Camp cooking and flower
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1972.TCD.01-04- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Scout activities
1972.TCD.01· piece 4 of 16 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Chad (TCD)- Year / date
- 1972-05-15
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 100 f
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Agency airmail
- 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.
- Comb 13½
- Printing
- Lithography
- Size
- 60 × 43 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 972.98
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- TD C118
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- TD 531A
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- TD A120
Notes
A Scout at a cooking fire under a wooden tripod, others gathering wood in camp; a large five-petalled flower at right. Inscribed POSTE AERIENNE, 100F, REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD. Signed SAMIR GHANTOUS; FABRICA DE TIMBRE-BUCURESTI.
Series history
Chad issued five stamps and a 250 franc airmail souvenir sheet at Fort-Lamy on 15 May 1972. Samir Ghantous designed Scout scenes paired with wildlife: a handshake with pennants and a squirrel (30 francs), a climber and a kite (70 francs), canoeists and a fish (80 francs), camp cooking and a flower (100 francs airmail), and Baden-Powell with a fleur-de-lis (120 francs airmail). The souvenir sheet shows Scouts in grassland, with an ostrich and a palm in the margin. Fabrica de Timbre in Bucharest printed the issue by lithography, comb perforated 13½. Imperforate stamps also exist, as do imperforate souvenir sheets of the five stamp designs.