The first USSR stamps or First All-Russia Agricultural Exhibition issue appeared in August 1923 as a series of
Soviet Union
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postage stamp
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s. Its
designer
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In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...
was the Russian artist
Georgy Pashkov.
History
The First All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Exhibition was held in
Moscow
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in 1923. It was opened on 19 August. This very day, a special
commemorative
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Commemorative may refer to:
* Commemorative coin, coins that issued to commemorate something
* Commemorative medal, a medal to commemorate something
* Commemorative plaque, a plate typic ...
series of postage stamps dedicated to the exhibition opening was released. These were the first stamps of the Soviet Union.
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Stamps
The stamp design
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was created by the artist G. Pashkov.[
The stamps have the inscription in russian: "CCCP" ("USSR") or "Почта CCCP" (''Post of the USSR''), the value, and the words in russian: "Всероссийская сельско-хоз. и кустарно-пром. выставка" (''All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Exhibition''). They were produced by ]lithographic printing
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in two versions, imperforate
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Methods of separation include:
# perforation: cutting rows and columns of small holes
# rouletting: small horizontal and vert ...
and perforated
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References
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Postage stamps of the Soviet Union
1923 introductions
Exhibitions in Russia