Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Marine Paintings by I.K. Aivazovsky - Odessa in Moonlight, Ivan Aivazovsky (1846) - USSR, Soviet Union 1974 - Michel USSR 4219Zf - my hobby

Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Marine Paintings by I.K. Aivazovsky - Odessa in Moonlight, Ivan Aivazovsky (1846) - USSR, Soviet Union 1974 - Michel USSR 4219Zf - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

Travel is a very broad concept.

We can travel around our own city, go outside of it, go to another country, move on land by air and water, and postage stamps allow us to travel in time.

Sometimes, travels are fraught with risk and experiences, something like that, we can see in the paintings of the famous marine painter Aivazovsky.

In his paintings we will see disturbing sunsets, storms, shipwrecks and sea battles.

He chose a disturbing sea for his creativity, and this is interesting.

In 1985, I, together with my mother, then, I was 12 years old, visited the Crimean city of Feodosia and the house-museum of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.

I remember that we waited a long time for the museum to open, it was lunchtime and we were the only visitors to this museum.

The seascapes that I saw were magnificent, it is a pity that then, I did not have a camera.

But, on that day, my mother bought me a series of Marine Paintings by I.K. Aivazovsky postage stamps, issued in 1974 in the USSR.

Today, I want to present the first postage stamp in this series, which depicts a painting by Aivazovsky Odessa in Moonlight, Ivan Aivazovsky (1846).

This postage stamp received a face value of 2 kopecks of the USSR.

The postage stamp itself has a large circulation of 7,400,000 copies, but, you see. that this postage stamp has a coupon on which you can see the composition of the entire series of postage stamps.

Unfortunately, I do not know the number of postage stamps to which the coupon was attached, this circulation is much less.

In addition, you can see that the coupon is attached at the bottom, but there are variations in which the coupon was attached to the left side of the face of the postage stamp.

Aivazovsky's picture Odessa in Moonlight, depicted on a postage stamp, can show us what the sunset over Odessa looked like in ancient times.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR, Soviet Union.
Subject: #Art, #Painting, #Picture, #Aivazovsky, #USSR.
Series: Marine Paintings by I.K. Aivazovsky.
Name: Odessa in Moonlight, Ivan Aivazovsky (1846).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 4219Zf.
Episode release date: March 30, 1974.
Perforation: comb 12½ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 52 x 74 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 7,400,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.18 - $ 0.34.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 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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