Scout saluting — classical statue silhouette
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1960.GRC.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of National Scouts
1960.GRC.01· piece 2 of 8 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Greece (GRC)- Year / date
- 1960-04-23
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 30 l
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Multicoloured
- 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
- A. Tassos
- Printer
- Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts
- Process
- Lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13 × 13½
- Panes
- 50
- Quantity printed
- 813,043
- Size
- 27 x 43 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 960.5
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- GR 670
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- GR 727
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- GR 706
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- GR 830
Notes
Scout in campaign hat and blue neckerchief giving the three-finger Scout salute, with a pale silhouette of a classical Greek youth mirroring the gesture behind him on a maroon ground; fleur-de-lis at upper left, Λ. 30 at lower right, ΕΛΛΑΣ in white on a red bar. Domfil 960.5 «Saludando / Saluting». Quantity 813,043.
Series history
Greece issued eight commemoratives at Athens on 23 April 1960 for the fiftieth anniversary of Greek Scouting. Domfil catalogues the set as 960.4/11 under «50 Aniversario del escultismo nacional».
A. Tassos designed and engraved the series; Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts printed it by lithography in panes of 50, perforated 13 × 13½ or 13½ × 13 according to orientation, on paper with a multiple-crown watermark. Colnect lists the process as offset, which is consistent with offset lithography. The stamps remained valid for postage until 22 October 1960.
The designs, in rising face-value order, are: a Scout on horseback spearing a dragon against a St George silhouette (20 l, Domfil 960.4); a Scout giving the three-finger salute before a classical statue silhouette (30 l, 960.5); Scouts helping in a disaster amid smoke and flames (40 l, 960.6); two Scouts planting a sapling (50 l, 960.7); three Scouts looking at a map at camp (70 l, 960.8); a Land Scout, a Sea Scout and a younger Scout walking a coastal path (1 d, 960.9 — Domfil «Going for a walk»; Colnect titled the value «Scout, Sea Scout, Air Scout», but the third figure wears a beret and is not an Air Scout); a portrait of Crown Prince Constantine in Scout uniform (2.50 d, 960.10); and the Greek Scout flag beside a medal with the phoenix and the motto ΑΜΥΝΕΣΘΕ ΠΕΡΙ ΠΑΤΡΗΣ (6 d, 960.11).
SOSOW quantities are 20 l 1,387,204; 30 l 813,043; 40 l 1,663,202; 50 l 2,616,036; 70 l 468,723; 1 d 3,247,047; 2.50 d 2,544,469; 6 d 377,944. Further references are Scott GR 669–676, Michel GR 726–733, Yvert GR 705–712 and Stanley Gibbons GR 829–836.