Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Mongolian Chess Pieces - Bishop (Camel) - Mongolia 1981 - Michel Mongolia 1408 - my hobby

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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Mongolian Chess Pieces - Bishop (Camel) - Mongolia 1981 - Michel Mongolia 1408 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

Imagine for a moment that you, one day, decided to spend your hard earned money on a trip to the zoo. You really wanted to communicate with the elephants.

The zoo is located in a neighboring town.

You woke up very early, quickly packed up and quickly went to the railway station to catch the train that would take you to the zoo.

Together with you, your wife and children, a noisy and cheerful company is waiting for a meeting with elephants.

And so, you bought tickets to the zoo, enter its territory and find a corral with a sign "elephants" hanging on it.

You have been trying for a long time to see the elephants that hide behind the necks and humps of camels.

But, you don't see elephants.

You ask the zoo worker where are the elephants, and he shows you camels.

Do not rush to create a scandal and severely spoil your nervous system.

It is quite possible that this zoo came from Mongolia, and its director is an avid chess player.

In Mongolia, the elephant chess piece looks like a camel.

Why be surprised lol.

In Europe, the chess elephant, originally from the homeland of chess in India, is called an officer and a bishop.

I haven't seen a bishop with elephant tusks in church lol.

Postage stamp Bishop (Camel) from Series Mongolian Chess Pieces, issued in Mongolia in 1981, clearly shows us this intricate story about chess pieces.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Mongolia.
Subject: #Chess, #Pawn, #Figure, #Goat, #Mongolia.
Series: Mongolian Chess Pieces.
Name: Bishop (Camel).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 50 Mongolian möngö.
Michel's Mongolia catalog code:1408.
Episode release date:September 20,1981.
Perforation: comb12½.
Postage stamp size: 49 x 49 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 2.88 - $ 3.62.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 0.66.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Mongolia.
Subject: #Chess, #Pawn, #Figure, #Goat, #Mongolia.
Series: Mongolian Chess Pieces.
Name: Castle (Cart).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 40 Mongolian möngö.
Michel's Mongolia catalog code:1407.
Episode release date:September 20,1981.
Perforation: comb12½.
Postage stamp size: 49 x 49 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 2.88 - $ 3.62.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.76.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Mongolia.
Subject: #Chess, #Pawn, #Figure, #Goat, #Mongolia.
Series: Mongolian Chess Pieces.
Name: Pawn (Goat).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 20 Mongolian möngö.
Michel's Mongolia catalog code:1406.
Episode release date:September 20,1981.
Perforation: comb12½.
Postage stamp size: 49 x 49 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 2.88 - $ 3.66.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.09 - $ 0.36.
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

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.