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Topic: Soviet Lunik II pictorial postmark (1959)
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Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 968 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 05-11-2017 02:02 AM
Have an old postcard with this unusual ship, airplane, and rocket postmark dated liftoff of Lunik II, September 12, 1959. Has additional postmark dated moon landing two days later.An example of this is found in the 1964 edition of Catalogue Lollini; however it shows a 3rd standard round Tcheliabinsk, CCCP postmark. Since the above example does not have that does that make it incomplete?
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cosmos-walter Member Posts: 691 From: Salzburg, Austria Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 05-11-2017 03:06 AM
It is a Cub Cachet rather than a postmark. German Pfau encouraged local stamp collector societies in different Soviet towns to issue such club cachets and listed them in catalogues. They are neither official nor connected with postal service. |
Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 968 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 05-11-2017 03:30 AM
Danke. So this was just a cachet decoration for Lunik II that wasn't officially postmarked? These club covers were produced and collected but they were not intended to be mailed? |
fimych Member Posts: 228 From: Boston MA, USA Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-11-2017 06:11 AM
These are officially approved "club" cachets, on some occasions they were used on the posted items but as a cachet only. Most of such club items had printed cachet and stamped cachet, but not all of them — like in your case, Chelyabinsk had almost no printed cachets.This is another Chelyabinsk example on the mailed cover. |