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Cozmosis22
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posted 08-04-2017 04:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cozmosis22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is an old metered cancel by noted space cover dealer Seymour Rodman. He was a seller/collector and Space Unit member, not a cache maker. This is from a correspondence with him back in 1994.

Does anyone else collect special machine postage cancellation artwork and perhaps have some examples to show here?

fimych
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posted 08-04-2017 07:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fimych   Click Here to Email fimych     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is an example of Soviet-age 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin flight "private" machine cancellation and a story behind it.

Boris Vainer, known soviet collector and dealer who lived in Vinnitsa, prepared a special cancellation and arranged it to be used in the post office machine to postmark the covers. Many covers received this "private machine cancellation" and as a result there was an outburst and succeeding trial for interfering soviet postal system. Vainer was not jailed but his life got much complicated and in early 90s he left to Israel. Boris Vainer was also known for collecting postal cancellation devices and used them to create backdated "rarities" like 4.10.1957 Sputnik covers.

Cozmosis22
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posted 08-04-2017 08:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cozmosis22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So, this Boris Vainer is the character who produced these Sputnik One covers?

fimych
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posted 08-04-2017 09:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fimych   Click Here to Email fimych     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I cannot confirm this, but these are funny covers - with the Sputnik stamp issued Nov. 4, 57 (a month later) and much later issued Mezhkniga official covers.

Note, in USSR the cachets were not applied as easily as in USA. The covers were printed in batches and then used for postmarking.

All times are CT (US)

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