✓ In collectionPostalStamp10 y
Guide and flag
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1963.JPN.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 1st Asian Girl Guides Camp
1963.JPN.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Japan (JPN)- Year / date
- 1963-08-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 10 y
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Multicolour
- 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
- Hitoshi Otsuka
- Printer
- Government Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- 13½
- Size
- 26 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 963.24
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- JP 794
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- JP 836
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- JP 752
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- JP 939
Notes
Girl Guide saluting before a blue flag with the World Association trefoil
Series history
Japan issued a 10 yen commemorative at Togakushi on 1 August 1963 for the first Asian Girl Guides camp. Hitoshi Otsuka designed a Guide in light-blue uniform giving the three-finger salute before a blue flag bearing the World Association trefoil. The Government Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance printed the stamp by photogravure in panes of twenty, perforated 13½; about 13.5 million were issued. Specimen stamps with the みほん (mihon) overprint also exist.