Campfire and costumes
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1971.OMN.02-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scout Jamboree 1971
1971.OMN.02· piece 3 of 6 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Oman (OMN)- Year / date
- 1971
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 8 b
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Multicolour
- 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.
- 13
- Size
- 60 × 43 mm
Notes
Two figures at a campfire, one in a white cloak of coloured squares with a staff, the other in a red-and-blue costume and green hood; large white fleur-de-lis on a green panel; inscribed JAMBOREE 1971; STATE OF OMAN; POSTAGE; SAMIR GHANTOUS; FABRICA DE TIMBRE-BUCURESTI; 8 B.
Series history
Labels inscribed STATE OF OMAN and JAMBOREE 1971 appeared in 1971 in five values and a souvenir sheet. Each piece names Samir Ghantous and Fabrica de Timbre, Bucharest. The 4, 6 and 8 baisa are inscribed POSTAGE and show a Scout bugler before tents and a snow-capped mountain, two Scouts cooking over a stone hearth, and two figures in costume at a campfire. The 10 and 12 baisa and the 40 baisa sheet are inscribed AIR MAIL: a Scout signalling with flags, a portrait of Robert Baden-Powell, and on the sheet a Scout with a flag before Mount Fuji and pagodas, tents in the margin. They are not an issue of a postal administration.
