Canoeing
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1975.SWE.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scouts in Sweden
1975.SWE.01· piece 1 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Sweden (SWE)- Year / date
- 1975-10-11
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 90 ö
- 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
- Björn Berg
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons Ltd.
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 14¼ vertical
- Panes
- vertical coils of 100
- Quantity printed
- 18,432,000
- Size
- 31 × 24.5 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 975.31
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- SE 1137
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- SE 921
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- SE 901
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- SE 864
Notes
Inscribed SVERIGE 90 at upper right, BJÖRN BERG at lower left and SCOUTING at lower right. Scouts in canoes and sailboats; a paddler in an orange life-jacket in the foreground. Circular Girl Guide trefoil at lower left of the drawing.
Series history
Sweden issued two 90-öre coil stamps at Stockholm on 11 October 1975, on Stamp Day, after a printers' strike in England had delayed a planned June release. They honour Swedish Scouting. Each stamp is inscribed SVERIGE, 90 and SCOUTING, and is signed BJÖRN BERG. Harrison & Sons printed the issue in photogravure, about 31 × 24.5 mm, perforated 14¼ on the vertical sides, in coils of 100. There is no watermark. 18,432,000 of each design were printed.
One design shows Scouts canoeing and sailing, with a Girl Guide trefoil in the drawing. The other shows a camp: a Scout reading a map, others raising a pole tripod, a tent among pines, and a Scout fleur-de-lis. The two designs were also issued se-tenant.