Moldova stamps

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Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldovan SSR in 1991, as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

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Scott: #66-7P

Issued: 26.12.1992

Admission to UPU

Inside #66: letter sorter and Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #137-9P

Issued: 22.7.1994

Stamp Day

Inside #137: Preparing stamp design

Inside #138: Printing stamps

Inside #139: Checking finished sheets

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Gagauzia

Gagauzia officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia is an autonomous territorial unit of Moldova. Its autonomy is ethnically motivated by the predominance in the region of the Gagauz people, who are primarily Orthodox Turkic-speaking people.

At the end of World War I, all of the territory of Gagauzia became part of the Kingdom of Romania, before being carved up into the Soviet Union in June 1940. From 1941 to 1944 it was again part of Romania, after which it was incorporated into the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. As the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, Gagauzia declared independence in 1990, but was integrated into Moldova in 1994.

Scott: unlistedO

Issued: 24.08.1997 (?)

Space

Inside 0.05: Romania #C175P

Inside 0.10: Romania #2137P

Inside 0.20: Romania #C176P

Inside 0.25: Romania #C192P

Inside 0.50: Bulgaria #C128O

Inside 1.00: Hungary #C326P

Scott: unlistedO

Inside 0.05: Hungary #C284P

Inside 0.10: Hungary #C312P

Inside 0.25: Hungary #C315P

Inside 1.00: Hungary #C327P

Zoltán wrote: Lately, I accidentally came across a series of "SOS" stamps, the only problem is that its publisher is a part of the country that almost no one recognizes, which wants to become independent, called Gagauzia, and would like to secede from Moldova. So-called illegal publishing. The stamp line consists of 10 members and depicts space exploration stamps from the period 1969-1975 (5 Hungarian, 4 Romanian and 1 Bulgarian stamp). 

Lou wrote: I bought these at a NY stamp show, and I remember they were offered by several dealers who dealt in "new issues" from the ex-USSR. One advised me that the first day of issue was August 24, 1997.  I had my doubts as to their validity, but they were cheap and showed a nice group of SOS, so I got them. At the same show and several to follow, I picked up all the reproduced stamps and made up two Vario pages for my 1997 folder. Shortly after, I found out that they were indeed spurious, so I chalked it up to experience, and added them to the list of such SoS issues in my checklists.

Thanks to Zoltán Komlóssyand Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #283P, 284P, 285O, 286P

Thanks to Lou for the scans

Issued: 9.10.1998

140th Anniversary, Romanian Stamps

Inside #283: Romania #1O

Inside #283-4: Romania #2O

Inside #283: Romania #6 and #6a (tete-beche pair)O

Thanks to Lou for the scan

Inside #284: Romania #329O

Thanks to Lou for the scan

Inside #284: Romania type A177O

Thanks to Lou for the scan

Inside #285: Romania #4O

Inside #285: Russia #4132P

Inside #285: Russia #5916P

Inside #286: Romania #3O

Inside #286: Moldova #122O

Inside #286: Moldova #214O

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Scott: #???O

Issued: 05.04.1999

120th Anniversary of Stamps of Sorokskij Uezd

Inside #???: Sorokskij Uezd, Zemstvo (local) 1879

(Thanks to Lou for the scan)

Soroksky Uyezd was one of the subdivisions of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Soroki.

Soroksky Uyezd was created in 1836 alongside Beletsky Uyezd from Yassky Uyezd which then ceased to exist. In 1918, after the October Revolution, the uyezd became part of the Kingdom of Romania until 1944, when Moldavian SSR was created as a result of Eastern Front land exchanges between the Soviets and the Nazis. Finally, in 1949, the "uyezd" territorial subdivision was abolished and three new raions (districts) were created, one of which retained the name as Raion Soroca.

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 17.07.1999

120th Anniversary of Stamps of Yassky Uezd

Inside #???: Yassky Uezd, Zemstvo (local) 1879

(Thanks to Lou for the scan)

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Scott: #356-7O

Issued: 30.5.2000

Exhibitions 2000

Inside #357: Moldova #118O

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Scott: #382(a-c)O

Issued: 23.6.2001

10th Anniversary, Stamps of Moldova

Inside #382a: Moldova #1P

Inside #382b: Moldova #2P

Inside #382c: Moldova #3P

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Scott: #393-4P

Issued: 9.10.2001

Dialogue among Civilizations

Inside #394: Pseudo Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 31.10.2001

130^th Anniversary, Zemstvo post of Orhei

Inside #????: Russia, Orhei (Orgheev) Zemstvo (local) 1885O

(Thanks to Lou for the scan)

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Scott: #????, MI #U133O

Issued: 05.12.2001

10th Anniversary of RCC

Inside MI #U133: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #446P

Issued: 12.6.2003

10^th Anniversary of Issues Europa of Moldova

Inside #446

The margins of the Souvenir Sheet bear issues Europa of Moldova:

