✓ In collectionPostalStamp50 f
Girl Guides
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1968.YEM.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Girl Guides
1968.YEM.01· piece 3 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Yemen (YEM)- Year / date
- 1968-09-21
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 50 f
- 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
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13½
- Printing
- Lithography
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 968.35
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- YE-SO 21
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- YE-SO 35
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- YE-SO 21
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- YE-SO 21
Notes
Three Guides in uniform standing before camping tents
Series history
The People's Republic of Southern Yemen issued three commemoratives on 21 September 1968 publicising Girl Guiding. Each stamp is inscribed PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC of SOUTHERN YEMEN and GIRL GUIDES, with the corresponding Arabic legends.
The 10 fils shows Guides at a campsite tending a campfire, with a Girl Guide trefoil flag among trees behind them. The 25 fils is a vertical design with three younger Guides in uniform standing before a stone wall. The 50 fils shows three Guides in uniform standing before camping tents.
Designed by Victor Whiteley and printed in lithography by Bradbury Wilkinson in panes of 50; comb perforation 13½.