Scout and girl with the Thai flag
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1978.THA.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- National Children's Day
1978.THA.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Thailand (THA)- Year / date
- 1978-01-09
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 75 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.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Designer
- Prance Nimsamur
- Printer
- Government Printing Bureau, Tokyo
- Process
- Photogravure
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¼
- Quantity printed
- 6,000,000
- Size
- 48 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- TH 839
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- TH 860
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- TH 833
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- TH 944
Notes
Landscape. Inscribed CHILDREN’S DAY 1978, THAILAND, ประเทศไทย, วันเด็กแห่งชาติ ๒๕๒๑, 75 ST., ๗๕ สต. and POSTAGE. A boy in a Scout cap with a fleur-de-lis and a girl climb a tan slope holding a Thai flag against a blue sky. Photogravure, comb 13¼, 48 × 30 mm.
Series history
Thailand issued a single commemorative on 9 January 1978 for National Children’s Day. The stamp is landscape, 48 × 30 mm, lettered CHILDREN’S DAY 1978 and THAILAND, with ประเทศไทย and วันเด็กแห่งชาติ ๒๕๒๑ at the left and 75 ST. / ๗๕ สต. POSTAGE.
Prance Nimsamur designed it. The Government Printing Bureau, Tokyo, printed 6,000,000 copies by photogravure, comb perforated 13¼, in panes of 50, on paper watermarked with zigzag lines, upright.
A boy in a Scout cap with a fleur-de-lis and a girl in a blue skirt climb a tan slope, together holding a pole with the Thai flag against a blue sky.