COVER N. 518 - SRI LANKA

Postmark: Headquarters P. O. Colombo Mail 10.09.24

Posted on the 28th September; Received on the 3rd October 2024

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A circuit from Sri Lanka with a few more stamps from the Boy scouts and Girl Guides issue that was the theme of cover #484. Bohomȧ  sthoothi, Ravindra!vindra!

The Scout movement was, as it is well known, the brainchild of Sir Baden-Powell, who in 1907 oriented a first encampment for young boys in the Island of Brownsea, with 20 participants, in which he set the bases for what would become a worldwide movement aiming at the development of young boys and girls within a stong set of positive values.

Originally a boys only organisation, Baden-Powell would later found the feminine counterpart of the movement, the Girl Guides, in 1910 but things have slowly evolved and I believe that nowadays in most if not all countries both Scouts and Guides organisations  admit any children irrespective of sex to its ranks.

The three stamps on the cover are part of a ten x 50 Rupee stamp set dedicated to the Scouting Movement in Sri Lanka, issued on 21FEB2024.  The stamps have been issued both as a single mini-sheet with the 10 stamps or as 2 x 5 stamp souvenir sheets, one dedicated to Boy Scouts and the other to Girl Guides, the sheets being shaped cut in the format of both organisations emblems.