Europa
Technical data
Stamp: EUROPA
Printing house: Joh. Enschede
Printing: offset
Paper: unwatermarked paper 102 gsm
Perforation: 14 3/4:14, comb
Colours: multi-coloured
Size: 40, 64/24, 31 mm
Sheets on: 25 (5x5)
Face value: 350 AMD
Print run: 100000 pieces per each
First Day Cover:
Designer: Vardan Vardanyan
Print run: 700
EUROPA 2007. The 100th anniversary of scout movement.
Scouting is a youth volunteer movement .The first scout union was created on the 16 the of November, 1918 in Constantinople in Armenian community and was called General Union of Armenian Physical Education. The scout groups have restarted acting from 1989 in the Republic of Armenia.
Philately has been considered as an "auxiliary science of history" because it is based on the general principles of other sciences, which in turn contribute to enrich it. It acquires knowledge of the sciences, of the arts, of languages and opens an immense road of social relations through all countries. This science broadens broad horizons of culture, discovers artistic temperaments and offers the interest of the new and the unknown, while performing a positive therapeutic wor.
