Scout saluting
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1977.IRL.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scouts and Guiding
1977.IRL.01· piece 2 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Ireland (IRL)- Year / date
- 1977-08-22
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 17 p
- 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
- Robert Ballagh
- Printer
- Revenue Stamping Branch
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 15 x 14½
- Panes
- 100
- Quantity printed
- 2,000,000
- Size
- 40 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 977.10
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- IE 417
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- IE 365
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- IE 367
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- IE 410
Notes
Inscribed ÉIRE and 17. A dark-green silhouette of a Scout in a cap, facing left, giving the three-finger salute, with a white collar and yellow neckerchief. Two white A-frame tents with yellow doorways stand on a green field under a blue sky.
Series history
Ireland issued two commemoratives on 22 August 1977 for the European Scout and Guide Conference, the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland, and the other Scout and Guide organisations in the country. Robert Ballagh designed the pair in flat colour. The Revenue Stamping Branch printed it in photogravure, comb perforated 15 × 14½, in panes of 100. Each stamp is inscribed ÉIRE with the value in the top corners and a framed landscape below. The stamps were withdrawn from sale on 21 February 1978.
Printings were 4,000,000 of the 8 penny and 2,000,000 of the 17 penny.
The 8 penny shows a Guide in silhouette facing three yellow A-frame tents. The 17 penny shows a Scout in silhouette giving the three-finger salute beside two white tents.