Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil — 17 + 2 c
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.DOM.02-08- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Baden-Powell centenary — Olympic overprints (2¢)
1957.DOM.02· piece 8 of 8 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Dominican Republic (DOM)- Year / date
- 1957-09-09
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 17 + 2 c
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity issue
- Colors
- Multicoloured
- 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.
- Line 14
- Printing
- Photogravure, overprint engraved
- Size
- 56 x 56 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.37
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- DO CB6
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- DO 600
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- DO PA113
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- DO 706
Notes
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil — triple jump, with the national flag, overprinted in red-orange with the Baden-Powell centenary emblem and a 2 c surtax. Domfil 957.37. Quantity 25,000 (SOSOW).
Series history
This is the 2 centavo half of the Dominican Republic's Baden-Powell centenary overprints, issued at Ciudad Trujillo on 9 September 1957. The same eight diamond-shaped stamps of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics — each showing a gold medallist beside their national flag — were overprinted in red-orange with the centenary emblem, here with a 2 centavo surtax. Domfil catalogues the eight as 957.30/37.
The athletes in rising face value are Lars Hall of Sweden, Betty Cuthbert of Australia, Egil Danielsen of Norway, Alain Mimoun of France, Norman Read of New Zealand, Robert Morrow of the United States, Chris Brasher of Great Britain and Adhemar Ferreira da Silva of Brazil; the last three are airmail values. The overprint was engraved and applied to the base stamps Scott 479–483 and C100–102, perforation 14.
SOSOW records only 25,000 of each value, which makes this the scarcer of the two centenary overprints by a wide margin. Its companion, surcharged 5 centavos and numbered Michel 601–608, appeared the same day; Scott separates the two by adding a letter to the numbers of that set. SOSOW attributes the two souvenir sheets to this issue, but the stamps printed within them carry the 5 centavo surcharge, and Domfil numbers the sheets separately as 957.46 and 957.47 — so they belong with the 5 centavo series.
Catalogue references are Scott DO B6–B10 and CB4–CB6, Michel DO 593–600, Yvert DO 462–466 and PA111–PA113, and Stanley Gibbons DO 699–706. All eight are in the collection.
