✓ In collectionPostalStamp5 d
Guide and Lord Baden-Powell
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1960.AUS.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of Girl Guiding
1960.AUS.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Australia (AUS)- Year / date
- 1960-08-18
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 5 d
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Deep ultramarine
- 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
- Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia
- Printer
- Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia
- Process
- Engraving (recess)
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 14½ × 14
- Size
- 38 x 25 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 960.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AU 335
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AU 305
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AU 267
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- AU 334
Notes
Girl Guide in beret with Baden-Powell portrait; Golden Jubilee of Guiding 1910–1960
Series history
Australia issued a 5 penny commemorative at Brisbane on 18 August 1960 for the fiftieth anniversary of Girl Guiding in Australia.
The design pairs a Girl Guide in beret and trefoil badge with a smaller portrait of Baden-Powell in campaign hat beside her. GOLDEN JUBILEE OF GUIDING 1910–1960 runs across the foot, and a circular Girl Guides jubilee seal ringed by a chain sits at lower right. The stamp is printed in deep ultramarine.
The Note Printing Branch of the Reserve Bank of Australia recess-printed some 66,769,040 copies in panes of eighty, perforated 14½ × 14. Stocks were also perforated with the initials T, GNSW or GV for official government use.