✓ In collectionPostalStamp40 h
Girl Scout — salute
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1961.KOR.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 15th Anniversary of the Girl Scouts of Korea
1961.KOR.01· piece 1 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Korea (South) (KOR)- Year / date
- 1961-05-10
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 40 h
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- 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
- Choon Whan Kang
- Printer
- Government Printing Agency
- Process
- Lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13½
- Size
- 43 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 961.9
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- KR 325
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- KR 325
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- KR 254
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- KR 396
Notes
Girl Scout saluting before camp tents with GSK trefoil
Series history
South Korea issued a 40 hwan commemorative at Seoul on 10 May 1961 for the fifteenth anniversary of the Girl Scouts of Korea.
Choon Whan Kang designed the stamp: a Girl Scout giving the three-finger salute before a camp of tents, with the Girl Scouts of Korea trefoil (GSK) and the Korean postal emblem at the head. The date 4294.5.10 appears at upper left. The printing is green lithography on granite paper watermarked with the Korean postal emblem.
The Government Printing Agency produced 500,000 stamps in panes of fifty, perforated 13½, and an imperforate souvenir sheet of 50,000. An imperforate single is also known.