#111P (29.12.1993)	#210O (21.6.1996)	#415P (9.5.2002)	#276P (18.7.1998)
#116P (18.6.1994)	#376P (5.5.2001)	#355O (9.5.2000)	#236O (29.6.1997)
#166O (9.5.1995)		#302O (5.5.1999)

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Scott: #496-7O

Issued: 20.7.2005

50^th Anniversary of the first Europa Stamps

Inside #497: Europa type of 1956 (pic of Germany #748P

Scott: #498O

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Scott: #???, MI #U192O

Issued: 04.10.2006

15th Anniversary of RCC

Inside MI #U192: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 16.01.2008

UPU. International Seminar

Inside #???: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #586-7P

Issued: 23.3.2008

150^th Anniversary of First Moldavian Stamps

Inside #586: Romania #1O

Inside #586: Romania #2O

Inside #587: Romania #4O

Inside #587: Romania #3O

150th Anniversary of Moldavia's "Bulls" 21 July 1858 - 31 October 1858

On the 21st July 1858, in the town of Jassy, the Capital of the Principality of Moldavia, there appeared Romania's first stamps. Moldavia, nowadays the northeastern part of Romania is of some historical importance. Already in 1365 a system of intrinsic government came into existence, which under the rule of Prince Stephan the Great (1456 - 1504) fought to maintain independence against Hungary, Poland and the Ottoman Empire. After Stephan's death his successor recognized the authority of the Porte but in return received considerable rights concerning autonomy and the choice of their own Prince - all this provided they remained loyal to their overlords. The Coat of Arms of the small area between the Carpathians and the Black Sea depicted the Auroch-ox, which is to be found on documents and seals of the 14th and 15th centuries. This heraldic symbol graces the four values issued: 27, 54, 81 and 108 parale.

At the end of the Crimean War (1856) the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were under the protection of the Great Powers. In 1857 a omission for the reorganisation of the postal system of Moldavia proposed the introduction of stamps. The first step taken was to order from Vienna double circle postmarks, the strikes indicating a place name and the date and these came into use in April 1857 initially on stampless letters.

The first stamps were designed and prepared in the Moldavian Principality. A local engraver fashioned the four cliché. The iron blanks were imported from France. Each value was individually engraved and distinct recognisable differences can be seen. This is of great importance in expertising these stamps. The four original clichés together with those of the second issue are stored in the Bucharest Postal Museum. In places these are somewhat damaged by corrosion. In 1891 and again on several occasions in later years reprints were manufactured which can be recognised as such; details are given in Volume I and III of the Romanian Handbook.

The preparation of the first issue was carried out by hand, each stamp being individually printed by a simple press. The original sheet consisted of 32 stamps in four horizontal rows each of eight stamps. The two upper rows show the stamps "head up", whereas the two lower rows have the reverse arrangement. This was technically necessary because the printing press could not accommodate four rows at a time. We thus have eight téte-béche pairs (foot to foot) formed by the second and third row.

http://www.rpsl.org.uk/moldavia/index.html

Scott: #587aP

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Scott: #584-5P

Issued: 30.4.2008

Europa – The Letter

Inside #584-5: Pseudo Stamps on Envelopes

Thanks to G.B.

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Scott: #720P

Issued: 23.6.2011

20th Anniversary, Stamps of Moldova

Inside #720a: Moldova #1P

Inside #720b: Moldova #2P

Inside #720c: Moldova #3P

Thanks to Prof. Plinio Richelmi and Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #???O (Imprinted Envelope)

Issued: 12.10.2011

20th Anniversary, First Stamp Exhibition

Inside #???: Moldova #1P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Pre-paid Postcard

25 years of the first postage stamps

Issued: 2016

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Pre-paid Postcard

60th Anniversary of the First Europa Stamps

Issued: 25.11.2016

Inside : Germany #748

(Modified: all imprints, value removed, changed color)

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Pre-paid Postcard

50th anniversary of the Moldovan philatelists union

Issued: 2017

Russia #5792P		Russia #6040P
Russia #5916P	Russia #5860O		Russia #4132O

Moldova #1P	Moldova #283P	Moldova #804O

Moldova #469O	Moldova #410O	Moldova #858O	Moldova #831O

Moldova #728O	Moldova #898O	Moldova #856O

Moldova #866O	Moldova #780O	Moldova #818O	Moldova #621O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #???O

Issued: 22.07.2018

Moldova Stamp Day / 160th Anniversary of First Stamp of Moldova

Inside #???: Romania #1O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #???PP

Issued: 27.08.2021

30th Anniversary of First Stamps

Inside #???: Moldova #1P

Inside #???: Moldova #2P

Inside #???: Moldova #3P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Best website related:

http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/moldova/index.html

http://page.freett.com/wrlz/moldova.html

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