What Am I Looking At Here?

Hi first of all i'm from belgium, so excuse me if my english isn't that good.

I'm new to this and i'm thinking of making collecting one of my hobbys.

Someone gave me a bunch of usa stamps, and I picked these out of the bunch to ask what they are and maybe how much the value is.
But where would it be better to ask about these stamps than here?

Overview:



What is this stamp:



I was wondering if this one is more special because of the stamp:



This one looks special to me even if the corner has a chunk out of it.
I tried to search this one on online catalogues etc, but this one has no perforations:



And I also found this, I don't even know what it is:



There's also this one, I know it's a jefferson davis stamp.
And I also know there 3 kinds of this stamp, but which one is it:



I also found this envelope:



So please tell me what do I have here, I would appreciate it greatly!

Hello and welcome!
Your item from New Haven, Connecticut is a meter label. It's not a stamp per se, but people do collect them.

The round black cancel with number 10 is called a fancy cancel. They come in all sorts of shapes and designs as postmasters would carve the corks. They are better collected on cover (on the original envelope) so you can see the whole postmark and cancel.

The 10 cent stamp without perforations is an older one from the 1850's. It does have some damage to it which lowers the value quite a bit otherwise it would be a good stamp. Someone else here will probably can tell you the Scott catalog number.

The 1 cent item is from a stamped postal envelope. It has been cut away from the envelope. These are usually called "cut squares", but the margins are cut too close and unevenly.

The Jefferson stamp is from the Confederate Stamps of America. There's a good chance it's Scott 11, but someone else can verify that.

The last item is a complete stamped postal envelope, a type of postal stationery. It's unused, but preprinted for a business with nice advertising.

It's a nice start if you are interested in collecting. You can always ask more questions. For a printed source, you might want to find a Scott's Stamp Catalogue for U.S. stamps (either volume 1 or the U.S. Specialized) and read the introduction to get familiar with all the terms and how to read the catalog. Are you just interested in U.S. or other countries as well?

Enjoy!
Will

Thanks for answering.

Yes i'm mainly interested in american stamps.
Because personally they are beautiful stamps.

I got a box full of them, and also a american collector book with some stamps in it.

Sweet! I love boxes full of stamps. Never know what you'll find.

Let me add a few details to what Battlestamps already said:

The separate item you show last as a 2c printed envelope is an embossed envelope. The government prepare envelopes which had a stamp printed on it already. This one was was also printed with the address of a private company, to be used as a return envelope for sending some kind of payment.

Top row:
The first item is the design portion of another type of embossed envelope, used from New York, NY.
The 1c stamp in the middle of the first row and first in the second row are both Scott number 219, the 1c "small banknote: of 1890 - both with damaged perforations.
the last item top row is a 15c from a complex groups of stamps called the Washington-Franklins, or Third Bureau Issue, series. To identify it is necessary to look at several features.

2nd row:
the second stamp in this row is Scott #304, the 5c from the postage stamp series of 1902. It has a top straight edge and partial guide line for separating the panes of stamps.
the third stamp is a revenue from 1875-78, Scott #R152
the last stamp row 2 is the 5c Washington Bicentennail stamp of 1932.

3rd row:
the first stamp is the Dante 5c commemorative stamp from 1965. Scott #1268.
the second stamp is as Battlestamps has said CSA most likely #11
the third stamp is another of the Washington-Franklins.
the fourth is a trimmed 10c of 1861, Scott #68.

Bottom row:
the first stamp is the 1 1/2 cent Harding vertical coil.(perf 10 horiz) from 1925, Scott 605
The second item is a Pitney Bowes meter stamp from 1956. Not as government issued stamp, but there are collectors for these. It appears to bear part of an AIRMAIL handstamp.
The last item is a 2c large Banknote issue on what I believe to be soft paper, (#183) with a numbered cancel typical for Boston in the early 1880s. However, other places used this type cancel, so it would have to be closely examined to be sure it's from Boston.

I really appriciated the responses and the help, so if it isn't asked to much i'm here with another batch.

I sorted about half of the stamps I got, but I selected a few i'm not sure about what they are.
I'm sorry but i'm really new to this :p

Here we go:





























I know i'm asking alot, and i'm really sorry.
But where I live theres nowhere near someone who knows something about american stamps.

A couple of websites that are great for identifying Stamps.

http://www.1847usa.com/

http://www.theswedishtiger.com/

Ok great thanks!

But I have (and I promise) a last thing I want to ask.
I found 3 stamps that in my eyes are in very good condition, can someone tell me what they are?
Because the last 2 have alot ov diffrent "versions" if i'm not mistaken.

The ship is a Revenue stamp and the other 2 are regular postage Stamps. Condition is not very good on any of the 3. Creases in the upperr right corner of the Revenue stamp and the other 2 have very poor centering, not to mention the left side of the middle stamp.

You have a united states civil war Confederate stamp depicting Jefferson Davis. I think it's a US Scott C.S.A. #11 plus you have a very early perfin on a #304 5¢ series 1902 and a scott #148 large banknote. I'll have to do a little research on the negative "10" fancy cork cancel

The one with the "chunk out of it" is a trimmed Scott #68 and the large black Andrew Jackson "BlackJack" is a Scott #73.

I think the last two are #220 and #554. I could be wrong though...

YPOC in that second group there are items that have some things in common with items in the first group. So when you ask for "help" with a group, you might first tell us in each case what you THINK you have. For example,

...the first stamp in the second row of the new group is the same as one you showed us in group one, for which I gave you the Scott number. What is it? How is the second example different from the first, what do you see?Now, that stamp has something in common with three other stamps in your new group; a 1c, a 2c and an 8c. Which stamps are these?

Oh ok sorry, I thought it would be different because it has a perfin.

I had a suspicion you were wondering about that, and its a good question. Perfins are added to finished stamps and are not part of the design of the stamp. So they have no effect on the standard catalog number assigned to a stamp.

I gave you the catalog number for the 5c Lincoln in blue, and told you its series. You can use that information to find three other stamps from the same series in your second set of examples. They all have some wording in common, and I have told you which denominations to watch out for. Can you find them and point them out to us?

What do you mean by pointing them out?
Don't really understand ur question, but:

Do you mean the 1 cent franklin, 2 cent washington shield an the 8 cent martha washington?