Gandhi Stamps Russia - Used register cover to Austria - Very clean cover as if it is not travelled through postal stream!!

Hello Gandhi Collectors,

In October 2011, register cover from Russia to Austria was sold for $123.!! It's surprising that this cover still maintain high quality even after 40+ years and going through postal stream.!! Also not sure whether it has receiving postmark CDS from Austria?

Register cover looks good. It has 2 Gandhi stamps which is not easy to find.

It's amazing to see high pricing for used covers from USSR (Russia), Cameroun and Somalia.

Seller : divlji (Croatia)

Buyer : www_stampsforindia_com

What I have noticed in my 3 years of collecting is that there is expensive(inflated) Gandhi stamps and philatelic material being sold from Croatia and Canada!! (Example: From Croatia I saw a Croatia Gandhi Special cancellation post card that was sold for $55!! I also saw an FDC of Niger, Senegal sold from Canada.!!)

Another thing I notice that buyers are from different countries (such as UK, India etc) but they are getting delivery in Canada.!! I always do more research before I bid on it and  when I see something from Canada and Croatia, I eventually  avoid bidding it except ebay id "rlingen"

Do I have to write anything else to readers of this blog.!!

Thanks

Ketankumar Patel.
My First year experience in Gandhi Philately.
My 100th blog post.
Gandhi Stamp Collecting is SCAM. My 3 year experience tell me Yes!!
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Gandhi Russia USSR 1969 Stamp on Cacheted Cover : Is it FDC or just Cacheted cover? Why Gandhi Philately is expensive.!!

Hello Gandhi Collectors,

Recently Russia Stamp on Cacheted Cover was sold for $155.!!! This makes interesting philatelic material to do more research on this.

Seller : runforcovers
Buyer : www_stampsfromindia_com

Looks like other bidders are dkkphila, adityamootha, suratphilatelist etc.

Also similiar cover was for sale in Feb/Mar 2009 on ebay and seller was "MAXWELLBRUSHSTICK" or on delcampe it is " Bullterrier" and buyer was "JASMINE258".

Maxwellbrushstick was person who introduce me to delcampe. !! (Very interesting seller.!! Never bought again from him.!!)

Other top 2 bidders were bbc_goodtimes and  rthaper.

Also "suratphilatelist" is bidder in this one too.!! Ofcourse I was also bidder in this one."vxvm". After this I stop bidding on RUSSIA / USSR FDC.!!!

You will be surprised that I have screen shot from 3 years ago.!!! Which indicates I am very serious about learning Gandhi Philately.  But still I have following questions about this cover.

Is this just a Gandhi Stamp on Cacheted cover or FDC or something else.!!? Both were sold differently so not sure.!!

Do you think $155 & $127 makes sense for this ? (Looks like 20% price appreciation in  3 years.!! Not bad)

Will this increase any value in  Gandhi Exhibition or Personal Collection?

My another blog post about USSR Russia Gandhi FDC.

Not sure why so much bidding and pricing.!!! but if you put all the pieces together and try to solve this puzzle then you will be surprised about what's going on in Gandhi Philately.!! Think about it and figured it out.

Thanks
Ketankumar Patel.

My First year experience in Gandhi Philately.
My 100th blog post.
Gandhi Stamp Collecting is SCAM. My 3 year experience tell me Yes!!

USSR Gandhi 1969 FDC - Russia Gandhi FDC

Hello Gandhi collectors,

Recently I was researching about Gandhi FDC from Russia. To me it looks like this is not offical FDC from USSR postal service.

Reason for my assumption is

1) It is a regular rubber stamp instead of fancy pictorial cancel.
2) Also FDC cover is also very simple compare to the theme of the stamp.

Look at other 1968, 1969, 1970 FDC and you can see the difference. Following are some of the example of 1968/69/70. I also search for USSR FDC for 1982,1984 and it looks like it all has fancy cancel with appropriate theme or logo on it.

After looking to all this FDC it is private FDC or ?








If anyone of you have more information than please comment on this blog so we all can know more about this FDC.

Ketankumar Patel.

My First year experience in Gandhi Philately.
My 100th blog post.
Gandhi Stamp Collecting is SCAM. My 3 year experience tell me Yes!!
(My Son's blog http://usapostman.blogspot.com)

Click to see 50th Anniversary
Special Cancellation