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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 tenth part (October), a
stamp from the former Soviet Union.
If you have any interesting covers or other material to
enrich this site, please let me know.
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Volleyball stamp number 16 of this
presentation comes from
the former Soviet Union. The
stamp was issued on August 5, 1956, to conmemorate the Spartakiad of the
peoples of the Soviet Union, which was held from August 5 to 16 of 1956 in
the Russian capital, Moscow. It shows an attacking player in the
foreground, and a blocking and another defending player in the background. The perforation is comb perforation
12 : 12 ½, the face value is 25 Kopecks,
there is no watermark and two million copies were printed in
photogravure. The designers were Levin, Jakowlev and Golowanov. |
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single stamp |
sheetlet with 72 stamps |
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Michel 1850 A, Scott 1841, Yvert Tellier 1830, Stanley
Gibbons 1982, Domfil 956.9 |
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This time I can present various covers and Maximum cards. |
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 Three Maximum cards |
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This is a beautiful cover: It is a registered airmail
cover from Vilnius, Lithuania, former Soviet Union, to Chicago, IL, US,
sent on March 8, 1957. It also has got two arrival cancels on the reverse
side (cancelled Mar 16, 1957). It took eight days to get to its
destination.
The long one-line cancel says "Meshdunarodnoye", which means
"International Post". It was applied to all letters for the exterior. |
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Another nice cover from to Cariova in Romania. It was
sent on Oct 17, 1958, and recieved on Sep 23, 1958. So it arrived 24 days
before it was sent. I suppose that either the Russian postal clerk had
made a mistake when he changed the dial of the month on the cancel, or his
Romanian colleague made this mistake. |
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Two reverse sides of picture postcards: The first one
was sent on August 28, 1956 by airmail from Moscow to Milan in Italy, the
other one was sent on June 6, 1957 from Moscow to Berlin in the former
German Democratic Republic. It would be intersting to find out why the
postage on the first card was 25 Kopecks, while it was 50 Kopecks on the
second one, although the second card was sent only ten months after the
first one. I do not think that postage was raised by 100 % in less than a
year.
Piet van den Berg from Holland has an explanation for the two tariffs:
There was one tariff for postcards with only a couple of words, and
another postal rate for postcards with full text. In the Netherlands and
in Austria this special rate existed, why not in the Soviet Union ! |
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Another registered airmail cover from Lispaja, Latvia
to Chicago, IL, USA. It was sent on April 16, 1957 and shows the
Volleyball stamp twice. |
This letter was sent by airmail from Olenegorsk,
Murmansk region, USSR, to Anklam, Meckenburg,
former German Democratic Republic. |
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Philatelic cover with additional cachet cancel showing
Volleyball. It was prepared to commemorate the Regional Spartakiad
(Belarus) of Schools, held from Aug 17 to Aug 26, 1960. |
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