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BANGLADESH
Issue Date: October 1997.
[Boy Scout] Single stamp issue.

BURKINA FASO
Issue Dates: Two sets in 1997.
[Boy Scouts] <Semi-postal> One set honors the 90th Anniversary of Scouting with an overprint on the 1995 Burkina Faso Mushroom issue for the 18th World Jamboree.  The other is a Princess Diana minisheet of 9...one value shows Diana with a boy in Brazil, wearing a Scout T-shirt (how's that for sharp eyesight?)
Available: set of Silver and Gold overprints, with 8 stamp values, SS, compounds and imperfs, minisheet.

CHAD
Issue Date: Either late 1997 or early 1998
[Boy Scout] The six stamps are printed in 3 odd little minisheets of 6 stamps.  There is no marginal Scout inscription in the minisheets.  The layout is bizarre, which does create several different possible setenant combinations.  The layout gives you the possibility of four different setenant combinations on each sheetlet.  The stamps have actual Scouts and a large Chad Scout emblem in the center, in addition to butterflies, mushrooms and flowers.
Available: 6 values perf, imperfs, 3 perf compounds, 3 imperf compounds.

EGYPT
Issue Date: November 24, 1997
[Boy Scouts] This 75p airmail stamp was issued to commemorate the 85th Anniversary of Arab Scouting.  A total of 150,000 stamps printed by photo offset in sheets of 50 (five across by ten high).
Available: single stamp, used stamp, Scout inscription corner block with 4 stamps, announcement folder with stamp, Scout FD cancel, and FD cover.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Issue Date: 1997
[Boy Scout] This is an overprinted souvenir sheet issue.

GUNIEA
Issue Date: 1997
[Girl Guides] Diana minisheet with one value Diana with Girl Guides taking her photo.
Available: minisheet

KENYA
Issue date: September 10, 1997.
Available: 8 values stamp, FDC, gutter pairs.

OMAN
  Issue Date: November 30, 1997
[Girl Guides] This is a 100 baisa single stamp for the Silver Jubilee of Omani Girl Guides (1972-1997).  The Omani Scout emblem combines both GG and BS emblems, so both the stamp and the FDC are collected by both GG only, BS only and general Scout collectors.  Printed by multicolor offset in sheets of 50...five across by ten high.
Available: single, serial number corner block, FDC with Scout cancel.

PHILIPPINES
Issue Date: August 17, 1997
[Boy Scouts] This stamp honors the 2nd General Assembly of the World Scout Parliamentary Union.  The Assembly was held from August 17th to the 22nd.  Stamp is a multicolor, printed photo offset in sheets of 50...ten across by 5 down.  FD cover is government produced and had a commemorative Scout cancel for the event and a multicolor cachet.
Available: single stamp, serial number corner block, FD Cover.

ROMANIA
Issue Date: October 25, 1997
[Boy Scouts] This issue honors Scouting in Romania.  A setenant strip of 5, printed in sheets of 5 horizontal strips (one strip across by five strips high).  EACH row is tete beche (reversed) with the next plus there are two same Scout inscriptions (Romanian Scouts) in Romanian  in left margin.  The bottom margin of the sheet has five different Scout emblems printed in green across the bottom.  The entire sheet is too tall for an album page, being over 12 inches high.
Available: Setenant strip of 5.  Entire sheet of 5 alternate tete beche strips, FDC, and multicolor FD maxi cards.

TOGO
Issue Date:
Available: 3 sheetlets and two souvenir sheets

TURKISH CYPRUS
Issue Date: December 22, 1997
[Girl Guides & Scouts] This  single 40,000 Turkish lira stamp (part of a unrelated set of 4 Anniversaries issue) is for the 90th Anniversary of World Scouting.
Printed in sheets of 40 (4 across by 10 high) by offset, on watermarked paper, at State Printing House in Lefkosa.  Only 200,000 printed, designed by Huseyin Billur.  Photo depicts what appears to be three Girl Scouts planting a tree.  A commemorative Scout cancel was used on the first day cover as well.
Available: single stamp, stamp on FDC with Scout cancel,and announcement sheet.

TURKMENISTAN
Issue Date: October 7, 1997
[Girl Guides and Scouts] This combination Lady Diana/Girl Guides/Baden Powell souvenir sheet has inscription for the 90th Anniversary of Scouting.  This is one of the best full color printing jobs in quite awhile..a simply beautiful issue!
Available: perf souvenir sheet, sheet on FDC, and imperf souv sheet.