Juliette Gordon Low — 3¢
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1948.USA.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Girl Scouts of the USA — Juliette Gordon Low
1948.USA.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
United States (USA)- Year / date
- 1948-10-29
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 3 ¢
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Blue-green
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- linha11 x 10½
- Printing
- Recess
- Size
- 40 x 25 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 948.23
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- US 974
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- US 587
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- US 525
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- US 971
Notes
Portrait of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Recess, panes of 50, line 11×10½. Domfil 948.23. Print run 63,834,000 (SOSOW). First day Savannah, GA.
Series history
On 29 October 1948, at Savannah, Georgia — the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low — the United States issued a 3 cent blue-green commemorative honouring the Girl Scouts of the United States and their founder. Domfil catalogues the stamp as 948.23 under «Girl Guides» / Escultismo femenino, motif Juliette Gordon Low.
The design combines a portrait of Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927) with Girl Scout emblem elements. Designers William K. Shrage and Ward Beeket; portrait and emblem engraved by G. A. Gonderson, lettering and numerals by J. S. Edmundson. Printed in recess by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in panes of 50, line perforation 11 × 10½, size about 40 × 25 mm. SOSOW records a print run of 63,834,000. Catalogue cross-references: Scott US 974, Michel US 587, Yvert US 525, Stanley Gibbons US 971 (Domfil also cites SG 761 in the Spanish listing).
Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912 after meeting Baden-Powell and seeing the Guide movement in Britain. This is therefore a pure Guides/Girl Scouts-on-Stamps commemorative: national recognition of the founder and the organisation on a mainstream U.S. postage stamp. A commercial perfin on Scott 974 is shown only as optional related material, not as a separate catalog piece.
ATA 1964 recalls that Juliette Low founded her first U.S. Girl Scout troop in Savannah, Georgia, on 12 March 1912, as a friend of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell and a frequent visitor to their home in England. It reports about 60 million copies of the 1948 3¢ stamp printed in sheets of 50 (order of magnitude consistent with the large commemorative run).