Skiers and emblems
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1975.NOR.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Nordjamb 75, Lillehammer
1975.NOR.01· piece 2 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Norway (NOR)- Year / date
- 1975-06-19
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 1.40 kr
- 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
- Designer
- Arne Johnson
- Printer
- Emil Moestue A/S
- Process
- Offset lithography
- Paper
- Harrison Hs8 phosphorescent, dull gum
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¼
- Panes
- 50
- Size
- 40 x 24 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 975.12
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NO 657
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NO 706
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NO 662
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- NO 740
Notes
Inscribed NORGE 140. Three red figures cross-country skiing on a white slope under pink-purple mountains and a yellow sky; Guide trefoil among pines at left and a large Scout fleur-de-lis at right. Signed ARNE JOHNSON, dated -75.
Series history
Norway issued two commemoratives in Oslo on 19 June 1975 for the 14th World Scout Jamboree, Nordjamb 75, held at Lillehammer from 29 July to 7 August 1975. Arne Johnson designed them; his name is printed at lower left and -75 at lower right. Emil Moestue lithographed them in panes of fifty, 40 × 24 mm, comb perforated 13¼, on Harrison phosphorescent paper with dull gum. Print quantities are unsettled: figures of about 6.9 million of the 1.25 krone and 1.5–1.8 million of the 1.40 krone circulate.
The 1.25 krone, inscribed NORGE 125, shows a camp-site — white tent silhouettes and two trees on an olive slope, with purple and pink mountain bands behind — a blue Guide trefoil at left and a Scout fleur-de-lis at right.
The 1.40 krone, inscribed NORGE 140, shows three red figures cross-country skiing on a white slope under pink-purple mountains and a yellow sky, with the same Guide trefoil among pines at left and a large Scout fleur-de-lis at right.