Boy Scouts of China emblem — Scouts' Day 1957
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1957.TWN.02-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scouts' Day
1957.TWN.02· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Taiwan (TWN)- Year / date
- 1957-03-05
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- No face value
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Blue, red and gold
- 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.
- Perf.
- Printing
- Lithography
Notes
Fleur-de-lis with the national sun on a blue-and-red shield, scroll 智仁勇 beneath; headed 中國童子軍, dated 中華民國四十六年, footed 童子軍節紀念. No face value.
Series history
A commemorative label issued for Scouts' Day — 童子軍節 — in the forty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1957). It carries no face value and no postal validity: a cinderella of the Boy Scouts of China, printed in Taiwan.
The design centres on the Scout fleur-de-lis bearing the national sun (Blue Sky with a White Sun) over a blue-and-red shield, with a scroll reading 智仁勇 — wisdom, benevolence, courage. Vertical slogans flank the emblem: 實行三民主義 on one side and 負責任守紀律 on the other. Across the head runs 中國童子軍; at the foot, 中華民國四十六年 and 童子軍節紀念.
Scouts' Day falls on 5 March, recognised since 1926; the Founding Day of Scouts of China is 25 February 1912. Our sources give no printer, perforation gauge, or print quantity for this label. Domfil does not list it — only the postal commemoratives of 11 August 1957 for the world Scouting jubilee appear in that catalogue under Formosa.
