Guide uniforms, 1917 and 1977
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1977.VCT.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of Girl Guides
1977.VCT.01· piece 3 of 4 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VCT)- Year / date
- 1977-09-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 20 c
- 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
- P. B. Powell
- Printer
- John Waddington Security Print Ltd.
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¾
- Panes
- 50 (2 × 25, gutter)
- Quantity printed
- 82,500
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 977.25
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- VC 506
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- VC 482
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- VC 493
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- VC 538
Notes
Inscribed ST. VINCENT GIRL GUIDES GOLDEN JUBILEE and 20c. A large early United Kingdom Guide in a wide-brimmed hat and whistle lanyard stands before a Guide in the 1977 St. Vincent uniform. Side text: U.K. EARLY GUIDE UNIFORM AND ST. VINCENT 1977. Margin: PB POWELL, 1977, JWK.
Series history
Saint Vincent issued four commemoratives at Kingstown on 1 September 1977 for the golden jubilee of Girl Guides. Each stamp is portrait and inscribed GIRL GUIDES GOLDEN JUBILEE and St. Vincent. PAD Studios designed the 5 cent and the 2 dollar; P. B. Powell designed the 15 cent and the 20 cent. John Waddington printed the set by offset lithography, comb perforated 13¾, in panes of 50 as two panes of 25 with a gutter, on paper watermarked with a multiple Crown and Block CA, diagonal, upright. Specimen overprints exist.
Printings were 120,000 of the 5 cent, 100,000 of the 15 cent, 82,500 of the 20 cent and 44,000 of the 2 dollar.
The 5 cent shows a Guide in a light-blue uniform before a large orange trefoil. The 15 cent shows an early United Kingdom Guide in profile with a Ranger, a Brownie and a later Guide. The 20 cent pairs an early United Kingdom uniform with the 1977 St. Vincent uniform. The 2 dollar is a portrait of Lady Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide, in a campaign hat; she died in June 1977.