Scout and space capsule
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1967.YEM.01-07- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 12th World Scout Jamboree, Idaho
1967.YEM.01· piece 7 of 15 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Yemen (YEM)- Year / date
- 1967-09-10
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 20 b
- 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.
- Comb 13
- Printing
- Offset
- Size
- 33 x 46 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 967.138
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- YE-K 371A
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- A 63
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- R307
Series history
The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen issued seven stamps at Qara on 10 September 1967 for the 12th World Scout Jamboree, held in Idaho, United States. The set was printed by offset lithography, comb perforated 13, and also released imperforate, in a common vertical format of about 33 × 46 mm. Ten thousand copies of each stamp value are recorded, and eight thousand of the souvenir sheet. Designer and printer are not established. The postal status of the issue is disputed.
The four postage values show a Scout bugler before tents (¼ b and 4 b) and a cooking pot hanging over a camp fire among tents (½ b and 6 b). The three airmail values show a green Scout fleur-de-lis before the red Mutawakkilite flag with white sword and stars (⅛ b and 10 b), and a Scout with staff looking up at a space capsule in flight (20 b). An imperforate souvenir sheet carries the 20 b design on a yellow ground patterned with white fleurs-de-lis, with the kingdom’s flag and bilingual Jamboree 1967 inscriptions in the margins. The stamps are inscribed THE MUTAWAKKELITE KINGDOM OF YEMEN.