Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Fighting Cocks - Cenizo (Gallus gallus domesticus) - Cuba 1981 - Michel Cuba 2562 - my hobby

Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Fighting Cocks - Cenizo (Gallus gallus domesticus) - Cuba 1981 - Michel Cuba 2562 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

Many people think that postage stamps are something like candy wrappers that have no price.

But, you will not be able to hand over a candy wrapper to a candy store and get candy for it.

A postage stamp, you can exchange for its face value for cash, at any post office, if there have been no monetary reforms since the issue of postage stamps.

A postage stamp is a financial document and multidimensional source of information.

Holding a postage stamp in your hands, you own information and finance, economics, politics, history, geography and the life of the people of the country in which the postage stamp was issued.

During the Roman Empire, in order to influence the mood of the people, gladiator fights were organized.

At this time, bread was distributed to all spectators.

It went down in history as the expression "bread and show".

Series Fighting Cocks of postage stamps, issued on the island of Cuba in 1981, shows us fighting roosters.

Yes, these are not just chicken breeds, they are brave warriors - gladiators.

Apparently, at that time, and perhaps even today, the sport, which today is prohibited in most civilized countries, was popular in Cuba.

It's about cockfighting.

It's a brutal sport and it's a coward's sport. Yes, the guys could sort it out among themselves in the ring, but they raise birds for bloody battles.

On a 3 ¢ - Cuban centavo postage stamp, we see Cenizo (Gallus gallus domesticus).

For such purposes, the best of the best were selected. Many birds died in the battles so that the champion could get on a postage stamp.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: #Chickens, #Birds, #Poultry, #Fauna, #Animals, #Nature, #Cuba.
Series: Fighting Cocks.
Name: Cenizo (Gallus gallus domesticus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 3 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2562.
Episode release date: May 25, 1981.
Perforation: comb 12¾ x 12½.
Postage stamp size: 51 x 41 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 445,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.44.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: #Chickens, #Birds, #Poultry, #Fauna, #Animals, #Nature, #Cuba.
Series: Fighting Cocks.
Name: Canelo (Gallus gallus domesticus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2561.
Episode release date: May 25, 1981.
Perforation: comb 12½ x 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 40 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 445,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.44.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

To be continued.

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.

Author @barski
Ukraine

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