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1977.LKA.0160th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Girl Guides
Sri Lanka·1977
60th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Girl Guides
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Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1977.LKA.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Sri Lanka (LKA)
- Year
- 1977-12-13
- Event
- 60th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Girl Guides
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
Production
- Printer
- Asher & Co., Melbourne
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 15
- Panes
- 100 stamps
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 977.14
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LK 527
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LK 476
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LK 494
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LK 647
History
Sri Lanka issued a single commemorative at Colombo on 13 December 1977 for the sixtieth anniversary of the Sri Lanka Girl Guides. The stamp is landscape, 37 × 27 mm, inscribed SRI LANKA and GIRL GUIDES in Sinhala, Tamil and English. The trefoil on a diamond is lettered 60 and 1977.
Asher & Co. of Melbourne printed it by offset lithography, comb perforated 15, in panes of 100. The designer is not established.
At left a Girl Guide in white waves from a mustard-yellow panel. A blue band holds the anniversary trefoil. At right a red sun and two bird silhouettes; the face value is .75.