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The International Federation of Scout and Guide Stamp Collecting Organizations (IFSCO) Classifications of Boy Scout & Girl Scout new postage stamps and postal stationery issues is provided for your reference.

BANGLADESH
7th Bangladesh and the 4th SAARC Scout Jamboree, held 5-12th January 2004 in Bangladesh.
Issue Date: 6 January 2004.
Designer: Mr. Syeed Bin Salam
Printers: The Security Printing Corp.(BD), Gazipur.
1v stamp, value 2tk.
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BANGLADESH
Sixth National Cub Camporee.
Issue Date: 26 December 2004.
Designer, Anowar Hossain; offset in sheets of 100, Bangladesh Security Printing.
1v stamp, value 6tk.
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BRUNEI
21st Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Conference, to be held at the Brunei International Convention Centre, 06-11 December 2004.
Issue Date: 06 December 2004, according to the published conference agenda.

EGYPT
90th Anniversary of the Egyptian Scout Movement.
Issue Date: 15 August 2004.
Value 30 pi.  Design includes Scout emblem. National Postal Printing House.
Printer: The Printing - House of the National Postal Organization - AR of Egypt.
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EGYPT
24th Arab Scouting Conference.
Issue Date: 27 November 2004.
Value 30 pi. Design includes Scouts, tent, emblem. National Postal Organization of Egypt.
Designer, Mahmoud Youssri; offset, quantity 100,000.
Printer: The Printing - House of the National Postal Organization - AR of Egypt.
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EGYPT
Golden Jubilee of Arab Scouting Organization 1954-2004.
Issue Date: 4 December 2004.
Value 30 pi. National Postal Organization of Egypt.
Design includes emblems of the organization, anniversary.
Designer, Rasha El Zonkoli; offset, quantity 100,000.
Printer: The Printing - House of the National Postal Organization - AR of Egypt.
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GHANA
Norman Rockwell 25th Death Anniversary/Boy Scout Art.
Issue Date: March 18, 2004.
Illustrations of Girl and Boy Scouts from 1971 Boy Scout calendar; souvenir sheet with 20,000c stamp, Good Friends, 1927, showing Boy Scout and dogs. 4v se-tenant 7,000c stamps, S/S. Offset.
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NEVIS
50th Anniversary Guiding on Nevis.  Honoring the Nevis Branch of the St Kitts-Nevis Girl Guide Association on the celebration of their 50th Anniversary.
Issue Date: 22 February 2004.
4v: 30 cents: an assortment of Badges awarded to Guides,
90 cents: Mrs Gwendolyn Douglas-Jones, past Guide Commissioner and Miss Bridget Hunkins, the present International Commissioner,
$1.20: a photograph of Lady Olave Baden Powell, the founder of the Girl Guide Movement,
$5.00: photographs of young and older Girl Guides on Nevis along with the Jubilee Logo that declares 'Honouring the Past ... Investing in the Future'.
Designer: Mordechai Friedman,
Printers: BDT International Security Printing,
Printing: Offset Lithography.
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ROMANIA
World Organizations - National Organization Romanian Scouts.
Issue Date: 8 December 2004.
4v set commemorating Scouts, Lion International, and the Red Cross. 12,000 lei.
Printed by Tipografia Postei Romane.
Printing: Offset.
First Day Covers: 1050.
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SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE
World Jamboree, Issued 2004. 9v M/S, stamp designs using Pierre Joubert Scout postcard illustrations, with photos of birds, flowers, butterflies, WJ03 logo.
Issue Date: 2004.
Authenticity questioned.
See M/S

SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE
Euro Escutismo 2004.
1v S/S and 4v M/S, stamp designs from Norman Rockwell Boys Life paintings.
Issue Date: 2004.
Authenticity questioned.
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TANZANIA
Girl Guiding in Tanzania.
Issue Date: 15 May 2004.
5v: 300, 400, 600, 800, 1000 TZS, and 1000 TSZ M/S.
Designs include: Guides demonstrating environment friendly solar cookers, camp training, bravery training, and Guides assisting at a mother/chiled clinic.  Tanzania Posts Corporation,
Printers: Calcutta Security Printers Pty Ltd.
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TURKEY
Boy Scouting & Girl Guiding.
Issue Date: September 30, 2004.
2 Values, 600.000 Lira and 700.00 Lira with 50.000 Lira surcharge.
Quantity: 250,000 each design.
Designs include illustration of a Boy Scout or Girl Guide with Scout/Guide combined logo.
Designer: Baran Baran.
Printed by Ajans-Turk.
FDC, Postal Announcement and Handout.
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BELGIUM
The Beaver Patrol (Patrouille des Castors) by Mitacq (Michel Tacq), postal stationary card sold € 0,50 prior stamp Albert II type MVTM, no postal value on stamp, card with permanent validity.
Issue Date: November 3, 2004.
Items sold at postshops, philatelic counters, New Retail Format postal offices.
There is no special first day cancellation.
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FINLAND
Priority prepaid card for ABOEX 2004, postal exhibition held at Turku (Turun Messu- ja Kongressikeskus).
Issue Date: April 23, 2004.
Design of postal mark features a Scout leather belt.
Cachet also depicts cartoon of Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Scout Leader on a horse with a tent in the background.
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ROMANIA
The Romanian National Ranger Jamboree, held 16-22 August 2004 in Constanta, 70 years after the World Jamboree held in the same location. 6 stationery postcards with some illustrations by Márton, imprinted stamps with Scout logo.
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A local post is an independent mail system or service not operated by a Postal System that is a member of the U.P.U.

Great Britain Scout Christmas Posts are issued each year.
Scout and Guide Charity Christmas Posts

Use of "P" or personalized stamps has become a popular way to commemorate a local Scout event or activity, but these are not official Scout issues by postal agencies or catalogued as Scout stamps.

Cinderellas are "labels that are not issued by a federal government for the purpose of paying postage."  Many of these are privately printed or overprinted stamps by dealers, so they never had any postal value or use.  Their production and sale is banned by the U.P.U. and member states.

BENIN
UPU International Bureau Circular #30, 2 February 2004.
•2x M/S with butterflies, Scout logo.

REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO
Multiple M/S & S/S with WOSM logo or Baden Powell image.  Unnecessary issue designs include:
•Dinosaurs, Minerals, Scout logo 8v M/S
•Fungi, Owls, Scout logo 6v M/S
•Owls 2v M/S. Albert Schweitzer and Scout logo on selvage.
•Lions, Scout logo 9v M/S
•Wolves, Scout logo 9v M/S
•Tigers, Scout logo 9v M/S
•Pandas, Scout logo 9v M/S
•Elephants, Scout logo 9v M/S
•Orchids, Scout logo 6v M/S
•Minerals on gold foil, Scout image S/S
•Baden Powell on silver foil, Scout image on selvage S/S
•Pope John Paul II/Flowers/Scout logo 2v on 2x M/S
•Butterflies, Cats 12v M/S. Baden Powell is pictured on selvage.
•Butterflies, Orchids, 2v on x2 M/S. Baden Powell is pictured with flowers on selvage.
•Lighthouse, Butterfly, Scout logo 2v M/S. Selvage includes photo of Scouts, Australian Scout logo, and Australian Jamboree 2004 logo.
•Seagulls 2v x2 M/S. Selvage includes lighthouse photo, Australian Scout logo, and Australian Jamboree 2004 logo.
•“Sur Salt Sea Island,” 1v S/S with American Eagle, Scout logo.
•“Birds of the Atlantic,” 1v S/S with seagull, Scout logo.
•"Birds of the Spanish Valley Pyrenees," 1v S/S with eagle, Scout logo.
•"Birds from the Mills and Meadows of the East", 3x 1v S/S with birds, Scout logo.
•"Birds of the Antarctic," S/S with penguins, Scout logo.

REPUBLIQUE DU TCHAD
•M/S 4v, M/S 2v, S/S.  Carl von Linn is pictured on these stamps along with a Scout working with nature.  The miniature sheet of two stamps pictures Jules Verne in addition to von Linn.

REPUBLIQUE DE COTE D'IVOIRE
UPU International Bureau Circular #63, 23 February 2004.
•At least 3v stamp designs of owls with Scout logo, 100F, 200F, 300F.

REPUBLIQUE DE DJIBOUTI
UPU International Bureau Circular #226, 26 July 2004.
•M/S depicting Baden Powell. 2v stamp designs of Girl Scouts, Boy Scout with Cub Scouts.

SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE
World Scout Jamboree.
9v M/S with Orchids, Birds and Butterflies in design.

These are stamps or labels that contain design features that could be easily mistaken as a Scout stamp.

SCOTLAND
4 labels on a M/S.  Girl Guiding - East Lothing.
Private printing by the Scottish Philatelic Trade Association and the Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies.

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