✓ In collectionPostalStamp75 p - Afghanistan - Pul
Boy Scout portrait
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1962.AFG.02-07- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Boy Scout Service
1962.AFG.02· piece 7 of 16 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Afghanistan (AFG)- Year / date
- 1962-10-25
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 75 p - Afghanistan - Pul
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- Colors
- Orange-brown | Ocre
- 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.
- 12
- Printing
- Photogravure
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 962.108
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- AF C34
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- AF 701A
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- AF PA34
Series history
Afghanistan issued eight Boy Scout Service stamps at Kabul on 25 October 1962, sold only on the day of issue. Assadullah Safi's design shows a scout in forage cap and neckerchief beside the fleur-de-lis in a wreath, with the bilingual inscription Boy Scout 1962. Ordinary postage values are 1, 2, 3 and 4 puls; airmails are 25, 50, 75 and 100 puls. The same eight designs exist imperforate.
Print runs are given as 400,000 of each postage value and 20,000 of each airmail. Austrian State Printing Office; photogravure; perforated 12.
