Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily

Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily

Организация Уполномоченного по филателии и бонам в СССР (ОУФБ)
Agency overview
Formed	30 March 1922
Preceding agency	Russian Bureau of Philately
Dissolved	25 October 1926
Superseding agency	Soviet Philatelic Association
Jurisdiction	VTsIK
Headquarters	Moscow, USSR 55°46′23″N 37°35′26″E / 55.77306°N 37.59056°E
Agency executive	Feodor Chuchin, Commissioner
Parent agency	POMGOL

Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily (Russian: Организация Уполномоченного по филателии и бонам в СССР (ОУФБ)) was established in Moscow in 1922 by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) for matters concerned with philately and bonds. An old Bolshevik Feodor Chuchin headed this organisation.^[1]

History

To help finance the Central Famine Relief Committee (POMGOL), VTsIK decided to sell abroad postage stamps of Imperial Russia and the newly formed governments of the Civil War period. The idea was to obtain hard currency for them. Feodor Chuchin was named in 1921 the POMGOL commissioner for matters pertaining to stamp donations.^[1]

In March 1922, the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily^{[lower-alpha 1]} was set up. Chuchin was appointed to supervise its activities in Soviet Russia and abroad.^[2] The sale of stamps and paper money was profitable:

“	In the financial report for November 1922 it was indicated that the finance office of the VTsIK received deposits worth 2,970,000 rubles on the organisation's account.	”
	— from Sovetskaya Kultura,[lower-alpha 2] 10 March 1983, "In those distant years".[1]

The Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily existed till 1926 and was superseded by the Soviet Philatelic Association.^[1]

• Examples of international trading tax stamps issued by the Organisation
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  1923
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  1923
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  1925

See also

• All-Russian Society of Philatelists
• First All-Union Philatelic Exhibition
• International trading tax stamp
• Leniniana (philately)
• Moscow Society of Philatelists and Collectors
• Philatelic International
• Russian Bureau of Philately
• Soviet Philatelic Association
• Soviet Philatelist

Notes

1. Collecting stock and bond certificates.
2. The Moscow central newspaper (Soviet Culture).

References

1. Polchaninov, R.; Translated by G. Shalimoff and D. Skipton (1986). "From the history of philately in the USSR". Rossica: Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately. 108–109: 46–52. ISSN 0035-8363. Archived from the original on 2015-05-15. Retrieved 2015-05-15. Reprinted from 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo', New York, 27 July 1986, in the column 'Collector's Corner'.
2. Прохоров, А. М., ed. (1978). "Чучин Фёдор Григорьевич" [Chuchin, Fedor Grigor’evich]. Большая советская энциклопедия: в 30 т. (1970–1979) [The Great Soviet Encyclopedia] (in Russian and English). 29 (Чаган – Экс-ле-Бен) (3rd ed.). М. [Moscow]: Советская энциклопедия [Soviet Encyclopedia]. Retrieved 2015-06-08.

Further reading

• Grant, J. (July 1995). "The socialist construction of philately in the early Soviet era". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 37 (3): 476–493. doi:10.1017/S0010417500019770. ISSN 0010-4175. JSTOR 179216. Retrieved 2015-05-15. Archived from the original and another source on 2015-05-15.

External links

• Media related to Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily at Wikimedia Commons