Seal of Bahamas
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1967.BHS.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Diamond Jubilee of World Scouting
1967.BHS.01· piece 1 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Bahamas (BHS)- Year / date
- 1967-09-01
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 3 c
- Format
- Stamp
- 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
- Richard Granger Barrett
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 14½ × 13
- Panes
- 50
- Size
- 42 x 28 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 967.16
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BS 267
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BS 272
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BS 256
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BS 310
Notes
Seal of the Bahamas (sailing ship under crown, EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA) over a globe grid; Queen Elizabeth II and Baden-Powell portraits above; small Scout fleur-de-lis at lower left. Also found with sideways-left watermark.
Series history
The Bahamas issued two commemoratives at Nassau on 1 September 1967 for the diamond jubilee of world Scouting (1907–1967). Richard Granger Barrett designed the set; Joh. Enschedé printed it by photogravure in panes of fifty on paper watermarked St. Edward's Crown and CA multiple, comb perforated 14½ × 13. Each value had a print run of 1,500,000. Copies of the 3 c are also known with a sideways-left watermark.
Both stamps share a black upper band with BAHAMAS and circular portraits of Queen Elizabeth II (left) and Lord Baden-Powell (right), over a yellow lower field inscribed 1907 DIAMOND JUBILEE OF WORLD SCOUTING 1967. The 3 c centres the Seal of the Bahamas — a sailing ship under a crown within the motto EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA — over a faint globe grid, with a small Scout fleur-de-lis at lower left. The 15 c reverses the emphasis: a large red-and-gold Scout fleur-de-lis with a BOY SCOUTS scroll over the same globe grid, and a small shield with the Bahamas seal at lower left.