✓ In collectionPostalStamp175 ؋ - Pul Afegão
Girl Guide salute
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1962.AFG.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Women's Day — Girl Guides
1962.AFG.01· piece 2 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Afghanistan (AFG)- Year / date
- 1962-08-30
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 175 ؋ - Pul Afegão
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Yellow-Oliva | Orange-brown
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 11½ × 12
- Printing
- Photogravure
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 962.39
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AF C16
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AF 640
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AF PA17
Series history
Afghanistan issued stamps at Kabul on 30 August 1962 for Women's Day. The Scout theme appears on the two airmail values that show a Girl Guide giving the salute (100 and 175 puls), labelled Scout on the stamps. A commemorative souvenir sheet gathers four values of the issue — traditional costumes at 25 and 50 puls and the two Guide airmails — around a floral panel under the heading Journée des Femmes 1962, total face 350 puls.
Print runs are given as 20,000 of each airmail and 15,000 souvenir sheets. Austrian State Printing Office; photogravure; perforated 11½ × 12.
