Scout by the camp-fire
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1981.BRA.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 4th Pan-American Scout Jamboree
1981.BRA.01· piece 1 of 3 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Brazil (BRA)- Year / date
- 1981-01-22
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 5 Cr
- 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
- Maria Lúcia Tavares Ramos
- Printer
- Casa da Moeda
- Process
- Offset lithography
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 11 × 11½
- Quantity printed
- 1,500,000
- Size
- 45 × 27 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 981.4
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- BR 1730
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- BR 1810
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- BR 1466
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- BR 1886
Notes
A Scout seen from behind, wearing a campaign hat and a light shirt, sits beside a camp-fire; a red-and-white ridge tent stands to the right. Scout emblem at upper right. Lettered Brasil81, 5,00 and 4.º JAMBOREE PANPANAMERICANO; plate signed LÚCIA T.V. RAMOS.
Series history
Brazil issued three 5 cruzeiro commemoratives on 22 January 1981, lettered 4.º JAMBOREE PANPANAMERICANO and Brasil81, each with the Scout emblem. Maria Lúcia Tavares Ramos designed them — the plates are signed LÚCIA T.V. RAMOS — and Casa da Moeda printed them by offset lithography, comb perforated 11 × 11½, 45 × 27 mm, without watermark, in panes of 55. Each design was printed in 1,500,000 copies. The stamps were withdrawn from sale on 1 January 1983.
The three designs, all the same face value, show a Scout in a campaign hat seated by a camp-fire; a Scout and a younger boy cooking beside ridge tents; and a Scout holding a staff against a field of tents. The 4th Pan-American Scout Jamboree opened that day at Parque Saint Hilaire in Porto Alegre.