URU - 1969 - APR 25TH - BRIEF DESCRIPTION - WORLD CUP OF VOLLEYBALL, MONTEVIDEO 1969

Uruguay - 1969 - World Cup of Volleyball, Montevideo 1969 ( Previous / Next )

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SERIES --- 0,75 EUR
SERIES with VARIATION (Surchage displaced to right) --- 2,50 EUR
BLOCK --- 1,00 EUR
BLOCK with VARIATION (Double Surchage) --- 15,00 EUR
BLOCK with VARIATION (Surchaged transfered to back) --- 5,00 EUR
BLOCK with VARIATION (Surchage displaced to right) --- 3,00 EUR
BLOCK with VARIATION (Perforation displaced) --- 3,00 EUR
BLOCK of BLOCK --- 15,00 EUR (Includes variations)
 Decorated FDC of C.F.M. --- 4,00 EUR
 Decorated FDC of C.F.U. --- 4,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: April 25th, 1969
Printed: 108.000 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [21 mm. x 35 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 1 stamps
Block of Block Configuration: 12 Blocks [2 x 6]
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [44 mm. x 63 mm.]
Block of Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [340 mm. x 189 mm.]

FDC Type: Decorated cover from two different Philatelic Clubs from Uruguay
FDC Shape and Size: Rectangular [163 mm. x 98 mm.]

Catalogue information:

Michel: Block 76
Ivert: BF 61
Scott: B 8
Stanley & Gibbons: MS 2304

Topics:

Brief Description:

A brief description of the Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Volleyball from a wider Sports, and in particular Volleyball World Cups or Sports World Cups, and more in particular the Volleyball World Cup Uruguay 1969, that was held in Montevideo on April of 1969, and won by the national team of East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic or GDR, a state within the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War Period, from 1949 to 1990.

Now, looking at the desing of the Issue, some other Topics arises, specially another Sport, as Basketball, because the release was just a surcharge of a previous one, issued for another Sport World Cup, in this case a Basketball World Cup, in particular the Fifth Basketball World Cup Uruguay 1967, that was held in Montevideo from May 27th to June 11th of 1967, and won by the national team of Soviet Union, a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991.

Also, all the Countries that participated in this Volleyball World Cup are shown in the Surcharge, so also linked by this Release. This countries are: Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, East Germany, Soviet Union, Japan, Czechoslovakia, a sovereign State in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it Declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1st January 1993, Tunisia, Mexico, United States of America, Cuba, and Uruguay.

Finally, still regarding the Surcharge Design, the Coat of Arms of FUVA, the Federación Uruguaya de Voleibol Amateur, in English Uruguayan Amateur Volleyball Federation is included in it too, giving the realease, not only the Coat of Arms Topic, that also all the link to Uruguayan Volleyball Federation, that was the successor of that Amateur Federation.

Then, another Topics appears, Balls, or in particular Volleyball Balls, are shown both in the Stamp, in the First Day Cancellation, and in the Decoration of the Covers. And in the Cancellation also Hands, Nets and also Maps Topics appears, as the Design consists in a Terrestrial Globe being used as a Volleyball Ball in front of a Vollyeball Net. 

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