Travel the World of Postage Stamps - World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa - Red King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) - Soviet Union 1975 - Michel's USSR 4380 - my hobby

Travel the World of Postage Stamps - World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa - Red King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) - Soviet Union 1975 - Michel's USSR 4380 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

Every day when I write a post about postage stamps, I mentally travel to the country where the postage stamp was issued and at the time this event happened.

Some postage stamps are closely related to my personal history, the history of my family and can remind of people who are no longer alive.

A postage stamp with a denomination of 16 kopecks of the USSR from a series of postage stamps World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa issued in the USSR in 1975 depicts Red King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), or Kamchatka crab.

My mother was born in Kamchatka, on the peninsula, which gave the name to this arthropod inhabitant of the cold seas of the Far East.

I will soon change fifty years, but I could not get to my historical homeland, Kamchatka, very far from where I am.

I don’t know, maybe one day, I will see the sea, along the shore of which my mother walked.

Recently, my children asked me what the king crab tastes like. I ate it only in canned form, in the days of the Soviet Union, it was not the most scarce product. But, today, crab meat has passed into the category of products that one can only dream of, because its price bites strongly and is comparable to the price of red caviar.

But, if I have the opportunity to be in Kamchatka, I will try to catch a crab and cook it for my children.

This postage stamp has received 5,660,000 copies in galleries.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

Information about this postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
Name: Red King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 15 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4380.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 5,650,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.19 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.11 - $ 0.17.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

Below, you will see previous postage stamps from this series and links to their descriptions:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
Name: Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 10 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4379.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 6,600,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.19 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.11 - $ 0.17.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
Name: European Eel (Anguilla anguilla).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 6 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4378.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 6,900,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.19 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.11 - $ 0.17.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
Name: Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 4 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4377.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 7,300,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.19 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.11 - $ 0.17.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
Name: Russian Sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 3 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4376.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 8,300,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 0.14.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

To be continued!

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

Author @barski

Ukraine

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