Pioneer and leader
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1974.BGR.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 30th Anniversary of Septemvriyche
1974.BGR.01· piece 1 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Bulgaria (BGR)- Year / date
- 1974-08-12
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 1 st
- 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
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13
- Quantity printed
- 1,000,000
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 974.55
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BG 2196
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BG 2359
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BG 2102
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BG 2343
Notes
Profiles of a woman and a Pioneer boy facing left, the boy in a white cap and red neckerchief, on a green field. Inscribed 30 ГОДИНИ ДПО „СЕПТЕМВРИЙЧЕ“, НР БЪЛГАРИЯ, ПОЩА vertically, and 1 ст.
Series history
Bulgaria issued two commemoratives and a souvenir sheet on 12 August 1974 for the thirtieth anniversary of the Dimitrov Pioneer Organisation Septemvriyche. They are photogravure. The stamps are comb perforated 13, one million of each; the sheet measures 60 × 84 mm, is frame perforated 13, and was printed in two hundred thousand copies. Sources give no designer or printer.
Each stamp is headed 30 ГОДИНИ ДПО „СЕПТЕМВРИЙЧЕ“, with НР БЪЛГАРИЯ and ПОЩА. The 1 stotinka shows a woman and a Pioneer boy in a red neckerchief, in profile on green. The 2 stotinki shows a girl Pioneer reaching toward three white doves, on blue. The souvenir sheet carries a 60 stotinki stamp of the organisation’s badge — a red star with Georgi Dimitrov and the motto ВИНАГИ ГОТОВ! — and, below it, ЗА ДЕЛОТО НА СОЦИАЛИЗМА, ЗА ЩАСТИЕТО НА НАШАТА РОДИНА, БЪДИ ГОТОВ! and two doves.