Scouts on a hilltop
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1976.MLI.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 1st African Scout Jamboree, Nigeria
1976.MLI.01· piece 3 of 6 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Mali (MLI)- Year / date
- 1976-06-14
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 200 f
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Multicolour
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ◔ Purchased€3.00 for 3 pieces · Postbeeld · 2026-09-06
Production
- Designer
- Georges Bétemps
- Printer
- Imprimerie des Timbres-Poste, Paris
- Process
- Recess
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13
- Panes
- 10 (2 × 5, gutter pairs)
- Size
- 31.5 x 52 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 976.24
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- ML C286
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- ML 541
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- ML PA282
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- ML 543
Notes
Airmail, inscribed REPUBLIQUE DU MALI, POSTE AERIENNE and 1ER JAMBOREE SCOUT AFRICAIN NIGERIA. Two Scouts in silhouette on a rocky hill: one stands with pack and a staff bearing a small pennant; the other sits. An orange sun (or moon) hangs in a banded sky above a rivered landscape. An orange Scout fleur-de-lis is at lower left. Signed BETEMPS. 200 F.
Series history
Mali issued three airmail commemoratives at Bamako on 14 June 1976 for the 1st African Scout Jamboree in Nigeria. Each stamp is inscribed REPUBLIQUE DU MALI, POSTE AERIENNE and 1ER JAMBOREE SCOUT AFRICAIN NIGERIA, and carries a Scout fleur-de-lis. Georges Bétemps designed and engraved the set. The Imprimerie des Timbres-Poste, Paris, printed it in recess, comb perforated 13, in panes of ten (two by five, with gutter pairs).
The 140 franc, upright at 31.5 × 52 mm, shows two Scouts hiking with staffs and maps; smaller figures appear behind them. It is signed BETEMPS. The 180 franc, landscape at 52 × 31.5 mm, shows two Scouts treating a small antelope beside a first-aid box marked with a red cross, with tents in the camp. The 200 franc, again upright at 31.5 × 52 mm, shows two Scouts in silhouette on a rocky hill — one standing with a staff and pennant, the other sitting — against an orange sun or moon. It is likewise signed BETEMPS.
Accounts differ on whether the jamboree itself took place in 1976 or in 1977. The stamps date the event only by the inscription Nigeria.
The three values also exist imperforate.