Mary Adshead

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World Scout Jubilee Jamboree, 1957

After a lapse of more than four years since the issue of the Coronation stamps, during which time the Post Office and the printers were busily involved with the production of definitive stamps (including a complete range in the new St Edward's Crown watermark), we were at last treated to a new commemorative set - three stamps for the World Scout jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield, issued on 1 August 1957. The event marked the 50th anniversary of Baden-Powell's first boys' camp on Brownsea Island, ie the founding of the Boy Scout Movement, and it coincided with the founder's birth centenary.

The symbolic designs were somewhat unintelligible to the general public, if not to scouts! Mary Adshead's ‘Scout Badge’, nicely balancing the ‘Wilding’ three-quarter face portrait of the Queen on the 2 1/2d carmine-red stamp, was familiar enough, but the significance of the encircling rope, ‘coiled to make a rolling hitch’ around what appeared to be a Venetian blind, mystified all except scouts and sailors. Mary Adshead, who had studied art at the Slade and had become primarily a mural painter, previously designed the 2 1/2d. UPU commemorative of 1949 the 2s 6d and 5s King George VI stamps of 1951, and the QE ‘Wilding’ 8d, 9d, 10d and 11d definitives.