Jubilee Jamboree overprinted — 75 np on 1s 3d
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.QAT.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Jubilee Jamboree — overprinted QATAR
1957.QAT.01· piece 3 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Qatar (QAT)- Year / date
- 1957-08-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 75 np on 1s 3d
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Dark 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
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons (basic stamps)
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 15 × 14
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 41 x 25 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 957.18
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- QA 18
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- QA 18
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- QA 18
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- QA 18
Notes
Globe with compass rose and Scout fleur-de-lis, overprinted QATAR and surcharged 75 NP in black. Domfil 957.18.
Series history
Qatar marked the IX World Scout Jamboree at Doha on 1 August 1957 with the same device Bahrain and Muscat used that day: the British Jubilee Jamboree stamps overprinted QATAR and surcharged in naye paise, all in black. Qatar was then a Persian Gulf Agency of Great Britain and had no stamps of its own design. Domfil catalogues the three as 957.16/18.
The base stamps are the Great Britain set for the jamboree — the Scout badge with coiled rope at 2½d, the medallion and swallows at 4d, and the globe with compass rose and Scout fleur-de-lis at 1s 3d — surcharged 15, 25 and 75 naye paise respectively. Qatar is unusual in carrying the same number, 16 to 18, in Scott, Michel, Yvert and Stanley Gibbons alike; its philatelic record was short enough that the catalogues never diverged.
Two source caveats. SOSOW gives the printings as 155,041, 154,705 and 154,080 — figures identical to those on its Muscat page, which suggests one of the two was copied from the other; they should not be relied on without a second source. And Domfil dates the issue 1 January, which cannot be right: the base stamps themselves were not issued until 1 August, the opening day of the jamboree.
All three values are in the collection.