Worldwide Rare Stamps and Postal History

Soviet Union stamps of 1933-40

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1933, Ethnographic issue, Uzbeks, perforated (11½) proof of 15k in dark brown, size 50×23.5mm instead of 48×22.5mm for issued stamp, raster (square) printing instead of phototype on watermarked Borders and Rosettes paper, small thin from hinge removal, large part of OG, F/VF appearance of this rare proof, ex-Vadim Ustinovsky, Sc. #505