LATVIA : SOVIET PERIOD
POSTAL STATIONERY POSTCARDS
In the Soviet period, many postcards as postal stationary are issued. Also many cards have an image from the Baltic. These postcards are part of our collection area.
Original print size of this image: 10,778 x 15,215 cm (is something more as the postal item)
This picture and all pictures below on this page, if not mentioned otherwise: scanned about 300 dpi. Then set right and cut out - noted the actual print size-, resized 25 % of this image and saved as jpg.
This card is an old card, perhaps the oldest, with a Latvian motif.
The card is issued 17/VI 1954, and with the money reform the card get a stamp. From 1-1-1961: 10 old kopeken are 1 new kopeke. The stock picture cards with imprinted stamp of the miner get an overprint 'From 1 januari 1961 [is] price of the card with stamp 4 Kop.' (P249-P250 with overprin in box, and P256-P259 without box). The postcards with the Spasskitower as imprinted stamp -as these card- are also overprinted.
The imprinted stamp exist in more types: on the mausoleum 1 or two lines: Lenin or Lenin and Stalin. On the stamp here you see >>> two lines, the indication for Lenin and Stalin.
There is also a difference in printing:
Type I: Typography, only vertical lines in the tower (inscription on the mausoleum 1 line: Lenin).
Type II: Typography, only vertical lines in the tower (inscription on the mausoleum 2 lines: Lenin and Stalin).
Type III: Offset: vertical and horizontal lines in the tower (only inscription with 2 lines, Lenin and Stalin)
So this stamp is type III: offset.
The description of the picture - the Theatre in Riga- is only in Russian. Later cards have also a description in Latvian.
This card is issued 17/VI 1954.
The coat of arms has a total of 16 ribbons and text in one line as points: so type IVC (in the Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog).
The coat of arms: has left and right ribbobs and 1 ribbon at the bottom, with a text or a text only by dots indicated text.
Type IV: 16 ribbons (1946), the number of union republics
IVA with two line text
IVB also two-line, but points
IVC single line: points
TYPE V: 15 ribbons (1956), the Karelo-Finnish SSR in 1956 incorporated into the Russian SFSR
VA with two line text
VB also two-line, but points
VC single line: points
The text: "Proletarians of all countries unite".
In the Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog (MGK) the postal stationery cards are classified according the series permanent postage stamps. In the 8th serie permanent postage stamps (1948-1960) are three stamps used for the postal stationery cards: the Spasskitower (mi. 1336), the coat of arms (mi. 1335) with and the miner (mi. 1331).
For cataloguing we need also the coat of arms types, mentioned above:
| Stamp and type | Address and sender |
Other | Coat of arms type |
Printer | MGK | Sub | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spasskitower I | No lines | only two pictures | IV A | ---- | P212 | ---- | 1952 |
| Spasskitower II | ---- | IV A | ---- | P213 | a, b | 1952/ 53 | |
| ---- | IV B | ---- | P214 | a, b | |||
| Spasskitower III | printing address side: blue | IV C | ---- | P215 | I, II, III | ||
| printing address side: green | ---- | P216 | I, II | ||||
| Spasskitower III | Address 7 lines, sender 2 lines |
printing address side: blue | IV A | МОСК. ПЕЧ. Ф-КА ГОЗНАКА |
P217 | IA, IB, IIA, IIB | 1952/ 53 |
| printing address side: blue | IV C | P218 | I, II | 1954 | |||
| printing address side: green | IV C | P219A | I, II, IV, V, VI | 1953/ 56 | |||
| milled border (from booklet) | P219B | I, II | |||||
| Spasskitower II | ---- | IV B | P220 | I, II | 1954/ 56 | ||
| Spasskitower III | 1 picture (1954 and 1956) | IV B | М Т ИМ В. М. Г... | P221 | ---- | ||
| Spasskitower III | Address 7 lines, sender 2 lines |
---- | V B, green | МОСК. ПЕЧ. Ф-КА ГОЗНАКА |
P222A | ---- | --- |
| milled border | V B, green | P222B | ---- | ---- | |||
| Spasskitower II | ---- | V B, green | P223 | ---- | ---- | ||
| Spasskitower III | ---- | V B, red | P224 | ---- | ---- | ||
| VI World Youth and students.. | logo | ---- | P225 | I, II, III | 1957 |
The card above has lines for address and sender, coat of arms IV C and printed in green: must be P219 A.
The sub-division:
I: Publication-number: A...
II: Publication-number: Ш.... and a.white to 'vivid grey-yellow' b. vivid brown cardboard
IV: Publication-number Ш......, with date and issue-year 1954.
V: Publication-number A...., with date and issue-year 1954
VI: Publication-number Ш, with date and issue-year 1955
The card above has as publication-number Ш 03009, with date 17/VII and issue-year 1954: P219A, IV.
MGK (Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog) mention under P219A, subdivision IIa cards with picture. Here also the interesting card 'Lenin-Stalin-Mausoleum (5/VIII 1954)'. The picture of this card has above the mausoleum clearly indicated Lenin and Stalin.
More about this: another page
Literature:
- Het mausoleum van Lenin en -heel even- Stalin / Jan Kaptein. - In: Oost Europa Filatelie 2012 ; Nr. 3. - p. 24-28
- Postwaardestukken uit de Sovjetperiode : ansichtkaarten / Jan Kaptein. - In: Het Baltische Gebied 2012 ; 60. - p. 4-25
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