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Post by vasia on Oct 15, 2015 11:28:33 GMT
October 15th, 1890
Russia Scott #33 cancelled in Seradv, Kalishskaya guberniya, in what was then Russian Poland.
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Post by vasia on Oct 14, 2015 12:53:37 GMT
October 14th, 1995
5k Soviet PSE used as a blank during the inflationary period of independent Ukraine. Posted from Ternopol to Odessa. By this point in time the ordinary letter rate had skyrocketed to 5.000 karbovanets. Cash payment of this charge is indicated on the cover above by the application of the violet rectangular handstamp "forwarding paid", with the charge written-in.
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Post by vasia on Oct 11, 2015 19:19:58 GMT
October 11th, 1950
Cover from Kursk to Leningrad, 13/10/1950. Franked at the ordinary letter rate of 40k. Franked with scarce Typographed (Bdr) version of the definitive: Michel 1335II (100 € used), SG 1361h, Soloviev 1387, Lyapin 1502 (200 € on cover). Distinguishing characteristic: sunrays at right, below the globe, are “broken”, i.e crossed with white lines.
The standard design of later issues of this stamp, i.e with "unbroken" sunrays at right, is shown below:
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Post by vasia on Oct 8, 2015 11:29:00 GMT
Hi Vasia Curious. The "Green Cash on Delivery Label" should that not have an "NP" bar at the top? or, does just a green label, indicate COD? Thanks. Ooops! Just realised you mentioned "Non Standard".......... Rod, you do have a point! COD labels were characterized by their green color - some of them (but NOT all of them) had the additional line indicating COD in Russian ("NP" = Nalozhhenni Platezh). My "non-standard" designation referred to the use of a COD label instead of a registration label, not to the use of COD label of a "non-standard" type.
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Post by vasia on Oct 2, 2015 14:02:13 GMT
October 2nd, 1909
Russia Scott 85, cancelled in Warsaw, then Russian Poland.
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Post by vasia on Oct 2, 2015 14:01:03 GMT
That is curious. The "6 rubles postal charge" manuscript overprint, appears to be in the same hand as the addressor. One would expect it to be different? Applied by a rubber stamp, or at least in the script of the Postal Clerk. That is an interesting observation, Rod! It adds more mystery to the postal charge actually paid, since at this point in time the rate for a domestic letter in Russia was 15 rubles. Maybe the sender posted his letter at the previous 6 ruble rate and got away with it.
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Post by vasia on Oct 1, 2015 11:53:22 GMT
October 1st, 1993
7 kopecks Soviet PSE used after the break-up of the Soviet Union from Ulyanovsk to St Petersburg in Russia. The envelope had been converted to a 6 rubles postal charge with a manuscript inscription over its indicium. This was the domestic letter rate from May 15th, 1993 to August 10th, 1993. After that date, the rate jumped to 15 rubles. The addition of 6 rubles in definitives either denotes a special 12R rate (the sender is a factory), or reflects a mistake in franking (for example, the addition of two instead of three 3 rubles stamps) which was not detected during mail transit.
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Post by vasia on Sept 21, 2015 11:08:52 GMT
September 21st, 1915
2k Imperial Arms pair cancelled in Russian Finland - trilingual (Swedish-Finnish / Russian) machine cancellation.
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Post by vasia on Sept 17, 2015 11:16:25 GMT
September 17th, 1930
Postal envelope from Samara Vokzal (= railway station, circular datestamp) to Moscow. Registered with violet rectangular “registration” handstamp (no “З”) with no vokzal notation. Franked correctly at 20k with “Large Head”.
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Post by vasia on Sept 16, 2015 11:47:21 GMT
September 16th, 1993
7k Soviet PSE used as blank during the post-Soviet inflation period in Ukraine. From Vradyevka, Nikolaev oblast to Nikolaev (18/9 backstamp). Payment in cash of the domestic letter rate of 9 rubles (valid from June to mid-September 1993) is indicated by the large "9" handstamp in violet. Interestingly, the commemorative theme of the PSE (anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War - May 9th, 1945) contains another large "9" in the form of a flower arrangement.
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Post by vasia on Sept 15, 2015 12:05:47 GMT
September 15th, 1922
Cover from Saratov to Windsor, Colorado, through Moscow (machine cancel on back). Franked correctly at 45R with block of 9 5R IMPERF Arms – the use of imperf 5R Arms is very rare at this point in time (see Ceresa, Volume V, section D2/D3, parts 19-25, p.28). In 1904 a large group of Volga Germans from Donhof (http://doenhof.blogspot.gr/, Gololobovka, bergseite, in Saratov province) settled in Windsor and worked in sugar beet cultivation. Later on, Volga Germans from other localities followed suit. Keller is a last name known among Donhof settlers.
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