What is Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily?
{{Infobox Government agency |agency_name = Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily |nativename = Организация Уполномоченного по филателии и бонам в СССР (ОУФБ) |formed = {{start date and age|1922|3|30|df=y}} |preceding1 = [[Russian Bureau of Philately]] |dissolved = {{end date and age|1926|10|25|df=y}} |superseding = [[Soviet Philatelic Association]] |jurisdiction = [[VTsIK]] |headquarters = Moscow, [[USSR]] |coordinates = {{coord|55|46|23|N|37|35|26|E|type:landmark_region:SU|display=inline}} |chief1_name = Feodor Chuchin |chief1_position = Commissioner |parent_agency = [[Pomgol|POMGOL]] }} '''Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily''' 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]].<ref name=Rossica>{{cite journal|quote=[Reprinted from 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo', New York, 27 July 1986, in the column 'Collector's Corner']|author=Polchaninov, R.|others=Translated by G. Shalimoff and D. Skipton|year=1986|title=From the history of philately in the USSR|journal=Rossica: Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately|volume=108–109|pages=46–52|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00045/49j|accessdate=2015-05-15|archive-date=2015-05-15|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6YXjjbDpf?url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00045/49j|url-status=bot: unknown}}Archived from on 2015-05-15.</ref> == History == To help [[finance]] the Central [[Famine]] Relief Committee (POMGOL), VTsIK decided to sell abroad [[postage stamp]]s of [[Imperial Russia]] and the newly formed governments of the [[Russian Civil War|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 [[donation]]s.<ref name=Rossica/> In March 1922, the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily{{efn|Collec