Imperial Russia, except the overprint with the star, which is early USSR (c. 1922)
Some of these stamps are in my Finland collection.
Thanks everyone ! At least I know what catalogue to look in now!
dollhaus, I respectfully disagree.
My Scott catalog shows an image of stamps with this style under both Finland and Russia, but the Finland issues have a different inscription under the central lozenge thing (3 Cyrillic characters, a number, and "Pen."; presumably a description of the denomination?) Finnish denominations for this design are 2p (Scott #64), 5p (#65), and 20p (#67) in the 1901 release on chalky paper, and then in a regular paper release, the same denominations again: 2p (#70), 5p (#71), and 20p (#73).
Finland #46 is a 1k denomination with orange-yellow ink with a very similar design (and the words under the central design match), but there are little dot-in-circle designs around the central lozenge.
In the Russia section, there's #46 which looks the same as the picture to me; it's the example stamp for this design in my 2010 Scott catalog, and the catalog image is in color.
Russia #49 is 5k and the ink is described in the catalog as red-violet. The 5p Finland stamps above are all green.
Russia #50 is a 7k denomination, and is dark blue. There is a Finnish stamp (#50) which is 7k, but again, it has the little dot-in-circle designs around the central part of the stamp.
The overprint looks like Russia Scott 220.
The next three look like Russia 76, Russia 41 or 57C (paper differences & perfs), and Russia 64 or 83 (paper and perf differences).
Here's an image of Finland #46 from HipStamp that shows the dot-in-circle design elements around the central lozenge.
And thanks to StampCollector and dollhaus for pointing out that there are Finnish stamps that look like these Russian stamps! I looked through the stamps that I had initially categorized as Imperial Russia and found 2 that are definitely Finnish.
Here is the difference between the Finland stamps and the Russian stamps:
Russia on the left, Finland on the right. Note the "dot in circle" device on the Finnish stamps.
Roy
Thanks everyone! Love the collective knowledge here!
Thanks to Roy for this!
I copied his response - with the images - and printed 2 copies and inserted them
in my catalogs at the beginning of each respective country's section!
From an early Stamp Finder catalog.
I’ve been searching online catalogues and I think these are Estonian, but I’m not sure. I think the one with the overprint might be from when the Russians became involved in Estonia in 1920? Not sure. I read up on Estonian history on Wikipedia. It is complicated. If anyone could tell me anything about these stamps or suggest where I might find more information, they would be a great help!
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Imperial Russia, except the overprint with the star, which is early USSR (c. 1922)
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Some of these stamps are in my Finland collection.
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Thanks everyone ! At least I know what catalogue to look in now!
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
dollhaus, I respectfully disagree.
My Scott catalog shows an image of stamps with this style under both Finland and Russia, but the Finland issues have a different inscription under the central lozenge thing (3 Cyrillic characters, a number, and "Pen."; presumably a description of the denomination?) Finnish denominations for this design are 2p (Scott #64), 5p (#65), and 20p (#67) in the 1901 release on chalky paper, and then in a regular paper release, the same denominations again: 2p (#70), 5p (#71), and 20p (#73).
Finland #46 is a 1k denomination with orange-yellow ink with a very similar design (and the words under the central design match), but there are little dot-in-circle designs around the central lozenge.
In the Russia section, there's #46 which looks the same as the picture to me; it's the example stamp for this design in my 2010 Scott catalog, and the catalog image is in color.
Russia #49 is 5k and the ink is described in the catalog as red-violet. The 5p Finland stamps above are all green.
Russia #50 is a 7k denomination, and is dark blue. There is a Finnish stamp (#50) which is 7k, but again, it has the little dot-in-circle designs around the central part of the stamp.
The overprint looks like Russia Scott 220.
The next three look like Russia 76, Russia 41 or 57C (paper differences & perfs), and Russia 64 or 83 (paper and perf differences).
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Here's an image of Finland #46 from HipStamp that shows the dot-in-circle design elements around the central lozenge.
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
And thanks to StampCollector and dollhaus for pointing out that there are Finnish stamps that look like these Russian stamps! I looked through the stamps that I had initially categorized as Imperial Russia and found 2 that are definitely Finnish.
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Here is the difference between the Finland stamps and the Russian stamps:
Russia on the left, Finland on the right. Note the "dot in circle" device on the Finnish stamps.
Roy
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Thanks everyone! Love the collective knowledge here!
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
Thanks to Roy for this!
I copied his response - with the images - and printed 2 copies and inserted them
in my catalogs at the beginning of each respective country's section!
re: Are these Estonia? And when?
From an early Stamp Finder catalog.