Travel the World of Postage Stamps - 120th Anniversary of Moscow Zoo - Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) - USSR, Soviet Union 1984 - Michel USSR 5357 - my hobby.
Greetings friends!
When a ship is sailing on the sea, and the visibility is very limited, sailors dream of seeing the light of a lighthouse that will direct them in the right direction.
Like beacons, postage stamps can provide us with useful information and broaden our horizons.
Yes, these are financial and intellectual investments.
For example, running around your garden in pursuit of Colorado beetles and caterpillars as pests, you may not know that in other countries and on other continents, pests can be animals that you would treat as something very valuable.
For example, in China, sparrows were considered pests and, at one time, they were almost completely exterminated.
And, in South Africa, for the same reason, they exterminated population 2, leaving only 17 heads Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) alive.
These beautiful antelopes had a chance to disappear from the face of the Earth, but people stopped in time and today, the antelope population has been restored.
It is possible that the zoos where they were kept helped in the preservation of the animal population.
On a postage stamp with a face value of 3 kopecks, we see another postage stamp from Series 120th Anniversary of Moscow Zoo, issued in the USSR in 1984, which depicts a pet of the Moscow Zoo - Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus).
This postage stamp received a nominal value of 8,100,000 copies, which has a negative effect on the value of the postage stamp and its uniqueness, there are too many of them lol.
Let's take a look at this postage stamp.
Description of the postage stamp:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Animals, #Nature, #Fauna, #Zoos, #Anniversaries, #USSR.
Series: 120th Anniversary of Moscow Zoo.
Name: Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 3 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5357.
Episode release date: February 02, 1984.
Perforation: comb 12¼ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 28 x 40 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 8,100,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.12 - $ 0.24.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Canceled postage stamp
Previous postage stamp from this series and a link to its description:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Animals, #Nature, #Fauna, #Zoos, #Anniversaries, #USSR.
Series: 120th Anniversary of Moscow Zoo.
Name: Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5356.
Episode release date: February 02, 1984.
Perforation: comb 12¼ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 28 x 40 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 8,300,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.12 - $ 0.24.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.12.
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.
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