Lord Baden-Powell in a fleur-de-lis frame — 10 r
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.IRN.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Centenary of Baden-Powell's birth
1957.IRN.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Iran (IRN)- Year / date
- 1957-02-22
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 10 r
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Blue-green and brown
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- Printer
- Parliament Printing Office
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 12½
- Printing
- Photogravure
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- IR 1073
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- IR 992
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- IR 885
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- IR 1114
Notes
Portrait of Baden-Powell set inside a large Scout fleur-de-lis, ornamental border with Persian lettering. Watermark Iranian coat of arms, panes of 50. Domfil 957.1. Quantity 85,000 (SOSOW) — a very small printing.
Series history
Iran issued a single 10 rial commemorative at Teheran on 22 February 1957, Baden-Powell's birthday, for the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting and the centenary of his birth. Domfil catalogues it as 957.1 «Lord Baden-Powell».
The design sets a brown portrait of Baden-Powell inside a large blue-green Scout fleur-de-lis, the whole enclosed in an ornamental border with Persian lettering. The Parliament Printing Office produced it in photogravure, perforated 12½, in panes of 50, on paper watermarked with the Iranian coat of arms — the same workshop and paper as the National Jamboree pair of the previous year.
SOSOW records a printing of only 85,000. Against the two million of Finland's centenary stamp or the 137 million of the British 2½d, that makes this one of the scarcer commemoratives of the jubilee year. Catalogue references are Scott IR 1073, Michel IR 992, Yvert IR 885 and Stanley Gibbons IR 1114.