Guides — globe and flags
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1970.BHS.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Girl Guides Diamond Jubilee
1970.BHS.01· piece 1 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Bahamas (BHS)- Year / date
- 1970-02-23
- 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
- Mrs. Robert Sands
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 14½
- Panes
- 50
- Size
- 27 × 27 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 970.1
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BS 298
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BS 303
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BS 287
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BS 342
Notes
Diamond stamp. Globe ringed by figures holding hands; crossed flags (Guide trefoil and Blue Ensign) on a yellow ground with a dark blue border. E II R crown; DIAMOND JUBILEE GIRL GUIDES; 1910 / 1970; BAHAMAS GUIDES.
Series history
The Bahamas issued three diamond-shaped commemoratives at Nassau on 23 February 1970 for the Diamond Jubilee of the Girl Guides (1910–1970). Mrs. Robert Sands, a member of the Bahamas Girl Guide Executive Committee, designed the set from sketches supplied by Guide groups. Harrison & Sons of London printed it by offset lithography in panes of fifty (ten rows of five), comb perforated 14½, 27 × 27 mm, on paper watermarked St. Edward's Crown and CA multiple. Each stamp is inscribed DIAMOND JUBILEE GIRL GUIDES and the years 1910 and 1970, with the royal cypher E II R under a crown.
The 3 c (BAHAMAS GUIDES) shows a globe ringed by figures holding hands and crossed flags — a Guide trefoil and a Blue Ensign — on a yellow ground with a dark blue border. The 12 c (BAHAMAS BROWNIES) shows a stylised Brownie among yellow flowers and a trefoil. The 15 c (BAHAMAS RANGERS) shows a yellow trefoil behind a globe and a SERVICE banner on a teal ground.