF C162
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BF 455
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BF PA152
Notes
A Scout in khaki shirt and red neckerchief, mostly in silhouette, cooking over a log hearth with a ladle and pan; a blue tent and a tree beside him. Inscribed REPUBLIQUE DE HAUTE-VOLTA, POSTE AERIENNE and 150F.
Series history
Upper Volta issued five stamps and a souvenir sheet at Ouagadougou on 18 July 1973 honouring Scouting. They were printed by offset lithography, comb perforated 12½ × 13, about 41 × 52 mm. Sources name no designer or printer. The issue was withdrawn from sale on 31 December 1975.
The 20 f, inscribed POSTES, shows a Scout blowing a bugle at a campsite with two tents. The four airmails are inscribed POSTE AERIENNE: 40 f, a Scout signalling with red-and-white semaphore flags; 75 f, a skier with a backpack on a snowy slope; 150 f, a Scout cooking over a log hearth; and 200 f, a Scout hiking with a staff and a small yellow flag. The souvenir sheet, 80 × 104 mm, comb perforated 12½, holds a 250 f stamp of two Scouts watching the stars, with savanna and a pale-blue cross in the margin.
