USSR 1969 Repin paintings

• Label : "Poschta SSSR" ("Ministry of Communication of the USSR" (was the official postal administration of the USSR 1946-1991)); 1969; commemorative stamps of the issue "125th anniversary of birth of Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin";

(issue of 5 stamps)

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 3651-3655: Yvert & Tellier: No. 3513-3517; Scott: No. 3624-3628
• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal values : 4 - 6 - 10 - 12 - 16 K (Kopeks)
• Postage validity : since 03-08-1969
• Designed by : V(ictor ?) Pimenow
• Printed by : "Goznak printery", Moscow or Leningrad ("Goznak" = "Goszudarvstvennui snak")
• Print pricess : offset printing and photogravure, combined on coated paper
• Perforation :

- Comb perforation, K 12½ : 12 (4, 6, 12, 16 Kopeks)

- Comb perforation, K 12 : 12½ (10 Kopeks)

• Print runs :

- 4 K (Kopeks) : 6,000,000

- 6 K (Kopeks) : 5,500,000

- 10 K (Kopeks) : 5,000,000

- 12 K (Kopeks) : 4,500,000

- 16 K (Kopeks) : 4,000,000

• Stamp :

- horizontal format (printed area of a single stamp) : 47.5 x 33.0 mm

- vertical format (printed area of a single stamp) : 33.0 x 47.5 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue "125th anniversary of birth of Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin";
(issue of 5 stamps)

Stamps

mint

Michel No. 3651, mint	Michel No. 3652, mint	Michel No. 3653, mint
Michel No. 3654, mint	Michel No. 3655, mint

postmarked

Michel No. 3651, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 3652, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 3653, postmarked with CTO
Michel No. 3654, postmarked with CTO	Michel No. 3655, postmarked with CTO

To the single stamp motives:
- 4 K (Kopeks) : detail of the painting "Barge-haulers on the Volga" (German title: "Die Wolgatreidler"); painting created in 1870-1873 in the style of the Russian Realism; contemporary located at the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
- 6 K (Kopeks) : detail of the painting "Unexpected Visitors"; painting created in 1888 in the style of the Russian Realism; contemporary located at the Tretyakov-Gallery, Moscow
- 10 K (Kopeks) : mirror-inverted detail of the painting "Self-portrait" and signature, painting contemporary located at the Tretyakov-Gallery, Moscow
- 12 K (Kopeks) : detail of the painting "The Refusal of Confession before Execution"; painting created in 1879-1883 in the style of the Russian Realism; contemporary located at the Tretyakov-Gallery, Moscow
- 16 K (Kopeks) : detail of the painting "The Dneper Cossaks" or "The Sapporoshian Cossaks are writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan" (= Sultan Mehmet IV); painting created in 1891 in the style of the Russian Realism; contemporary located at the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg