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Post by vasia on Nov 15, 2018 15:12:06 GMT
November 15th, 1993
Non-denominated Soviet PSE used after the dissolution of the Soviet Union from Minsk, Belarus to St. Petersburg, Russia. Franked at 40 rubles with definitives of Belarus.
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Post by vasia on Nov 11, 2018 9:20:39 GMT
November 11th, 1940
Argentina 5c (Scott 427), cancelled in Buenos Aires.
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Post by vasia on Nov 9, 2018 15:29:38 GMT
November 9th, 1992
50 kopecks Soviet PSE used as blank after the dissolution of the USSR. Mailed from Barnaul, Altai, Russia to Rezekne, Latvia (19/11 backstamp). Franked at the 75 rubles Airmail rate with 7X10R Russia definitives and a 5R Soviet definitive. This rate was valid from November 4th until March 1993 during this inflationary period.
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Post by vasia on Nov 6, 2018 13:27:23 GMT
November 6th, 1993
Non-denominated PSE used from the small town of Yerky, Cherkassy, Ukraine to Kiev (8/11 backstamp). Cash payment of the 27 karbovanets intercity letter rate was indicated by the rectangular Soviet-era "Paid" (Oplocheno) handstamp.
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Post by vasia on Nov 5, 2018 18:00:14 GMT
November 5th, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used as a blank after the dissolution of the USSR from Minsk, Belarus to St. Petersburg, Russia. Cash payment of the appropriate 20 rubles charge during this inflationary period was indicated by the octagonal "Belarus Post" meter. The PSE commemorates Belarusian musician and conductor Ryhor Shyrma (1892-1978).
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Post by vasia on Nov 4, 2018 12:57:38 GMT
November 4th, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used as a blank in independent Ukraine from Kivertsi, Volyn to Kiev (5/11 backstamp). The PSE had been originally uprated in 1992 with an octagonal 93k handstamp for a 1 karbovanets rate. By September 1993 (and until December of that year) the domestic letter rate had jumped to 27 karbovanets. Cash payment of the postal rate was indicated by the application of the square "27" handstamp.
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Post by vasia on Nov 3, 2018 14:59:50 GMT
November 3rd, 1920
Georgia National Republic 5 ruble "Queen Tamara" (Scott 20) perf.
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Post by vasia on Nov 2, 2018 14:01:51 GMT
October 31st, 1922
Inflation-period Soviet cover from Kharkov to Berlin. Franked at 150 rubles with 10k (100X) revalued Imperial arms – the ordinary international rate until 3/11 was 75R. There is a handwritten notation for registration, but no other details, hence the letter was probably sent unregistered, BUT possibly as a double-weight letter.
Vasia, thank you very much for yet another interesting post. You are the champion of the Postmark Calendar! Am I right in thinking that your post refers to the Kharkov which is located in present-day Ukraine? If so, I was there in January 2006. There is a scientific research institute located in Kharkov, and I was there in an attempt to do business with them at that time. As my visit was in January, I can state that it was the coldest temperature that I ever experienced in my life. It was -40 degrees, the only temperature at which the reading in C and F is the same. Brrrrrrr!! Yes, Kharkov in present-day Ukraine. You can see the Ukrainian spelling of the name - Kharkiv - in the postmark. A time when issues different from language and ethnicity divided the population of the area.
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Post by vasia on Oct 31, 2018 15:02:16 GMT
October 31st, 1922
Inflation-period Soviet cover from Kharkov to Berlin. Franked at 150 rubles with 10k (100X) revalued Imperial arms – the ordinary international rate until 3/11 was 75R. There is a handwritten notation for registration, but no other details, hence the letter was probably sent unregistered, BUT possibly as a double-weight letter.
It is unclear why the letter received an oval postage-due handstamp of Kharkov, which was then withdrawn with the application of a “СНЯАТА” (snyata) cachet (41X7 mm). The envelope had a lithographed printing at left – probably a firm’s logo – that has been plastered over by the stamps.
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Post by vasia on Oct 26, 2018 9:18:40 GMT
October 26th, 1907
15 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled in Yanov, Lublin, present-day Janow in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
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Post by vasia on Oct 22, 2018 14:31:28 GMT
October 22nd, 1955
Yugoslavia 30 din (Scott #350), cancelled in Zagreb, present-day Croatia.
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Post by vasia on Oct 21, 2018 16:31:49 GMT
October 21st, 1923
Transcaucasian Federation 200.000 rubles (Scott #18), cancelled in Baku, present-day Azerbaijan.
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Post by vasia on Oct 20, 2018 15:43:23 GMT
October 20th, 1928
Soviet cover from Orenburg to New York, 2/11/1928. Franked correctly at 28k with 2x10k + 8k Large Heads. The non-standard registration label is on brown paper, perfed, with pre-printed city name and registration number. Addressed to Stanislaus Zbyszko, 2-time heavyweight wrestling champion in the 1920's.
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Post by vasia on Oct 19, 2018 18:07:41 GMT
October 19th, 1917
Cover from Skopin, Ryazan, posted 6 days before the October Revolution, to Copenhagen, Red Cross, 19/11/1917. Franked correctly at the 40k registered letter rate with 35k + 5k Arms. Registered with domestic “З” label. Censored in Moscow with violet mark of censor #107 and censor resealing label.
