hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 22, 2019 20:25:25 GMT
It would be his 111 th birthday today: Lev Landau, one of the greatest physicists of the 20 th century:
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kosmo
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Posts: 308
What I collect: I can assist you in buying stamps at auctions in Russia.
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Post by kosmo on May 15, 2019 8:19:45 GMT
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kosmo
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Posts: 308
What I collect: I can assist you in buying stamps at auctions in Russia.
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Post by kosmo on May 15, 2019 11:55:26 GMT
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kasvik
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Posts: 543
What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jan 6, 2021 2:31:37 GMT
This caught my eye and I snapped. Proof I'm less calculating than I'd like to think. Mi406b, I think.
From 1932, back when no one could be certain what form the future of aviation would take. The future beckons! The Soviets loved dirigible images, and experimented with huge blimps. This dirigible-type looks like an imagined triumph. I wish I new more about the era's propaganda art. The poster is one of my all-time favorites, Let's build a zeppelin fleet for Lenin! a classic from the year before.
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kosmo
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Posts: 308
What I collect: I can assist you in buying stamps at auctions in Russia.
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Post by kosmo on Jan 7, 2021 18:16:40 GMT
The poster shown is a modern creation from the Republic of Belarus! And in the USSR in the 1930s, there are a huge number of non-postage stamps (cinderellas) on this topic.
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jan 10, 2021 22:18:22 GMT
The poster shown is a modern creation from the Republic of Belarus! And in the USSR in the 1930s, there are a huge number of non-postage stamps (cinderellas) on this topic. kosmo this is a shock. Must I not believe everything I read on the internet?
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,603
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Jun 26, 2021 0:23:14 GMT
Another interesting thing from my World Wide collection. I have left these Russia Wrangel Issues on the old sheet due to the great history on the back side. I see a similar sheet, but without the dealers name, recently sold for 48.00 US on eBay. I better hide it back in the album before I get ideas . Reprints were common and Scott prices in my Scott 2000 Classic catalogue are based on that. This sheet appears to date from 1939. The catalogue value then for all was 15.24 but was offered at a special price of .75. There is a printing error in the description near the end with a part of a sentence in the wrong place.
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ljeep
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Post by ljeep on Sept 28, 2021 23:06:18 GMT
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darkormex
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Swinging through Switzerland and getting tied up in Thailand
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What I collect: The World...just printing and mounting as I go...call me crazy!
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Post by darkormex on Sept 28, 2021 23:21:53 GMT
ljeep , your stamps above are actually from Bulgaria. Both countries use the cyrillic alphabet so it is easy to confuse the two. Here is a link to an online stamp identifier that might help you in identifying your stamps as you go through your Dad's collection. Worldwide Illustrated Stamp Identifier
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marki
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Post by marki on Sept 28, 2021 23:33:21 GMT
ljeep , your stamps above are actually from Bulgaria. Both countries use the cyrillic alphabet so it is easy to confuse the two. Here is a link to an online stamp identifier that might help you in identifying your stamps as you go through your Dad's collection. Worldwide Illustrated Stamp Identifier If that would make things easier, the first stamps are part of a set of six issued in 1956 on the occasion of that year's Olympic Games in Melbourne. The next ones come from a set on Bulgarian history released in 1942.
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Sept 29, 2021 1:12:29 GMT
The only postage stamps that I have from Russia is this set of 4 issued April 1943 for the 200th anniversary of the death of Vitus Bering, explorer (1681-1741). He died after being marooned on Bering Island, just a two day sail to Kamchatka. But he and the crew spent a very long, arduous Winter there. I just finished reading "The Island of Blue Foxes" which is now known as Bering Island. Absolutely amazing what 1,000's went through! It's an excellent read.
Pyotr
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darkormex
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Swinging through Switzerland and getting tied up in Thailand
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What I collect: The World...just printing and mounting as I go...call me crazy!
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Post by darkormex on Sept 29, 2021 2:26:39 GMT
brightonpete, I read Island of the Blue Foxes last year and I agree, it is an excellent read. It was my favorite book last year. Really well done.
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ljeep
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Post by ljeep on Sept 29, 2021 11:45:25 GMT
Thank you for your help. At the moment, I am attempting to sort through and categorize by country. This is a daunting task for a novice! Thanks, again.
