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World Scout Jamboree 1957

Special roll s of stamps were produced, designed to serv ice first day covers
automatica lly. They were produced fro m di ffe rent cy linders fro m the sheet
stamps and were printed on continuous ree ls of paper.
The cylinders bore 126 impress ions in 2 1 rows of six. Regular stamps were in
20 rows, so any strip of 2 1 or more stamps is from a ro ll.
T he reels were cut so as to prov ide sin gle roll s of4800 stamps, nu mbered 1-6.

LI) The ro ll s of 4800 stamps were ava iIable for
sa le on request at the London Chief Office,
00 but, understandably, not many were so ld of
these huge ro ll s.
"'~= T he Post Offi ce fin ally relented to the
t=: feedback they were gettin g from customers
~i~ and ro ll s of 4800 were rewound into small er
<:11 ~ ~ roll s of 480 stamps fo r the 2 1/2d and 4d, and
...,00 ~ ~ roll s of 240 for the I s3d.

liil Left:
Coil leader ("wrapper") fo r No. 5 of the 480-
a:: stamps co ils of the 2Yid Boy Scout Jamboree
.~ stamps.
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c-::1 ~ Coi l end fo r No. 5 of the 480-stamps co ils of
;;... the 2Yid Boy Scout Jamboree stamps.
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[.............. ..., .,....,,... I00 co ils were printed of the 2 l/2d, and of
these were only 49 so ld.
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