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Topic: International Space Station on board stamp
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akinnaird
Member Posts: 30
From: Arlington, VA, US
Registered: Dec 2013
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posted 10-06-2015 12:55 PM
   
Does anyone know the significance, if any, of a red vs. blue International Space Station (ISS) onboard stamp? |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 691
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 10-07-2015 08:26 AM
Originally the ISS on-board stamps had the following colours: - Octogonal seal issued by RKK Energia: blue
- Circular date stamp issued by RKK Energia: blue
- Circular date stamp issued by Roskosmos: blue
- Postmark (with postal index 101000 of Moscow Main Post Office it belongs to): black
When blue or black ink was exhausted, cosmonauts started to use other colours including red. |
Antoni RIGO
Member Posts: 176
From: Palma de Mallorca, Is. Baleares - SPAIN
Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 10-07-2015 02:41 PM
Thanks Walter for the information provided.As stated, each onboard seal or postmark had a primarly colour. When collectors began to see space flown covers with postmarks applied in red then some of them asked to the cosmonauts the reason. And its answer was so simply as logical: black ink was over. In summary, not significance can be determined in different colour on the onboard ISS postmark.
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akinnaird
Member Posts: 30
From: Arlington, VA, US
Registered: Dec 2013
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posted 10-07-2015 06:42 PM
Very helpful. Thank you. |
fimych
Member Posts: 228
From: Boston MA, USA
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 10-08-2015 12:45 AM
Same actually happened with MIR covers. You can find black, blue, red and even green postmarks. |
astrobv
Member Posts: 53
From: Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Registered: May 2014
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posted 10-09-2015 08:45 AM
Never seen green cancels of Mir, do you have an example? |
Russian
Member Posts: 361
From: France
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 10-07-2016 11:34 AM
There is an agreement between Roscosmos and Russian Post Office in the frame of which every crew going to the ISS take with them some envelopes with their photo and logo of the crew. They put some seals — octagonal ISS, round seal of the Russian segment of the ISS and Russian Post office seal on the stamp. I feel there are 50 envelopes like this for every crew. They return to the Earth with the crew. I saw also 40 years of Apollo-Soyuz flight envelope flown with TMA-18M crew. And also 70 years of Energia Corporation landed in September with Ovchinin's crew. Every envelope has signatures of the ISS mission crewmambers. |
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