Scouts cooking at a campfire
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1980.LBY.01-03- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 8th Pan-Arab Girl Guide and 14th Pan-Arab Scout Jamborees
1980.LBY.01· piece 3 of 6 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Libya (LBY)- Year / date
- 1980-08-22
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 50 d
- 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
- M. Sialah
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 13¼
- Size
- 36 × 46 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 980.59
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- LY 863
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- LY 831
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- LY 872
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- LY 1008
Notes
Purple frame. Three Scouts cooking over a campfire; one holds a frying pan. Backpack, helmet, rope and flags at left. Lettered SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA and 14th PAN ARAB SCOUT JAMBOREE AUGUST 1980. 50 dirhams.
Series history
Libya issued four stamps and two souvenir sheets on 22 August 1980, lettered SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA, for the eighth Pan-Arab Girl Guide Jamboree and the fourteenth Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree, both dated August 1980 on the stamps. M. Sialah designed the issue. Offset lithography, comb perforated 13¼; the stamps measure 36 × 46 mm and the sheets 67 × 95 mm. The printer is not established.
The 15 and 30 dirhams are inscribed 8th PAN ARAB GIRL GUIDE JAMBOREE: Girl Guides examining a plant, in an orange frame; two Girl Guides cooking at camp, in a red frame. The 50 and 115 dirhams are inscribed 14th PAN ARAB SCOUT JAMBOREE: Scouts cooking over a campfire, in a purple frame; two Scouts reading a map in the desert, in a green frame.
The 100 dirham souvenir sheets repeat the plant and campfire designs. The Guides sheet has a beige margin; the Scouts sheet a green one. Each carries the jamboree emblem above the stamp and the Libyan Scout and Guide badge — a trefoil with a palm tree and wings — below.
