Two Scouts and rocket — souvenir sheet
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1980.CAF.01-14- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Europe-Africa Cooperation
1980.CAF.01· piece 14 of 14 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Central African Republic (CAF)- Year / date
- 1980-11-04
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 1500 F
- Format
- Souvenir sheet
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Agency airmail
- Colors
- Multicolour
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Designer
- Jean-Louis Puvilland
- Printer
- Format International Security Printers
- Process
- Offset lithography, hot stamping and embossing
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 980.69
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- CF C236A
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- CF BL97
Notes
Souvenir sheet with the 1500-franc airmail of two Scouts before a purple map, the stamp lettered BOY-SCOUTS and 1500F. Margin: a worker in a hard hat, buildings, an excavator and an Ariane-type rocket; REPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINE and COOPERATION EUROPE-AFRIQUE. Offset lithography, hot stamping and embossing; comb 13½.
Series history
The Central African Republic issued a gold-foil airmail and seven souvenir sheets at Bangui on 4 November 1980, lettered COOPERATION EUROPE-AFRIQUE. Jean-Louis Puvilland designed the issue. The six lower sheets are offset lithography, in both comb 13½ and imperforate printings; the 1500-franc airmail is lithographed, hot-stamped and embossed. The 1500-franc stamp was issued in panes of four.
Each of the six sheets carries one stamp at the left and, in the margin, two Scouts — one African, one European — dancing before a magenta map of Africa, lettered COOPERATION and EUROPE-AFRIQUE. The stamps show agriculture (30 francs), industry (40 francs), technicians at communications equipment (70 francs), an Ariane-type rocket (100 francs), a satellite over the Earth (150 francs), and a technician with a spacecraft, lettered CONQUÊTE DE L'ESPACE and POSTE AÉRIENNE (200 francs).
The 1500-franc airmail, lettered POSTE AÉRIENNE and COOPÉRATION EUROPE AFRIQUE, shows the same two Scouts beside a three-finger salute over a map of Africa. Its souvenir sheet repeats that design, the stamp lettered BOY-SCOUTS, and adds a margin with a hard-hatted worker, buildings and an Ariane-type rocket.