page_title: Gold Standard issue
section_title: Stamp design
hierarchical_section_title: Gold Standard issue / Stamp design
caption_attribution_description: English: Stamps of the Soviet Union, Gold Standard (first Soviet definitive issue), perforate, 1925, CPA #149-170(?). Русский: Первые стандартные почтовые марки СССР, «Золотой стандарт» (зубцовый вариант), 1925, ЦФА №№ 149-170(?).
context_page_description: The Gold Standard issue or Small Head issue was the first definitive series of postage stamps issued by the Soviet Union between 1923 and 1927. The stamps were designed by Ivan Shadr.
context_section_description: The design of this series was not new. It was modified and simplified from former stamp issues of the RSFSR. Representatives of the 
  three main strata of the population, the Worker, the Peasant, and the Red Army Soldier, were depicted on the stamps.
  The Russian sculptor and artist-designer Ivan Shadr was the stamp design author. He worked on this project very conscientiously. Live models from his hometown of Shadrinsk were chosen for producing at first sculptures of those three types. Then, the sculptures were photographed from all sides. The final stamp design was selected on the best view of the sculptures.
  The stamps have the inscription Russian: "CCCP" ("USSR"), the value, and the word Russian: "золотом" ("zolotom") that means "in gold".
caption: Perforated versions of the same stamps
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