Scout pitching a tent — 40 p
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1958.SYR.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 3rd Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree
1958.SYR.01· piece 2 of 4 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Syria (SYR)- Year / date
- 1958-08-31
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 40 p
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Light blue
- 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
- State Printing Office
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12
- Printing
- Typography
- Size
- 48 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 958.8
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- SY-UA C5
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- SY-UA 8
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- SY PA138
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- SY 658
Notes
Two Scouts pitching a tent, the United Arab Republic Scout emblem — a fleur-de-lis between the letters U A R — at the upper left, AIR MAIL and the dates 1958 / 1378 below it, and the legend IIIrd BOYSCOUTS PAN-ARAB JAMBOREE 1958 across the foot. Airmail value. Domfil 958.8.
Series history
Syria issued two airmail commemoratives at Damascus on 31 August 1958 for the third Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree. Domfil catalogues them as 958.7/8 and prices the imperforate set as a separate line beneath.
Both values carry the same design — two Scouts pitching a tent, the United Arab Republic Scout emblem at the upper left with AIR MAIL and the dates 1958 and 1378 beneath it, and the legend IIIrd BOYSCOUTS PAN-ARAB JAMBOREE 1958 along the foot — the 35 piastres in brown and the 40 piastres in light blue. The State Printing Office produced them by typography, comb perforation 12. SOSOW notes 1,500 sets, a figure that would make this one of the scarcest issues of the decade if it refers to the whole printing rather than to a presentation quantity.
The stamps carry Michel and Scott numbers under the United Arab Republic — Syria had joined Egypt in the union that February — while Yvert and Stanley Gibbons keep them under Syria. The references are Scott SY-UA C4–C5, Michel SY-UA 7–8, Yvert SY PA137–PA138 and Stanley Gibbons SY 657–658.
The pair also exists imperforate. Two varieties are recorded on the imperforate 35 piastres — a dot in the bottom of the B of JAMBOREE, and a dot above and right of the p in 35p.