Lord Baden-Powell — 25 c
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.NIC.01-09- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Centenary of Baden-Powell's birth
1957.NIC.01· piece 9 of 17 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Nicaragua (NIC)- Year / date
- 1957-04-09
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 25 c
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Blue-green | Brown Carmine
- 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
- Austrian State Printing Works
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13½ × 14
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 27 x 33 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.9
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NI 781
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NI 1129
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NI 800
Notes
Lord Baden-Powell. Photogravure by the Austrian State Printing Works. Domfil 957.9. Quantity 100,000 (SOSOW).
Series history
Nicaragua issued the largest of the 1957 centenary programmes at Managua on 9 April: five postage values, ten airmail values and two souvenir sheets, seventeen items in all for the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting and the centenary of Baden-Powell's birth. Domfil catalogues the stamps as 957.6/20 and the sheets as 957.21 and 957.22.
The postage series runs 10, 15, 20, 25 and 50 centavos, showing a Boy Scout, a Cub, a second Boy Scout, Baden-Powell himself and Joseph A. Harrison. The airmail series adds a handshake over a globe at 3 centavos, the Scout emblem at 4, a Cub at 5, crossed flags at 6, emblem and knot at 8, Harrison again at 30, President Somoza at 40, an Explorer Scout at 75, a Boy Scout at 85 and Baden-Powell at 1 córdoba. The Austrian State Printing Works produced everything in photogravure. SOSOW gives 14 × 13½ for the 3 and 4 centavos and 13½ × 14 for the rest; Colnect also puts the 40 centavos in the first group.
Every stamp was printed in 100,000 copies. The two souvenir sheets, both imperforate, are the scarce items: 50,000 of the sheet holding the five postage values and 25,000 of the airmail sheet, each captioned Hoja Souvenir — Conmemoración del Primer Centenario del Nacimiento del Fundador del Escultismo Mundial.