Heritage '76
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1976.USA.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- America's Bicentennial
1976.USA.01· piece 1 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
United States (USA)- Year / date
- 1976
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- —
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Red, white and blue
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Perforated
Notes
Perforated label inscribed america's bicentennial and Heritage '76 1975-1977. A Betsy Ross flag — thirteen white stars in a circle on a blue canton, with red and white stripes — stands left of a red Scout fleur-de-lis. No face value and no postal inscription.
Series history
The Boy Scouts of America marked the United States Bicentennial with a national programme emphasis known as Get Involved For Them (GIFT). From the autumn of 1975 the movement issued three named themes that follow the official Bicentennial vocabulary: Festival U.S.A. (civic events and parades), Heritage '76 (historic sites and restoration, through the second half of 1976), and Horizons '76 (projects looking toward the next two centuries). The labels themselves are dated 1975–1977.
These are perforated poster stamps, not postage. Each design is lettered america's bicentennial in blue, carries a red Scout fleur-de-lis at the right, and has no face value. Heritage '76 shows a Betsy Ross flag. Horizons '76 uses the Rhode Island flag — a blue anchor under a HOPE ribbon — rather than a United States national flag; councils were encouraged to substitute local or historical flags on Bicentennial memorabilia. Festival U.S.A. shows a United States flag with 76 inside a ring of thirteen stars.
The three designs were also issued together as a pane of eighteen (six rows of three), with the margin lettered BICENTENNIAL STAMPS and numbered 9579. The printer is not established.