1980.WSM.01Stamp Duty — Samoan action song
Samoa·1980
Stamp duty surcharge on the 1973 Boy Scout Movement 20 sene
Series details
Identity
- CodeSeries code YYYY.ENT.SS — year, 3-letter issuing entity, sequence (e.g. 1900.CGH.01).
1980.WSM.01- EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
- Samoa (WSM)
- Year
- 1980
- Event
- Stamp duty surcharge on the 1973 Boy Scout Movement 20 sene
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Revenue
Production
- Designer
- Gordon Drummond
- Printer
- Format International Security Printers
- Process
- Offset lithography
- Paper
- Watermarked kava bowl and WS multiple
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 14
History
In 1980 the 20 sene stamp of the 1973 Boy Scout Movement issue was locally surcharged for stamp duty. A black overprint reads STAMP DUTY and 50 sene; a solid black rectangle covers the original value.
The underlying design, by Gordon Drummond and printed by Format International Security Printers in offset lithography, shows Scouts in khaki with green berets and blue-bordered neckerchiefs leaning forward in a Samoan action song. It is inscribed SAMOA I SISIFO and BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT, with a Scout fleur-de-lis at the lower left and a campfire badge at the lower right. Comb perforated 14, 43 × 29 mm, on paper watermarked with a kava bowl and WS multiple. It is a fiscal stamp and has no postal franking value.
Notes
- Revenue — stamp duty surcharge, no postal franking value