U.N. Children Fund

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, also known as the UNICEF or the U.N. Children’s Fund was established in 1953 to provide humanitarian and developmental aid to children throughout the world.

UNICEF’s work includes providing immunizations, preventing diseases, and treating children and their mothers for many illnesses and viruses. It also includes improving the nutrition and sanitation for children and pregnant women. They help with education and emergency assistance during disasters.

The three stamps in the middle of a bird feed baby birds in a nest, are stamps commemorating and promoting UNICEF.

Note

At this point, U.N. is producing more colorful stamps – much like the stamps in the U.S. for the same period. They still don’t have good designers, though. But some of them are pretty good and they’re getting better.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Economic Commission

1.1	✓	95	Economic Comm. for Africa	4c (oct 1961) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	93	Economic Comm. for Latin America	4c (sep 1961) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	96	Economic Comm. for Africa	11c (oct 1961) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	94	Economic Comm. for Latin America	11c (sep 1961) comm., multicolor

U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

3.1.	✓	97	U.N. Children Fund	3c (dec 1961) comm., multicolor
3.2.	✓	98	U.N. Children Fund	4c (dec 1961) comm., multicolor
3.3.	✓	99	U.N. Children Fund	13c (dec 1961) comm., multicolor

Comm. on Housing, Building & Planning

4.1	✓	100	Housing & Community Facilities	4c (feb 1962) comm., blue & multicolor
5.1	✓	101	Housing & Community Facilities	7c (feb 1962) comm., orange & multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.