Souvenir sheet — Baden-Powell block of four
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1965.NGA.01-05- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Golden Jubilee of the Boy Scouts of Nigeria
1965.NGA.01· piece 5 of 5 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Nigeria (NGA)- Year / date
- 1965-01-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 4 × 1 s 3 d
- Format
- Souvenir sheet
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- 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
- Designer
- Stephanos Apostolou
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Imperforate sheet (simulated perfs on stamps)
- Size
- 76 x 114 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 965.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NG 172a
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NG Bl 5
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NG BF5
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- NG MS160a
Notes
Four Baden-Powell stamps on a green surround inscribed BOY SCOUTS OF NIGERIA and GOLDEN JUBILEE 1915–1965
Series history
Nigeria issued four photogravure commemoratives at Lagos on 1 January 1965 for the golden jubilee of the Boy Scouts of Nigeria, marking fifty years from 1915. Harrison & Sons printed the stamps in panes of sixty, perforated 14 × 14½. Stephanos Apostolou designed the 1 penny — Scouts climbing a rocky slope beneath the national Scout badge — and the 1 shilling 3 pence — Lord Baden-Powell above a Nigerian Scout saluting before a yellow fleur-de-lis and palm foliage. H. G. N. Cowham designed the 3 pence, a red Scout fleur-de-lis on a heraldic shield dated 1915–1965. W. H. Irvine designed the 6 pence, the Boy Scouts of Nigeria badge with a cascade of proficiency badges. Quantities were 120,000 of the 1 penny, 372,000 of the 3 pence, 374,000 of the 6 pence and 124,000 of the 1 shilling 3 pence. A souvenir sheet places four of the Baden-Powell stamps on a green surround inscribed BOY SCOUTS OF NIGERIA and GOLDEN JUBILEE 1915–1965; the sheet is imperforate with simulated perforations on the stamps.