1976.BEN.01African Jamboree, Jos, Nigeria
Benin·1976
1st African Scout Jamboree, Jos, Nigeria
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1976.BEN.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Benin (BEN)
- Year
- 1976-08-16
- Event
- 1st African Scout Jamboree, Jos, Nigeria
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Designer
- Claude Andréotto
- Printer
- Delrieu, Paris
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12½
- Panes
- 25 stamps
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 976.14; 976.15
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BJ 352; BJ 353
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BJ 55; BJ 56; BJ 55B; BJ 56B
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BJ 370; BJ 371
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BJ 619; BJ 620
History
The People's Republic of Benin issued two commemoratives at Cotonou on 16 August 1976 for the African Scout Jamboree at Jos, Nigeria. Each stamp is landscape, 50 × 30 mm, inscribed REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU BENIN, POSTES and JAMBOREE AFRICAIN JOS, NIGERIA 1976, and carries a circular Scout fleur-de-lis. Claude Andréotto designed the pair. Delrieu, Paris, printed it in offset lithography, comb perforated 12½, in panes of 25, without watermark. The stamps are signed C. ANDREOTTO and DELRIEU.
The 50 franc shows a camp scene — a Scout stirring a pot at a table, two others seated — beside close portraits of two Scouts, one in a wide-brimmed hat. The 70 franc shows three Scouts standing with their arms across one another's shoulders against foliage.
Imperforate stamps of the same designs are known; they are not given separate numbers.