Young Pioneer sounding the assembly — 14 k
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1929.RUS.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- First All-Union Pioneer Rally
1929.RUS.01· piece 2 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Russia (RUS)- Year / date
- 1929-08-18
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- 14 k
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Commemorative
- Colors
- Blue-grey
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- Designer
- Dmitry Golyadkin
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Comb 12¼ × 12
- Printing
- Photogravure
- Size
- 26 × 37 mm
Catalog numbers
- DomfilDomfil thematic catalog number (scouting).
- 929.4
- ScottScott catalog number (Americas).
- SU 412
- MichelMichel catalog number (Europe / DE).
- SU 364AX
- YvertYvert & Tellier catalog number (FR).
- SU 422
- Stanley GibbonsStanley Gibbons catalog number (UK / Commonwealth).
- SU 539
Notes
A Young Pioneer in neckerchief blowing a bugle, the legend ВСЕСОЮЗНЫЙ ПИОНЕРСКИЙ СЛЁТ and the year 1929 around him, ПОЧТА СССР below. Watermark Greek border and rosettes, sheets of 100 in two panes of 50. Domfil 929.4. AFA SU 375, Soloviev SU 313, Zagorsky SU 227. Print run 500,000.
Series history
The Soviet Union issued two commemoratives on 18 August 1929, the opening day of the First All-Union Pioneer Rally in Moscow. Domfil catalogues them as 929.3/4 «Corneta / Bugle».
Both carry the same design by Dmitry Golyadkin: a Young Pioneer in neckerchief blowing a bugle, with ВСЕСОЮЗНЫЙ ПИОНЕРСКИЙ СЛЁТ — All-Union Pioneer Rally — and the year 1929 set around the figure and ПОЧТА СССР beneath. The 10 kopek is olive-brown and the 14 kopek blue-grey; both are photogravure, 26 × 37 mm, comb perforation 12¼ × 12, on paper watermarked with a Greek border and rosettes, in sheets of 100 made up of two panes of 50. The printings were small — 400,000 of the 10 kopek and 500,000 of the 14.
The pair marks the point where the two Russian traditions had already parted. Scouting had been founded in Russia in 1909 and was suppressed after the revolution; the Pioneer organisation was established on 19 May 1922 to take its place, borrowing the outdoor programme, the neckerchief and the bugle while replacing the movement's promise with a communist one. By 1929 it was large enough to fill Moscow for a national rally, while the Scouts who had refused it were abroad, keeping the older movement alive in exile.
The bugler on these stamps became the template for the Eastern-bloc Pioneer issues that follow it in this catalogue, from the Romanian anniversaries of the early 1950s to Poland's Warsaw rally of 1952 and Romania's education-reform stamp of 1958. Beyond the references above the stamps are listed as AFA SU 374–375, Soloviev 312–313 and Zagorsky 226–227.