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drblade
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What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Dec 7, 2021 16:15:25 GMT
I know very little about the stamps of Russia, if anything at all. I kept the batch of stamps shown in the scan because I liked the designs. They came from an auction lot a couple of years ago & I'm not sure if they all are Russia or other or indeed their cat values if any.
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Post by captphil on Jan 15, 2023 19:18:17 GMT
I got some better Soviet-era souvenir sheets recently from an auction. This first one is sc 603a from a set publicizing the 1st Congress of Soviet Architects in June, 1937. These are sc 1786a and 1787a, marking the 200th annivesary of the founding of Moscow State University by M. B. Lomonosov in 1755. These sheets were issued in June of 1955. A few more sheets later...
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Post by captphil on Jan 17, 2023 1:41:29 GMT
And here are two more sheets from the late 1950s. First is sc 2002a from 15 October 1957, marking the 40th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Next is sc 2080a from 8 September 1958, for the 5th Congress of the International Architects' Organization, Moscow.
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Andy Pastuszak
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Praying for my family and everyone in Ukraine.
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Jan 17, 2023 3:43:35 GMT
I was debating collecting the stamps of the Soviet Union, since Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1991.
But my parents were totally opposed to the idea, since the Soviet Union forced them to flee their homeland and emigrate to America.
Of course now that I am long out of their house, I have the opportunity to start a collection and not offend them. But I really need to finish up the countries I'm collecting now before I take on another country.
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jan 18, 2023 17:02:01 GMT
I was debating collecting the stamps of the Soviet Union, since Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1991. But my parents were totally opposed to the idea, since the Soviet Union forced them to flee their homeland and emigrate to America. Of course now that I am long out of their house, I have the opportunity to start a collection and not offend them. But I really need to finish up the countries I'm collecting now before I take on another country.
Of course this had to happen. Sorry you got stuck by it.
My approach is to avoid stamps of reprehensible places/eras, especially anything Hitler/Nazi themed, and Confederate Jefferson Davis stamps. Non-political German mail from the 1930s and even the 1940s seems fine, so long as it doesn't pain me to look at it, but a lot of stamps are just too much. Ordinary Confederate mail seems fine, especially unstamped or with Thomas Jefferson, for whom I'll wiggle.
Ukraine's Soviet Republic era was seventy years of Ukrainian history, some of it hideous, much just normal activity of life. Cancellations and postal history seem least offensive; there is less Glory to the Soviet People! when it's smacked with a place and date. Make a moral claim with defaced Soviet stamps!
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Andy Pastuszak
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Praying for my family and everyone in Ukraine.
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Jan 18, 2023 17:56:51 GMT
I was debating collecting the stamps of the Soviet Union, since Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1991. But my parents were totally opposed to the idea, since the Soviet Union forced them to flee their homeland and emigrate to America. Of course now that I am long out of their house, I have the opportunity to start a collection and not offend them. But I really need to finish up the countries I'm collecting now before I take on another country.
Of course this had to happen. Sorry you got stuck by it.
My approach is to avoid stamps of reprehensible places/era, such as anything Hitler/Nazi themed, and Confederate Jefferson Davis stamps. Non-political German mail from the 1930s and event 1940s is fine, so long as it doesn't pain me to look at it, but a lot of stamps are untouchable. Ordinary Confederate mail fine, too, especially unstamped or with Thomas Jefferson, for who I'll bend.
But Ukraine's Soviet Republic era was seventy years of Ukrainian history, some of it hideous, much just normal activity of life. Cancellations and postal history seem least offensive; there is less Glory to the Soviet People! when it's smacked with a place and date. Make a moral claim with defaced Soviet stamps!
I didn't live under Soviet repression, so I can't really have any emotional ties to it. But for the people that did, especially in Ukraine, I'm sure seeing CCCP stamps would bring back memories of a time they would rather forget. I know the family I have left in Ukraine have nothing nice to say about the Soviet Union era of Ukrainian history.
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armenin2000
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I am 73 years old. I have been collecting stamps since 1963. My interests are Greater Russia. Stamps
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What I collect: Greater Russia. Stamps, covers , maxcards
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Post by armenin2000 on Nov 2, 2023 20:21:17 GMT
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