✓ In collectionPostalStamp35 + 15 s
With signs — 35 + 15 s (perforated)
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1955.IDN.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 1st National Scout Jamboree, Djakarta
1955.IDN.01· piece 2 of 5 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Indonesia (IDN)- Year / date
- 1955-06-27
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 35 + 15 s
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity issue
- Colors
- Navy blue
- 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.
- 12½
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 24 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 955.6
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- ID B84
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- ID 139
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- ID 93
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- ID 687
Notes
Scout with trail signs. Domfil 955.6 «Con señales / With signs». Design after the 1948 BSA Field Book.
Series history
Indonesia issued five semi-postals at Djakarta on 27 June 1955 for its first National Scout Jamboree, each with a surtax for the movement. Domfil catalogues the perforated set as 955.5/9, naming the designs emblem, with signs, at the fire-side, with animals and salute.
SOSOW records that four of the designs were taken from the 1948 edition of the Boy Scouts of America Field Book — the same source that supplied the imagery for Japan's National Jamboree stamp of 1949. G. Kloff printed the set in photogravure, in panes of 100. SOSOW gives the perforation as 13 × 12½, Colnect as 12½.
The set also exists imperforate.