Scout pitching a tent — 40 p, imperforate
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1958.SYR.01-04- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 3rd Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree
1958.SYR.01· piece 4 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.
- Imperforate
- Printing
- Typography
- Size
- 48 x 30 mm
Notes
Imperforate of the 40 piastres airmail. Same jamboree tent design as the 35 p, in light blue.
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.