Postage Stamp - History of Russian Aircraft - AK-1 Monoplane, 1924 - Soviet Union 1977 - Michel Soviet Union 4622 - my hobby

Postage Stamp - History of Russian Aircraft - AK-1 Monoplane, 1924 - Soviet Union 1977 - Michel Soviet Union 4622 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

There is a saying that one crossing can be equated to three fires.

Indeed, today, I cannot find many of the postage stamps from my collection that I am sure I had.

But, it's not scary.

Each postage stamp serves as a kind of beacon that provides guidance for further search for postage stamps and complete sets of complete series.

Today I would like to present a postage stamp from Series History of Russian Aircraft, issued in 1977 with a circulation of 6,100,000 copies, with a face value of 6 kopecks in the USSR.

It depicts one of the first Soviet planes to fly after the civil war.

The capacity of this aircraft is 4 passengers.

Funny, this plane is similar to how small children depict planes in their drawings.

A single wing attached to the top of the fuselage complements this similarity.

I don't know how the passengers felt, being inside the plywood body of the plane, but it was like being at one with nature.

Swimming in the clouds lol.

This plane bore several names: AK-1, Latvian srelok and Dobrolet, from the words good and fly in Russian.

Now, let's take a look at a postage stamp.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union.
Subject: #Aviation, #Airplanes, #Russia.
Series: History of Russian Aircraft.
Name: AK-1 Monoplane, 1924.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 6 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Soviet Union catalog code: 4622.
Episode release date: August 16, 1976.
Perforation: comb 12 x 11½.
Postage stamp size: 38 x 53 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography and Recess.
Circulation: 6,100,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.12 - $ 0.14.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.06 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

Important!

1. Please note that the cost of shipping postage stamps to other countries can be many times more expensive than the postage stamp itself, approximately $ 5.5.

2. I see that it is not profitable to purchase one postage stamp if, suddenly, you need to replenish your collection. It is always more profitable to purchase the entire series, and, surplus, to change, or sell.

3. If you decide to buy a postage stamp online, be careful. sometimes sellers use stock images. But this option is unacceptable. You need to see exactly the product that you are buying.

4. If you are afraid that the postage stamp sellers will want to deceive you, you are doing the right thing, do not doubt it.

5. To get started with this hobby, buy a good magnifying glass, tweezers with flat and thin edges and a stockbook for postage stamps, they will come in handy.

6. When buying postage stamps, pay special attention to the back of the postage stamp. The adhesive layer must not be damaged.

7. There is such an expression - How many people, so many opinions, this also applies to sellers of postage stamps. Each of them believes that his postage stamp is in perfect condition, but only you yourself can find the perfect postage stamp for yourself.

8. Sometimes, a small, white scrap of paper with a round stamp on it and a number inscribed in the center circle can be a very valuable postage stamp from the days when postage stamps were not printed.

9. The cost of a postage stamp is determined by supply and demand, but usually in catalogs you can see the estimated cost of a postage stamp in Pounds Sterling.

10. In terms of quality, postage stamps can be divided into three groups: used postage stamps that were pasted on and removed from the envelope, canceled postage stamps that were canceled at the post office, by order and sent for sale, and clean, uncanceled postage stamps. As you can imagine, these three types of postage stamps, their conditions, greatly affect their value.

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

For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.

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