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Cozmosis22
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posted 05-11-2017 02:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cozmosis22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have an old postcard with this unusual ship, airplane, and rocket postmark dated liftoff of Lunik II, September 12, 1959. Has additional postmark dated moon landing two days later.

An example of this is found in the 1964 edition of Catalogue Lollini; however it shows a 3rd standard round Tcheliabinsk, CCCP postmark. Since the above example does not have that does that make it incomplete?

cosmos-walter
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posted 05-11-2017 03:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cosmos-walter   Click Here to Email cosmos-walter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is a Cub Cachet rather than a postmark.

German Pfau encouraged local stamp collector societies in different Soviet towns to issue such club cachets and listed them in catalogues. They are neither official nor connected with postal service.

Cozmosis22
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posted 05-11-2017 03:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cozmosis22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Danke. So this was just a cachet decoration for Lunik II that wasn't officially postmarked? These club covers were produced and collected but they were not intended to be mailed?

fimych
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posted 05-11-2017 06:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fimych   Click Here to Email fimych     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
These are officially approved "club" cachets, on some occasions they were used on the posted items but as a cachet only. Most of such club items had printed cachet and stamped cachet, but not all of them — like in your case, Chelyabinsk had almost no printed cachets.

This is another Chelyabinsk example on the mailed cover.

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