Girl planting a tree — 80 h
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1959.CSK.01-04- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Tenth anniversary of the Pioneer organisation
1959.CSK.01· piece 4 of 4 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Czechoslovakia (CSK)- Year / date
- 1959-03-28
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 80 h
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Brown and yellowish 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
- Designer
- Jozef Baláž
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 11¼ × 11¾
- Printing
- Photogravure and recess
- Size
- 27 × 44 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 959.15
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- CS 911
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- CS 1130
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- CS 1015
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- CS 1087
Notes
A girl bending to plant a young tree, spade in hand. Designed by Jozef Baláž, engraved by Ladislav Jirka. Domfil 959.15. AFA CS 975, POF CS 1047. Print run 2,550,000.
Series history
Czechoslovakia issued four commemoratives on 28 March 1959 for the tenth anniversary of its Pioneer organisation, founded in 1949. Domfil catalogues the set as 959.12/15 and every design carries the dates 1949-1959 up one side.
The four show children at their pursuits rather than on parade: a girl holding up a marionette, a boy seated with a map, a girl listening to a radio set, and a girl planting a tree. Jozef Baláž drew all four; Jindřich Schmidt engraved the 30 and 40 haléřů and Ladislav Jirka the 60 and 80. All are photogravure combined with recess, 27 × 44 mm, comb perforation 11¼ × 11¾, with printings between 2.5 and 3.5 million. They stayed valid for postage until 30 September 1993, outliving the state that issued them by four months.
The anniversary being marked is the founding of the Pioneers in April 1949, which came before the formal dissolution of Junák in September 1950 rather than after it: for more than a year the two existed side by side while the Scout organisation was hollowed out from within. Domfil files the set as Scouting on that ground, as it does the other Pioneer anniversaries of the Eastern bloc.
One caution on sources. Domfil gives the third value as 50 haléřů in its facial column, but the stamp reads 60 and every other catalogue agrees, including the illustration on Domfil's own page. Further references are Michel CS 1127–1130, Scott CS 908–911, Yvert CS 1012–1015, Stanley Gibbons CS 1084–1087, AFA CS 972–975 and POF CS 1044–1047.