Parade and Service
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1974.LSO.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Youth and Development
1974.LSO.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Lesotho (LSO)- Year / date
- 1974-02-18
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 30 c
- 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.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Designer
- H. Granger-Barrett
- Printer
- House of Questa
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾ × 14
- Panes
- 50
- Quantity printed
- 70,000
- Size
- 49 x 32 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 974.5
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LS 155
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LS 155
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LS 257
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LS 254
Notes
Yellow field in two panels. Left: young men in green shirts, dark trousers and berets standing in a receding line. Right: two in blue overalls laying a red-brick wall, watched by a man in a suit; lettered Service. Inscribed LESOTHO, YOUTH & DEVELOPMENT and 30c.
Series history
Lesotho issued a 30 cents commemorative on 18 February 1974, inscribed YOUTH & DEVELOPMENT and Service. It is one value of a five-stamp Youth and Development issue. H. Granger-Barrett designed the stamp; House of Questa printed it by lithography in panes of 50. Seventy thousand copies were printed.
The yellow design is in two panels. At left, young men in green shirts, dark trousers and berets stand in a receding line. At right, two in blue overalls lay a brick wall, watched by a man in a suit. The stamp does not name Scouting, and the uniforms are not identified on the stamp.