Cooking and canoe — souvenir sheet
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1980.NIC.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Year of Literacy
1980.NIC.01· piece 1 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Nicaragua (NIC)- Year / date
- 1980-09-26
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 5 C$
- Format
- Souvenir sheet
- 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.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Designer
- G. L. Vasarhelyi
- Printer
- Format International Security Printers Ltd.
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13½
- Quantity printed
- 5,400
- Size
- 126 × 101 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 980.65
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NI BL120
Notes
Perforated airmail sheet, 126 × 101 mm. Two stamps: a Scout cooking at camp, 2 córdobas; two Scouts in canoe 26, 3 córdobas. Each stamp has a World Scout emblem and a black square with the International Year of the Child badge. Margin: Scouts by a tent before a lake and mountains; NORDJAMB-75 badge; silver Year of the Child emblem; 1980 AÑO DE LA ALFABETIZACION and DECIMOCUARTO CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE NIÑOS EXPLORADORES.
Series history
Nicaragua overprinted, in black and silver, the two 1975 Nordjamb 75 airmail souvenir sheets, released on 26 September 1980. Each sheet is lettered 1980 AÑO DE LA ALFABETIZACION and carries a silver International Year of the Child emblem; the original NORDJAMB-75 badge remains in the margin. Five thousand four hundred of each sheet were issued. G. L. Vasarhelyi designed the underlying sheets; Format International Security Printers printed them by offset lithography, 126 × 101 mm.
The perforated sheet holds two stamps: a Scout cooking at camp, 2 córdobas, and two Scouts in canoe 26, 3 córdobas. The margin shows Scouts by a tent before a lake and mountains, and is lettered DECIMOCUARTO CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE NIÑOS EXPLORADORES.
The second sheet is imperforate. Its stamps show a Scout with a flag at Campo Escuela Nacional El Coyotepe, 2 córdobas, and Scouts at a night campfire, 3 córdobas. The margin is a sunset over water with a rider and pack animal, lettered 14º CONGRESO MUNDIAL DE NIÑOS EXPLORADORES.