CCCP Paperclip Propulsion Rocket Stamp

I guessed that the paperclips were part of a maglev propulsion system.

After you exercise *your* imagination, you can find authoritative answers at:

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/dev...tellites.pdf

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/dev...r/index.html

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

And, yes, that mis-information stamp was GPU (Genuinely Postally Used):



One correspondent suggested:




Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

.....thks ikeyP....the first link didnt open for me...but the 2nd was amazing

The PDF document can also be reached thru their site.

The link still works for me.

PM for a copy.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

When I first laid eyes on that ridiculous sausage-pile of a spaceship, I naturally thought that it was yet another Cold War Deception stamp.

Et tu, petard, et tu ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16 ... deWiki thinks that the spaceship is real, and that the mission actually happened

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a...3063170.html ... a convincing stock photo of the spaceship in its lab, dated 1971, though the launch was in 1970

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/...posite-image ... a "composite" image, which was how we pronounced the word "photoshopped" back in the day

The stamp, of course, is utterly real ...

Country: Soviet Union, USSR
Series: Soviet Automatic Station "Luna-16"
Catalog codes:
Michel SU 3838
Stamp Number SU 3798
Yvert et Tellier SU 3687
Stanley Gibbons SU 3885
Issued on: 1970-12-28
Size: 28 x 40 mm
Colors: Dark grey blue
Perforation: comb11½
Printing: Photogravure
Face value: 10 Russian kopek
Print run: 4,000,000

... as is the 19710522 postmark at Kievsky (railway station) (sorting site in Moscow) ... Thanks, Alexey !

The addressee was a US Army non-com (WW2), and a founding member and Treasurer / Secty-Treas (1952-1991) of the Korea Stamp Society.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey