Three Scouts
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1979.BEN.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Surcharge on the African Jamboree design
1979.BEN.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Benin (BEN)- Year / date
- 1979
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 50 f
- 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
- Claude Andréotto
- Printer
- Delrieu, Paris
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12½
- Size
- 50 x 30 mm
Catalog numbers
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BJ 446C
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BJ C198
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BJ 743b
Notes
Landscape 50 × 30 mm: three Scouts stand with their arms across one another's shoulders before foliage. Circular Scout fleur-de-lis at upper left. Inscribed REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU BENIN, POSTES and JAMBOREE AFRICAIN JOS, NIGERIA 1976. Signed C. ANDREOTTO and DELRIEU. The face value 50 F appears at the right, as a new value on the three-Scout design. Offset lithography, comb perforated 12½.
Series history
In 1979 the People's Republic of Benin released the three-Scout African Jamboree design with a new face value of 50 francs. The stamp remains inscribed REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU BENIN, POSTES and JAMBOREE AFRICAIN JOS, NIGERIA 1976, with the circular Scout fleur-de-lis, the signatures C. ANDREOTTO and DELRIEU, and three Scouts standing with their arms across one another's shoulders. Claude Andréotto designed the original; Delrieu, Paris, printed it in offset lithography, comb perforated 12½, 50 × 30 mm, without watermark. Sources give the year 1979 but no day of issue.