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Armenia Scott 291, of 1921.
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Hi earwaves,
It's actually Armenian rather than Cyrillic.
This is a stamp from Armenia when it was part of the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics, hence the hammer and sickle.
This stamp was never issued because of a change in currency in 1922.
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Armenia - The Essayan Pictorial Set?
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Thanks, everyone! I'm so in awe of the knowledge you people have on what to me are such obscure issues.
My 1960s Ambassador stamp album has Transcaucasian Federated Republic, but not Armenia.
Scott has the 15,000 labeled as "Lake Sevan and Sevan Monastery." Here's a contemporary picture of the the same scene -- without the giant freaky fish!
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There is so much beauty in the world. Too bad it's so big that we can't get to see it all in our life time. At least we get to see some of it in our stamps, photographs and video.
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Hi Everyone;
Whenever I see a town cancel, from England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland, I always like to look up something on Wikipedia about that place. I do the same for other towns on the continent too.
I few years back I received a cancel from Falkirk Scotland, and then a couple years later I had a buyer from Falkirk as well.
This is the famous Falkirk wheel. It was originally presented to investors using a motorized model made using leggo pieces. If you ever make it to Scotland, this is a must see. Michael#####s you will especially like this, altho not a train thing. Just think of a train roundabout, but this is vertical, not horizontal, and is for boats, not trains. You should have one of these for your train layout hey?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
It looks like something from Star Trek. When you get to the animation, click on the image for a larger view.
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Here is the rest of your set from Armenia, they were issued perfed and imperfed. These were used in Armenia and predated the stamps of the Transcaucasian federation first issued in 1923. I see that your stamp is a Blue Green but the stamps I have in both sets are more of a Slate color. Scott does not list a Green, only Slate Blue. So it looks like you still have some mystery with the stamp.
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Antonius, thanks for the array of the set.
Tusken, this year we're going to Scotland and I'll try to adjust our itinerary to visit Falkirk. I'm guessing there are tour boats that ride the Wheel.
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Hi earwaves;
The freaky fish was on that stamp for good reason. This was a monastery that probably was heavily involved in fishing. The photo you have shows what appear to be boat houses, to keep the fishing fleet out of the weather.
@ c3a;
You'll take lots of photos to share...right? The two gondolas that hold the boats can have one very large boat, and the other a very small boat and still be very well balanced. It has to do with laws of Physics and the displacement of a liquid by a solid. The motor that rotates the wheel is only 4 horsepower, and takes several minutes just for one revolution.
Just thinkin'....
TuskenRaider
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Tusk,
I hope you don't think I was insulting Armenians with my "freaky fish" description. I just thought the size made it look weird next to the buildings. Thanks for that info on the boat houses.
I will post pix if we get to Falkirk. Maybe more likely is a side trip to the Victorian-era Anderton Boat Lift, not far from Liverpool and Chester, two of our stops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton_Boat_Lift
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21 Mar 2017
05:24:02pm
What the heck is this? I can't find anything in my stamp identifier book for the six-letter Cyrillic(?) script or for the word that looks like "fnusu." The hammer and sickle make it a Communist country, but not likely Mother Russia. Image size is 45 x 28 mm or about 1-11/16 x 1-1/8 inches.
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Armenia Scott 291, of 1921.
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Hi earwaves,
It's actually Armenian rather than Cyrillic.
This is a stamp from Armenia when it was part of the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics, hence the hammer and sickle.
This stamp was never issued because of a change in currency in 1922.
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Armenia - The Essayan Pictorial Set?
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23 Mar 2017
10:39:41am
re: Help on Mystery Soviet Stamp?
Thanks, everyone! I'm so in awe of the knowledge you people have on what to me are such obscure issues.
My 1960s Ambassador stamp album has Transcaucasian Federated Republic, but not Armenia.
Scott has the 15,000 labeled as "Lake Sevan and Sevan Monastery." Here's a contemporary picture of the the same scene -- without the giant freaky fish!
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There is so much beauty in the world. Too bad it's so big that we can't get to see it all in our life time. At least we get to see some of it in our stamps, photographs and video.
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Hi Everyone;
Whenever I see a town cancel, from England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland, I always like to look up something on Wikipedia about that place. I do the same for other towns on the continent too.
I few years back I received a cancel from Falkirk Scotland, and then a couple years later I had a buyer from Falkirk as well.
This is the famous Falkirk wheel. It was originally presented to investors using a motorized model made using leggo pieces. If you ever make it to Scotland, this is a must see. Michael#####s you will especially like this, altho not a train thing. Just think of a train roundabout, but this is vertical, not horizontal, and is for boats, not trains. You should have one of these for your train layout hey?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
It looks like something from Star Trek. When you get to the animation, click on the image for a larger view.
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re: Help on Mystery Soviet Stamp?
Here is the rest of your set from Armenia, they were issued perfed and imperfed. These were used in Armenia and predated the stamps of the Transcaucasian federation first issued in 1923. I see that your stamp is a Blue Green but the stamps I have in both sets are more of a Slate color. Scott does not list a Green, only Slate Blue. So it looks like you still have some mystery with the stamp.
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Antonius, thanks for the array of the set.
Tusken, this year we're going to Scotland and I'll try to adjust our itinerary to visit Falkirk. I'm guessing there are tour boats that ride the Wheel.
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Hi earwaves;
The freaky fish was on that stamp for good reason. This was a monastery that probably was heavily involved in fishing. The photo you have shows what appear to be boat houses, to keep the fishing fleet out of the weather.
@ c3a;
You'll take lots of photos to share...right? The two gondolas that hold the boats can have one very large boat, and the other a very small boat and still be very well balanced. It has to do with laws of Physics and the displacement of a liquid by a solid. The motor that rotates the wheel is only 4 horsepower, and takes several minutes just for one revolution.
Just thinkin'....
TuskenRaider
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
13 Apr 2017
09:52:24am
re: Help on Mystery Soviet Stamp?
Tusk,
I hope you don't think I was insulting Armenians with my "freaky fish" description. I just thought the size made it look weird next to the buildings. Thanks for that info on the boat houses.
I will post pix if we get to Falkirk. Maybe more likely is a side trip to the Victorian-era Anderton Boat Lift, not far from Liverpool and Chester, two of our stops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton_Boat_Lift
Joe
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