Cedar fleur-de-lis (airmail)
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1962.LBN.01-08- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th Anniversary of Lebanese Scouting
1962.LBN.01· piece 8 of 8 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Lebanon (LBN)- Year / date
- 1962-03-03
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 25 p - Lebanon - Piastre
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Airmail
- 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
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13 × 13½
- Printing
- Offset
- Size
- 40 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 962.14
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LB C333
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LB 770
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LB PA244
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LB 742
Series history
Lebanon celebrated fifty years of Scouting with an eight-value set issued in Beirut on 1 March 1962. The ordinary postage denominations show a bugler (½ p), a scout with the Lebanese flag beside a cedar fleur-de-lis (1 p), stretcher-bearers (2½ p), a portrait of Baden-Powell (6 p), and two scouts at a campfire (10 p). Three airmail values follow: the cedar fleur-de-lis (15 p and 25 p) and the three-finger salute (20 p). Each stamp is bilingual French and Arabic under the heading Le Scoutisme au Liban, with the designer and printer credited in the margin as Shammout and Imp. Cortbawi.
Print runs are given as 250,000 of each value. Designer Ismail Shammout; Cortbawi; lithography in panes of 50. Perforation varies within the set: 13½ × 13 on the ½ p, 6 p and 20 p; 13 × 13½ on the remaining values.