File:BDI 1965 MiNr0168A pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of the Kingdom of Burundi ("Royaume du Burundi"); 1965; commemorative stamp of the issue "100th Anniversary of the UIT ("International Telecommunication Union")"; stamp motive with a "Telstar"-satellite and an old telephone handpiece.; stamp postmarked 1965 in Bujumbura (old name: "Usumbura", capital of Burundi)
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The "Telstar" was the first civile telecommunication satellite for an broadcast and TV transmission in USA and West Europe. This satellite was launched on by the NASA and was only active for 7 month. Nevertheless he is locaced still today (2019) in the near-earth orbit.
Stamp: Michel No. 168A; Yvert & Tellier: No. 139; Scott: No. 127
Color: multicolored with violet background
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 3 F (Francs)
Postage validity: from 3 July 1965 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines): 29.0 x 59.5 mm
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Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the Kingdom of Burundi
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Public domain This work was first published in Burundi and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law No. 1/021 of December 30, 2005 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights in Burundi, enacted 2005 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:
  • It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is a collective work, audiovisual or posthumous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
  • It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the date of its creation
  • It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
  • It is one of "acts, legal decisions and decisions of administrative bodies and the official translations of such texts"
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stamp also imperforate

  • The first "Telstar" satellite (1:1 model) in the Science Museum in London (photograph from 2018)
    The first "Telstar" satellite (1:1 model) in the Science Museum in London (photograph from 2018)
Picture description "Telstar"-satellite and old telephone handpiece
First day of issue
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Imprimerie de Timbres-Postes",Paris (probably)
Printing technique Offset printing
Circulation 100,000
Perforation Line perforation, L 13½
MICHEL Nr. Burundi, Nr. 168A
SCOTT Nr. Burundi, No. 127

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