The 70r Red Army Soldier error or RSFSR 70r error of 1922 is one of the
rarest postage stamp
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s issued by
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
. Due to the double printing
error
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In statistic ...
, one
cliché
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of the
imperforate
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Methods of separation include:
# perforation: cutting rows and columns of small holes
# rouletting: small horizontal and ver ...
25-
stamp sheet
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has a 70-
ruble
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, currencies named ''rub ...
value instead of the correct 100-ruble. Only four intact complete sheets are known.
Description
The sheets contain 25 imperforate 100-ruble orange stamps depicting the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...
soldier that appeared in the
RSFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
1922 Workers and Soldiers
definitive issue. The twelfth stamp in the sheet has a
denomination of 70 rubles, unlike all the others, which have a
face value
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The face value of coins, stamps, or bill is usually its legal value. Ho ...
of 100 rubles.
Rarity
Only four complete sheets of 25 exist, including one in the state collection of the
A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Russia
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.
[ As promoted by the Museum, "the celebrated Red Army Soldier of the 1922–23 standard issue is a well known world class rarity."][
These standout items are dubbed as "one of the greatest rarities in Russian ]philately
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".[ They represent "one of the treasures of Russian philately in general and certainly an important highlight of Russian Soviet Federative Republic collection."][
On 20 February 2014, Cherrystone Auctions in ]New York City
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offered one complete Red Army Soldier sheet, among the items of the Igor Gorski specialised collection of Russia that contained many errors and unique varieties of the RSFSR period. It was sold for $126,500.[
]
See also
* Definitive stamps of Russia
* Definitive stamps of the Soviet Union
Definitive stamps of the Soviet Union were the regular postage stamp issues produced in the USSR between 1923 and 1992.
First definitive issue
The first issue of the Soviet Union definitive stamps appeared in October 1923. It was known as the ...
* Errors, freaks, and oddities
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* First USSR stamps
* Gold Standard issue
The Gold Standard issue or Small Head issue was the first definitive series of postage stamps issued by the Soviet Union between 1923 and 1927. The stamps were designed by Ivan Shadr.
History
The RSFSR Government re-issued definitive stamps w ...
* List of postage stamps
This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way, often due to antiquity or a postage stamp error. Among the best-known stamps are:
* Penny Black (Great Britain)
* Treskilling Yellow (Sweden)
* Bull's Eye (Brazil)
* Br ...
* Postage stamps and postal history of Russia
A Russian Empire postman.
This a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation.
Postal history
Early history
Records mention a system of messengers in the 10th ...
* Soviet and post-Soviet postage rates
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* Soviet Union stamp catalogue
References
Further reading
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Postage stamps
Postage stamps of the Soviet Union
1922 introductions
Postage stamps depicting people