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Post by vasia on Oct 18, 2018 14:57:32 GMT
October 18th, 1920
5 rubles Russian Imperial Arms, used in Soviet Russia due to non-availability of appropriate Soviet stamps. Cancelled in Stary ("Old") Peterhof, part of the city of Peterhof-Petrodvorets (1944-1997) in the wider area of Petrograd / St Petersburg.
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Post by vasia on Oct 16, 2018 15:23:23 GMT
October 16th, 1975
Great Britain 61/2p Machin (Scott MH60), cancelled in Bournemouth-Poole.
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Post by vasia on Oct 15, 2018 14:47:23 GMT
October 15th, 1963
Ghana 4d (Scott 148), commemorating the National Founders' Day and depicting Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah.
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Post by vasia on Oct 14, 2018 16:55:30 GMT
October 14th, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used as a blank locally in St Petersburg 2 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. During this inflationary period, the PSE had been originally uprated to 6 rubles with the octagonal 05.93 meter (taking into account the PSE indicium for the letter rate valid from 15/5 to 10/8/1993). An additional rectangular meter for 907k was used to indicate payment of the 15 rubles charge (valid from 10/8/1993 to 10/1/1994) - the 7k PSE indicium is now disregarded.
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Post by vasia on Oct 13, 2018 14:58:24 GMT
October 13th, 1939
Greece 3 drachma (Scott 392) and 50 lepta semi-postal (Scott RA62), cancelled in the town of Meligalas in the Peloponnese.
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Post by vasia on Oct 12, 2018 16:58:30 GMT
October 12th, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used as a blank in independent Ukraine from Kryukovo, Poltava to Krivoy Rog (14/10 backstamp). Cash payment of the necessary fee (7 karbovanets) was indicated by the "Uplocheno" (=paid) rectangular handstamp.
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Post by vasia on Oct 11, 2018 13:58:03 GMT
October 11th, 1907
15 kopecks Russian Imperial Arms, cancelled in Ivangorod, present-day Deblin, in Lublin, Poland. The town was renamed Deblin in 1915.
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Post by vasia on Oct 9, 2018 13:40:32 GMT
October 9th, 1928
Soviet cover from Vacha, Vladimir to Murom п.т.к. (13/10 backstamp). Franked correctly at 20k with “Large Heads”. The non-standard registration label (added at destination!) is imperf, with pre-printed details and a black border. At the place of origin a registration number might have been inscribed, but no placename.
Vacha is an urban locality (a work settlement), today part of Nizhnyi Novgorod oblast, known for its cutlery and tableware factory “Trud”. Murom also belonged in pre-revolutionary time to Vladimir guberniya and Vacha was part of Muromskiy uezd.
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Post by vasia on Oct 8, 2018 17:27:04 GMT
October 8th, 1992
Franked at an airmail registered letter rate of 35 rubles with Soviet and Russian definitives (this is the first year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union). Unusual provisional registration label of Usinsk.
Question: How long were old USSR stamps valid for postage in Russia and other former Soviet republics? Although I do not know if there was an official date of withdrawal, I would say that they remained in use, at least in the Russian Federation, until some time in late 1993-early 1994, when increasing inflation made their use impractical. Even during the first years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the increase of postal rates from the kopeck range to the ruble range allowed the continued use of only a small number of high-denomination Soviet stamps (1,3,5 rubles). Occasionally one finds lower-denomination Soviet stamps being used, with the envelopes literally plastered with them.
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Post by vasia on Oct 8, 2018 14:39:19 GMT
October 8th, 1992
Soviet 50k airmail PSE used as a blank from Usinsk, Komi Republic in the Russian Far North to Rezekne, eastern Latvia (10/10 backstamp). Franked at an airmail registered letter rate of 35 rubles with Soviet and Russian definitives (this is the first year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union). Unusual provisional registration label of Usinsk.
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Post by vasia on Oct 7, 2018 12:40:35 GMT
October 7th, 1913
7 kopecks Romanov Tercentenary stamp, cancelled in Chmielnik, Kielce, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. Chmielnik was a town with an 80% Jewish population up to WWII and the population's extermination by the Nazi hordes.
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Post by vasia on Oct 3, 2018 14:58:42 GMT
October 3rd, 1923
Inflation-period Soviet cover from Yaroslavl to Moscow, 4/10. Registered with “З” handstamp. At this point in time, in order to curb inflation, the currency had switched to a gold standard and, since October 1st, postal rates were quoted in gold kopecks (the domestic registered letter rate was 12k). But no Soviet stamps denominated in gold kopecks were yet available, so older (paper-currency) stamps were used and their amount was calculated daily based on a conversion rate quoted by the bank. On the 3rd the conversion rate was 100 gold kopecks = 415 (1923) rubles. Thus, 12k = 49,60 rubles.
The letter is franked: 7Χ5 (1923) rubles = 35R + 15X100 (1922) rubles = 15R, for a total of 50R. Correct franking!
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