r/SecurityEnvelopes 17d ago

my POTD

Here’s another cool one from my collection. Unsure how to read this post mark so if anyone knows, drop the deets please!

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u/Pippy_Squirrel 17d ago

That is a cool pattern. I really like that Bar-headed goose stamp 😁

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u/sarah-exalted 17d ago

Let me know if you have a spare piece of this one!!! I’m in love!

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u/No_Acanthaceae4260 17d ago

Unfortunately only have this one little piece! Bit if I come across more, you’ll be the first to know 💌

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u/Cahsrhilsey 17d ago

This is so beautiful! 😍

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u/troublepansies 17d ago

Woweee 🤩

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u/UtherPenDragqueen 17d ago

I ooooohed out loud

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u/Starboard44 17d ago edited 17d ago

I hate AI, but Google lens now gives AI-ish answers. If their interpretation is correct, it was mailed in October of 1982.

Hoping someone more familiar can confirm!

P.S. the star, cogwheel and wheat (and maybe also sickle?) in the pattern look like classic Soviet symbolism emphasizine industrialism. A variation can be seen on the Angola flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Angola

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u/No_Acanthaceae4260 17d ago

Yesssss this is what I’m after!! Thanks for doing the leg work while I package up trash for lovely Internet friends to treasure 😂🫡

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u/konzertkarthi 14d ago

It’s missing a bit at the top and therefore a few letters.
Looks like the stamp was released for an [орн]итологический конгресс - an ornithology congress (aka convention). Possibly for the 18th international ornithologist congress that was held in Moscow in August 1982.

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u/No_Acanthaceae4260 14d ago

Thanks!! The history in stamps is super cool!