Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily

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]

Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily

Организация Уполномоченного по филателии и бонам в СССР (ОУФБ)
Agency overview
Formed	30 March 1922; 103 years ago (1922-03-30)
Preceding agency	Russian Bureau of Philately
Dissolved	25 October 1926; 98 years ago (1926-10-25)
Superseding agency	Soviet Philatelic Association
Jurisdiction	VTsIK
Headquarters	Moscow, USSR 55°46′23″N 37°35′26″E
Agency executive	Feodor Chuchin, Commissioner
Parent agency	POMGOL

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The Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily existed till 1926 and was superseded by the Soviet Philatelic Association.^[1]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