STAMP ISSUES RELATED TO ICAO (1945-1977)

 

Cameroon : 20th Anniversary of ICAO

 

Issue date: 15/03/1967

 

 

Aircraft and ICAO emblem.

This stamp shows two errors:   

  1. "de l'" is missing in the French name of the Organization, which should be written Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale. Moreover, only the first word of the name should be capitalized.
  2. The ICAO logo must include four concentric circles. The design on this stamp displays only three circles.

     

 

 

Imperfs (pair and block of 4).

 

Deluxe sheet.

 

Deluxe sheet signed by Claude Haley, Designer.

First Day Cover. Editor: SO.GE.IM.

Errors in the ICAO emblem:

1.    The ICAO logo must include four concentric circles. The design on this cover displays only three circles. The correct ICAO emblem is shown at the opposite left.

2.    The outer circle of the emblem is not a perfect circumference. Moreover, in the lower part of the emblem, there should be two portions of circle, as the wings with their portions of circumference are applied on the UN emblem.

3.    "de l'" is missing in the French name of the Organization. Should be Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale.

 

 

Background: This stamp is part of a set of two stamps (see picture here-below) issued at the same date. The second one commemorates the 10th anniversary of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); the IAEA is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organisation on 29 July 1957.

 

 

ICAO provided instructions to the Contracting States to commemorate its 20th anniversary on 7 December 1964, corresponding to the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, in Chicago. This country still calculated the 20th anniversary on the basis of the constitution of the new permanent International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on 4 April 1947; this is considered as an error.