Help Identity These Remains Of A World Collection

As some of you might know I buy world collections and incorporate them into my collection. Of course most are easy some, however some are very hard to figure out. If someone could help me I would be grateful.

9) This I can't identity at all, but it seems like a man's head is in the middle. Any ideas?



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../Stamp51.jpg

13) Again these seems Italian, but am not sure.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../Stamp47.jpg

20) No names again. I've begun to dislike these.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../Stamp26.jpg

24) Again with no names.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../Stamp25.jpg

30) Has to be from a Soviet Country but which one?



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../Stamp14.jpg

31) Has Polish written on it, but could it be from WW2 or is it a Cinderella?



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../Stamp13.jpg

I know its a lot to get through and I'm very grateful for all the help I get! Thanks!

Edit: Thank you all for helping. I really appreciate it!

29) is a Christmas stamp from Ireland (45p). It shows EIRE top right. The 57c is the euro denomination.

1) us christmas seal boys town charity 1963
2) austria
3) France (RF)
4) Curacao (nth eastern sth america neth possession)
5) Herm Island near Guernsey, a local stamp
6) Early Hungary ("envelope" style)
7) cochin post see tony mac--fake
8)charkhari see Tony Mac ---fake
9) poor scan
10) russia SG144 1914 3 kopek semi postal war charity
10b) UNKNOWN
11) netherlands postage due
12) Netherlands SG259 1923
13) GUESS= italy-districts acquired from austria
13)(B) Italy parcel post (half of a 2 stamp brace) SGP679 1927
14) (A) China SG1211 1949 nvi opt
14) (B) North East China=SGNE185 1949 $1500
14) (C) East china=SGEC 334a 1949
14)(D)East china=SGEC360 1949
15) italy
16) (A) spain telegraph stamp
16) (B) spain 1898 SGW30 war tax stamp
17) (A) Spain charity label for orphans of postal workers
the gentleman on the label is david e hughes.
17) (C) Batum (country is written on stamp)
former russian province 1919 see brit occup opts
Yours is a Cinderella/Phantasy stamp
19) Spain barcelona tax / charity label, no longer listed in gibbons
20) (A) yugoslavia "chainbreaker" SG155 1920
20) (B) yugoslavia "allegory of yugoslavia" SG157 1920
20) (C) UNKNOWN cinderella
22) Thomond : thomond is a district in western Ireland. Cinderella
24) (C) the "B" is an icon for Belgian Rail Parcel post.
25) Nagaland-nth east India - this is a cinderella
but Nagaland exists and has a philatelic society.
26) Spain charity "plan for valencia" set of 10
1957 flood in valencia- this charity / tax went towards
building a floodway (thx to Ryan)
27) Turkey SG1012a 1923
28) staffa-cinderella - island near scotland
30) possibly a "tab" amongst a souvenir sheet from Russia


Rod off for a rest, a cup of coffee and a sticky bun.

To start out with your first entry (Boys Town) they had been issuing cinderella-type stamps every Christmas as a fundraiser. This link will give you the background information you are looking for on the organization:

http://www.boystown.org/about-boys-town

I previously posted this link in another thread under "cinderellas". It's a good stamp identifier resource for identifying Bogus Issues (i.e. cinderellas for obscure areas not meant for actual postal duty.) You can search this site and answer many of your own questions on many of these issues:

http://www.iswsc.org/iswsc_identbogus.html#E

29 obvious- `Eire`

Katchem - in order to maintain some level of readability would you be able to update you thread as items are identified?
You can use the edit post - (icon has what looks like a pencil)
Some unusual items there which I'll try and assist in identifying.

15) Italy - I think you will have heard of that.
20) Top item looks to be Greece.

Unfortunately some of your scans/photos are not clear enough.

If you search the forums for Tutorial: a number people have written some scanning and image hosting tips which may help.

29 Ireland -2000 (Nollaig-Christmas).
15 Italy

Items 7 and 8: 7 is definitely a dud; 8 looks pretty shaky - I wouldn't be spending money on it on the basis of that scan. (There are a lot of fakes of these going around.)

Edit: After looking at the Charkhari again, it's definitely a dud also.

20 a,b Yugoslavia (in fact these are Slowenia)- 1919.

24 b,d again Yugoslavia (Slowenia)- 24b 1919 24d 1920

14: These all appear to be East China. For what it's worth, these



are the characters for East China. They might occur in this order, or reversed.

23: This gets a bit messy. They're all from Manchuria. The first is Northeast China. The characters for Northeast are



Again, they can appear in either order.

The second is Northeast China or post-liberation Manchuria.

The third is Manchukuo.

The first is China SG1211 1949 nvi opt
The second is North East China=SGNE185 1949 $1500
third is east china=SGEC 334a 1949
fourth is east china=SGEC360 1949

10b is a south russia surcharge stamp

it has the Imperial Eagle and Post Horns found on Russian Empire stamps.
Mapka is short for the Finland currency "Markka."
This is a South Russia issue.
Stamps of Russia Surcharge.
Pre-1917

Am I brilliant? Yes, but I found this information here. You may want to book mark it.

http://www.stampmasteralbum.com/For...entifier.htm

Thank you all for your help! I've edited the OP so that only those that are unsolved are showing. I really appreciate your help!

Regarding the scans please do let me know which ones I should rescan and I will do that as soon as I can.

Nobody recognised the Indian stamp?
21) is an Indian definitive stamp from the Science and Technology series (1986-95). Issued 27 Feb 1987 (SG1213). India (in Hindi and English) is on the LHS, obscured by the cancellation.

17) is Russia 1964 "The way to the stars" Sputniks 4k (SG 2979 B in SOTW). Pochta CCCP 4k is almost visible across the bottom of the stamp.