Travel the World of Postage Stamps - World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa - Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa) - Soviet Union 1975 - Michel's USSR 4377 - my hobby
Travel the World of Postage Stamps - World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa - Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa) - Soviet Union 1975 - Michel's USSR 4377 - my hobby.
Greetings friends!
Today we will continue our walk through the exhibition center of the Japanese city of Okinawa, during the international exhibition EXPO 75 entitled "The Sea and Its Future."
And, in this, we will be helped by another postage stamp from a series of postage stamps World Fair "EXPO-75, issued in the USSR in 1975 and timed to coincide with the participation of the USSR in this exhibition.
Strangely, the USSR did not give the Kuriles to Japan, but they had the nerve to come to visit the one who was robbed, and, Japan, proved to be a very hospitable host who does not remember evil, lol.
So, on the postage stamp, which received a denomination of 4 kopecks of the USSR, we see the shell of a mollusk that lives in the Black Sea called - Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa).
Since early childhood I have been pulling the rapanes from the seabed. Then, it was a subject for collection.
At that time, no one ate rape. Of interest was only the shell, which was used to make various souvenirs.
The alleys to the Black Sea beaches were scattered with merchants who offered tourists crafts from rapanas and mussels.
But, now, many years later, rape has become a part of the diet of many gourmets, but, unfortunately, or fortunately, I do not understand the taste of this shellfish.
It is difficult to imagine all the money turnover that revolved around these, not very bright shells, but children dreamed of putting the shell to their ear and hearing the sound of the sea, and their parents paid for it.
This postage stamp has received 7,300,000 copies in galleries.
Let's take a look at this postage stamp.
Information about this postage stamp:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
Name: Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 4 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4377.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 7,300,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.19 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.11 - $ 0.17.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
Below, you will see previous postage stamps from this series and links to their descriptions:
Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Soviet Union, USSR.
Subject: # Fishes, # Fauna, # Animals, # USSR.
Series: World Fair "EXPO-75", Okinawa.
*Name: Russian Sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 3 kopecks of the USSR.
Michel's Tanzania catalog code: 4376.
Episode release date: July 18, 1975.
Perforation: comb 11½.
Postage stamp size: 50 x 50 mm.
Printing technology: Photogravure.
Circulation: 8,300,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.27.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 0.14.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog.
Author @barski
Ukraine
**I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone. For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.*
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