1966.LBY.01First Arab Girl Scout Camp and Seventh Arab Boy Scouts Camp
Libya·1966
First Arab Girl Scout Camp and Seventh Arab Boy Scouts Camp, Tripoli
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1966.LBY.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Libya (LBY)
- Year
- 1966-08-12
- Event
- First Arab Girl Scout Camp and Seventh Arab Boy Scouts Camp, Tripoli
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13 × 11 (5 m); Comb 11 × 13 (25 m, 65 m)
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 966.23/25
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LY 307; LY 308; LY 309
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LY 222; LY 223; LY 224
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LY 293; LY 294; LY 295
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LY 382; LY 383; LY 384
History
Libya issued three commemorative stamps on 12 August 1966 for the First Arab Girl Scouts Camp and the Seventh Arab Boy Scouts Camp, held at Tripoli.
The 5 millième is a horizontal green design with a dark silhouette of a leaping horned animal and a winged Girl Scout trefoil emblem; the English caption reads 12TH AUGUST 1966 THE FIRST ARAB GIRL SCOUTS CAMP. The 25 millième and 65 millième are vertical stamps sharing a Scout fleur-de-lis with a palm tree in the centre petal, above stylized wings and a globe, enclosed in a rope border tied with a reef knot and inscribed THE SEVENTH ARAB BOY SCOUTS CAMP / 12TH AUGUST 1966. The 25 millième has a pink ruled ground; the 65 millième an orange one.
Joh. Enschedé printed the set by offset lithography. The 5 millième is comb perforated 13 × 11; the 25 millième and 65 millième are comb perforated 11 × 13.