Scout fleur-de-lis — Pro Culture surcharge
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1968.HTI.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Pro Culture surcharge
1968.HTI.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Haiti (HTI)- Year / date
- 1968-07-04
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 1.00 + 0.10 G - Haiti - Gourde
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Charity airmail
- Colors
- Multicoloured; surcharge in red or black
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- Printer
- Local overprint (base: Giesecke, Germany)
- Process
- Offset lithography (base); local overprint
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 11½
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 968.29
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- HT CB59
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- HT 959
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- HT PA377
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- HT 1075
Notes
December 1967 Scout-emblem airmail (white fleur-de-lis with palm and ÊTRE PRÊT banner in a green circle, reef knot at left, three Scouts below) surcharged for Pro Culture: overprint CULTURE and +0.10 on the 1.00 face; inscribed REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI, POSTE AERIENNE.
Series history
Haiti released at Port-au-Prince on 4 July 1968 an airmail semi-postal for a Pro Culture campaign, produced by locally surcharging stamps of the December 1967 National Education series. The Scout-theme value is the 1.00 + 0.10 gourde: the 1.00 gourde Scout-emblem airmail is overprinted CULTURE with a +0.10 charity surcharge. The design shows a white fleur-de-lis with a palm and an ÊTRE PRÊT banner inside a green circle, a reef knot at left and three Scouts below, under REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI and POSTE AERIENNE. It is the Scout-bearing value of a three-stamp Pro Culture surcharge set; the companion values do not show Scout designs. The base stamp was printed by Giesecke in Germany in offset lithography, perforated Comb 11½; the surcharge was applied locally. Sources differ on whether the surcharge is printed in black or in red.