Russia ID Please

I'm not a student of Russian philately, though I've started a small collection of the early coat of arms stamps.
I can't find this one in the catalogue. Offices in Turkey?
Can anyone set me straight?



Thanks

Latvia.

Mentioned/pictured in a footnote by Scott, but no catalog numbers assigned. There should be a couple of old threads on this stamp. I believe one of them gives Michel?/SG? catalog numbers.

See back-of-the-book Latvia; in Scott, after #2N36.

You guys are the best!

Stanley Gibbons users, will find these under
Russia : North West : Western Army

https://goscf.com/t/12355

forgery made in Germany .

Talk about yer mixed messages!
Are the Latvian stamps listed in Scott's (there's a picture) and the Russia: North West: Western Army listed in Gibbons referring to the same stamp?

...and Floortrader, are the reason's you say it's a forgery the same as those listed by nigelc on the post that Rod has posted? (phew!)

1. The paper is the wrong colour (but this is also true for some of the reprints).
2. The printing's not very clear (and again this is true for some of the later reprints).
3. The white line above the value 15 is the wrong shape.
4. The little flag shape to the top left of the first letter of Russkaya is the wrong shape.
5. The last letter of Russkaya is the wrong shape.

JAMES-----I will put up a scan from my album page on this subject in 12 hrs. im running out the door this morning to replace a asphalt parking lot ....

Work taking precedence over stamp collecting?
This practice has to cease immediately!

We need BeeSee to do one of his Historical Stamp pages
on this, with maps and information

Please do a historical page on this I have a few Russia that
I am unsure if they are real or fake.

They have different pics on them but look like same paper
And are imperforate

Welcome to SCF Stamp Dazed,
Do they have OKCA on them perhaps?

The stamps featured in this thread all have the same design.

I am working on it Rod .

I have the complete set (a few sets actually). There was a recent article in the American Philatelist on these Latvia / North West Army stamps, and it turns out that they are so confusing that there is some question as to whether the fakes are real or the real are fakes!

I will have to dig it out.

Here is the article on the Latvia / West Russian Army stamps in the March 2011 edition of the American Philatelist:

http://digital.ipcprintservices.com...re=&ver=flex

Here are letters to the editor, May 2011 (scroll down):

http://digital.ipcprintservices.com...hp?id=699837

Another letter, August 2011 (scroll down):

http://digital.ipcprintservices.com...hp?id=781243

Edit: corrected second link

Here is my page ,from my forgery collection ;---

Darn I got another page of originals but can't find it now ....those above on the page are reprints above the forgeries ...will look for them .