Farm work
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1977.NGA.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 1st All-Africa Scout Jamboree
1977.NGA.01· piece 3 of 4 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Nigeria (NGA)- Year / date
- 1977-04-02
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 25 k
- 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
- Designer
- Austin Ogo Onwudimegwu
- Printer
- Nigerian Security Printing & Minting
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 14
- Size
- 42 x 25 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 977.6
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- NG 350
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- NG 333
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- NG 341
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- NG 371
Notes
Landscape. Inscribed 1ST ALL AFRICA SCOUT JAMBOREE - 1977. Two Scouts work the soil before maize under a cyan sky; the triangular jamboree badge is at lower right. Offset lithography, comb 14, 42 × 25 mm.
Series history
On 2 April 1977 Nigeria issued four commemoratives for the First All Africa Scout Jamboree. The stamps are inscribed 1977. Other issues for the same camp name Shere Hills, Jos, and date the gathering 1976. Accounts differ on the year of the camp itself.
Austin Ogo Onwudimegwu designed the 5 kobo, 25 kobo and 30 kobo. Nojim Lasisi designed the 18 kobo. The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting works printed the set by offset lithography, comb perforated 14, in panes of 50. The 5 kobo is recorded at 2,000,000; the other three values at 750,000 each.
The 5 kobo, upright at 25 × 42 mm, shows a Scout in a campaign hat and a Cub in green saluting each other before tents, with the triangular jamboree badge at upper right. The 18 kobo, landscape at 42 × 25 mm, is inscribed COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and shows three Scouts with a wheelbarrow and shovels beside the same badge. The 25 kobo shows two Scouts working the soil before maize, under a cyan sky. The 30 kobo pairs the triangular badge — World Scout fleur-de-lis, a map of Africa and a handshake — with a map of the continent whose arrows converge on West Africa.