First Day Cover Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of the Great Russian Artist Ilya Repin, 1969.
The size is 6 ½" x 4 ½", published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR for the Soviet All-Union Philatelic Society, circulation 55,000. The obverse features a fragment of Repin's famous 1891 painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The special postal stamp with the same image is stamped with the First Day Cancel, issued by the Post Office of Repino, Leningrad Region, dated 5 August 1969 and showing Repin's facsimile in the center.
In excellent condition. The postal stamp is glued to the postcard only by its right-side half. However, it is wear-free and provide
The size is 6 ½" x 4 ½", published by the Ministry of Communications of the USSR for the Soviet All-Union Philatelic Society, circulation 55,000. The obverse features a fragment of Repin's famous 1891 painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The special postal stamp with the same image is stamped with the First Day Cancel, issued by the Post Office of Repino, Leningrad Region, dated 5 August 1969 and showing Repin's facsimile in the center.
In excellent condition. The postal stamp is glued to the postcard only by its right-side half. However, it is wear-free and provides an opportunity to glimpse at its placeholder which, as it turns out, also has Repin's facsimile and years of life, thus precisely repeating everything depicted in the stamp. The upper left-hand corner of the obverse is slightly and unobtrusively creased. The verso is mostly clean, showing just a bit of storage wear.
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