File:BDI 1965 MiNr0173A 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 an US-communications satellite "Syncom" of the NASA; satellite drawing beside a transmission aerial (antenna); stamp postmarked
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The name of the US-American "Syncom" satellites means "Synchronous Communications Satellite" and goes back to the first satellites of this series which were tested in geosynchronous and geostationary orbits of the earth from 1963 onwards. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, were these satellites part of the military "Leasat"-program of the NASA.
Stamp: Michel No. 173A; Yvert & Tellier: No. 144; Scott: No. 132
Color: multicolored with light olive green background
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 14 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
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the Kingdom of Burundi
Permission
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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 "Syncom-1" satellite
    The "Syncom-1" satellite
Picture description "Syncom"-satellite and transmission aerial
First day of issue
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Imprimerie de Timbres-Postes",Paris (probably)
Printing technique Offset printing
Circulation 25,000
Perforation Line perforation, L 13½
MICHEL Nr. Burundi, Nr. 173A
SCOTT Nr. Burundi, No. 132

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