Mystery In Cyrillic

Hi guys,

Trying to figure out these 3 stamps with Cyrillic writing on them.

The first looks like a Russian Seal, the inscription as I understand it reads Five Kopeks





The next two, I have no idea about.










Any direction you can give me would be fantastic.

Dave.

Well, just to get you going in the right direction, those are Russian stamps. The top one has the imperial eagle, which is a dead giveaway. You might want to take a look through this: http://www.stampmasteralbum.com/For...r/Russia.htm

It might give you some further clues.

First is Russia (pre 1917). Last two are Sowiet Union. And they have arabic inscription too (and armenian-?)- probably both are back of book - just a guess- a Sowiet republic from the Caucasian region: Azeri, Kazakh, (Armenia), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (where there are muslims)????

Thanks for the pointers... I'll keep digging.

Dave.

The last two stamps are USSR general revenues, the sailor from 1923 and the last one from 1926.

Thanks for that Nigel. Revenue stamps makes sense.

Hi Again,

Lost in Russia . Been digging though everything in Scott's that is similar to that top posted imperial eagle stamp. I call uncle. Anyone by chance have an id on that one?

Thanks,

Dave.

I don't generally collect Russia, but to give a possible answer to your question about the first "stamp", it looks to be a cut square from a postal staionery item (imprinted/embossed envelope), in which case they would not be listed in the Scott catalog. You would have to seek out a special postal stationery catalog covering that country for specific listings as to value, etc.

This is a similar Imperial Russia Postal Stationery Item of a different denomination that I pulled off an internet auction site simply to show what I mean:

OH!

Now that never occurred to me!

Thanks

Dave.

dusting off my thoroughly ancient college Russian.

First stamp, pyat kopeki five kopeks

Second stamp, gerovaya marka stamped stamp (that's literal, I think a better interpretation would be "official stamp." Followed by gerova. I think that may be Ukrainian. And then 15 kop zolotom 15 kopeks gold. And then the same thing in other languages.

Third stamp, gerovaya marka, official stamp. I can't make out the text in between. 6 kopeks.

Russian postal stamps say pochtovaya marka, postage stamp.

the middle one was discussed here --> https://goscf.com/t/11643

Thanks for all the great info.

It's nice to have people here that speak the various languages.

Dave.

Just a thought, I think one of the languages on the second stamps (there appear to be at least 5) is Georgian.
See example below.



1922 semi postal SC#SP3