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Dear friends !
During the twelve months of 2006 I will present interesting items of the
twelve oldest Volleyball stamps. I hope you will be
interested in them. Today we continue with the eighth part (August), another stamp
from
Bulgaria. If you have any interesting covers or other material to
enrich this site, please let me know.
Gunter
The eighth Volleyball stamp issued worldwide comes from
Bulgaria, after our March-item-of-the-month the second stamp from this
country. It was issued on December 28th, 1954 to celebebrate
the 50th anniversary of the trade union movement in Bulgaria.
It shows a worker resting in an armchair at the Velingrad recreation
centre as well as some people playing volleyball. It is a commemorative stamp with a face value of
16 Stotinki. It has comb perforation 13 and no watermark. 150.000
stamps were printed in photogravure, and the issue was designed by
St. Sotirov. It was the lowest value in a three-stamp-issue.
This registered letter was sent from Sofia on the first day of issue of the stamp. It was franked with three of the stamps presented this month. The letter was sent to Anka Michailova, whose address was "Osma Drushina, 4; Veliko Trnovo".
