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“Red Army soldier” of orange color - 70- ruble toothless orange postage stamp RSFSR of the fourth (according to another classification - third) standard issue ( CFA (ITC) # 75a; Mi # 210BF) , issued in December 1922 - January 1923 . It is a double printing error and is one of the rarest brands.
| Red Army man | |
|---|---|
 ( CFA (ITC) # 75a; Mi # 210BF) [1] | |
| Type of | standard |
| Country of issue |  RSFSR |
| Place of issue | Moscow |
| Painter | A. G. Yakimchenko |
| Engraver | A. I. Troitsky |
| Printing method | typographic printing |
| Date of issue | December 1922 - January 1923 |
| Face value | 70 rubles |
| Pronging | toothless |
| Reason for rarity | double print error |
| Preserved (copy) | four |
| Assessment ( Iver ) | € 2500 (2005) |
Description
The orange stamp depicts a Red Army man . The author of the drawing, the master of Russian classical engraving A. I. Troitsky, made it in the technique of woodcut from the sculpture of Ivan Shadr [2] . The artist of the ornamental frame is A. G. Yakimchenko .
The face value of the brand is 70 rubles. Without teeth, printed in a typographic way.
History and Rarity
The USSR Postage Stamp Catalog 1918-1974 (1976) indicated that the orange stamp of 70 ruble denomination was found in 100-stamp sheets, as well as in 25-stamp sheets. The appearance of this brand is the result of a double error that occurred as follows:
- When printing in orange color sheets of 100-ruble stamps of the same series with teeth 14: 14½ ( CFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 80) , consisting of 100 stamps and divided by fields into 4 sheets, 25 stamps each, 72 -th place (in the third lower left sheet) in the printing form one cliché of the 70-ruble mark was erroneously included. This happened when replacing a worn cliche in printed form of 100-ruble stamps. Hence the color error: 70-ruble prong orange mark instead of lilac ( CFA [ ITC “Marka” ] No. 75) . This type of printing mistake - when a cliche of one brand falls on a sheet of another - is known under the romantic name "cuckoo egg" [3] .
- The same stamp, but without teeth, appeared as a result of the fact that several such sheets of 100-ruble stamps with the erroneous inclusion of one 70-ruble stamp were not perforated and in this form were transferred from the printing house of Goznak to the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs .
There were few such instances in total, since the error was quickly noticed and corrected. Later, the 70-ruble toothless orange brand of the RSFSR was found in only three collections, not counting the state. In the State collection of postage signs at the Central Museum of Communications named after A. S. Popov [4], the rare orange “Red Armyman” is presented as part of a sheet of 25 stamps, in which the 12th stamp has a 70-ruble denomination instead of a 100-ruble denomination.
According to 2005 data, a single brand is estimated at 2,500 euros in the Iver and Tellier catalog ( Yt # 207b) . The Standard Collection Collection (2009) indicates a price of 8 million rubles for a whole sheet with a 70-ruble mark.
See also
- Gold standard (stamp series)
- Postage stamps of Russia
- Standard brands of Russia
Notes
- ↑ The illustration shows part of an unperforated sheet of 14 standard RSFSR stamps with a face value of 100 rubles ( CFA (ITC) # 80; Mi # 211B) and one erroneous stamp of 70 rubles ( CFA (ITC) # 75a; Mi # 210BF) .
- ↑ Sculptures of Shadr formed the basis of a number of standard stamps of the RSFSR and the USSR in 1922-1940.
- ↑ Korostyleva I. In search of the “cuckoo egg” // “D`”. - 2008. - No. 12 (51). - June 23 - July 7.
- ↑ The collection is located in a special safe room, created in 2003, called “The Treasury of Russian Signs of Postal Payment” and which is an open-access storage facility; see: L. Rylkova. How to store and exhibit stamps at the Postal Museum Archived May 28, 2015 at Wayback Machine // Collection of guidelines for organizing museum work at the FSUE Russian Post branches. - M. , 2005. (July.)
Literature
- Bukharov O. N. Standard stamps of the RSFSR // Stamps - witnesses of history . - M .: Radio and communications, 1982. - 80 p. (Retrieved September 21, 2015)
- Catalog of postage stamps. 1857-1960. Russia, RSFSR, USSR / Under the general. ed. V. B. Zagorsky . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Standard Collection , 2004 .-- 211 p. - ISBN 5-902275-08-3 .
- Catalog of USSR Postage Stamps 1918-1974 / Ed. M.E. Ginzburg, M.I. Spivak; Design binding thin. Yu. Ryakhovsky. - M .: CFA “Soyuzpechat” of the Ministry of Communications of the USSR , 1976. - 840 p.
- About rare and rarest Soviet stamps // Philately of the USSR . - 1974. - No. 1. - S. V — VI.
- Stalbaum B.K. What the philatelist needs to know. - M .: CFA Soyuzpechat, Ministry of Communications of the USSR, 1968.
- Yvert et Tellier . Catalog Mondial de Cotation sur les Classiques du Monde 1840-1940. Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 2005 .-- 1077 p. - ISBN 978-2-86814-142-2 . (fr.)