Help With 4 Russian Stamps

Thought I was done, but these 4 are resisting being identified. Can someone with a better catalog please help. Thanks.(sorry the pictures are blurry...something is wrong with my camera)

This stamp shows the Kremlin.
Issued on November 16, 1965 for New Year 1966.

#4 shows a Militiaman and the Soviet Emblem and was issued on October 14, 1967.

#1 shows a steelworker and was issued on April 30, 1960.

I could swear I looked through those years. I usually look one year before and after just in case. I'll go back and look again. THanks

traditional symptoms of "catalogue blindness"

WW collectors suffer more than most with this phenomenon,

but spare a thought for the SG collector,
when a stamp printed say with the text 1973, is found
5 years earlier in the catalogue, as SG has put it in a "set"

You feel you want to kick the catalogue, but with
the size of SG, you know you will only break your toe.

Yikes!! I do try the year (if it's printed on the stamp), then go 1-2 years before and then after. Also look for similar stamp designs (that has worked pretty well so far). But boy does it try your patience. I've been lucky to find other peoples album pages on the net (that helped immensely when I had a set that was only described but not shown). Without knowing any Russian, words alone did nothing. So hopefully I'm almost done identifying, I'm up to the late 60's on what I had to sort. When I'm done I'll sell the dupes and move on to another country, something easy like China (ha ha).

Thanks again.

I feel your pain stampdog... I think they should have an era identifier, much like the stamp identifier that allows you to look up where a stamp is from. Just a listing of clues as to where to start finding a particular stamp in a catalog.

-Allen

Sometimes you can do that with values Allen,
for example Russia mainly had the 4 kopek rate
between 1961 and 1983, there are a few early, and later
ones but it does narrow it down.
Smaller countries even easier.

I still have not found the last 4 kopek example of stampdog
so that blows my theory out the water :)

Maybe it's a fake stamp? I couldn't find anything shaped like it, but then again my Scott catalog doesn't always have pictorial examples, so it could be there somewhere.

The last stamp with the musician and the dancers ???? there is something about it that rings a faint bell.
Try the regional costumes of the early to mid 60s.
I wish the picture were a little clearer.

Finally got camera working so hopefully here's a clearer picture of that last stamp.

The inscription reads "Kirghiz National Costumes" in Russian and, I assume Kirghiz. It does have a postage inscription, so it is a postage stamp. 4 Kopecks, 1963

Hope this helps
Dave

What a difference a good scan makes!
SG2837 (1963) T0870 04k provincial costumes [4th series] insc 1963 CV15p
provincial costume of Kirgizia

Sorry about that, sometimes machines just won't cooperate. Thanks for the info. Will delve into my catalog again tomorrow.

Pat

Well done Tony,
you must know russia fairly well for that call.