Old Stamps From Everywhere / ID Of Any Stamps In Bunch ?

Heres my odd stamp pile for now that I have no idea on..some I recently found online such as the Victoria but didnt find it in Scotts though to get a rough idea on what to look for on them and it rough value.Heres the pics guys do you see anything in here that catches the eye?Thank you so very much for your any info you can help me out with.
Dave

You do have some nice stamps UFO. I'd suggest you go to your local library and take out some Scott's catalogues. Some of these are pretty obvious where they are from. Some a little more obscure.
I see, fifth image from the top, sixth stamp from left, the dark blue frame with the embossed head, looks to be Sardinia from 1855-63. There are a number of varieties of this one using different blues for the frame. You should try to figure out which yours is (impossible to tell from a scan on the computer) and check the current catalogue for value. Yours seems to have damage on the top, so that will effect value.

James in the age of computers you would think we could crop a stamp,post picture of it in your program,and it would search data base for match and then tell you what it is ect..like the police have for faces or finger prints ect...now wouldnt that be something!If I got books at the library James I still would know where to begin looking to find what country some stamps come come..so I post and hope somebody who perhaps specializes in a certain country will recognize and chime in and give ya a hint just like you did there and I certainly do appreciate it James!Thank you so much

I think that would totally take the fun out of studying the stamps themselves.

UFO, here is a good site that will help you with the Country identification.

http://www.iswsc.org/iswsc_ident.html

Also, at the very back of each Scott volume is also a good identifier. For country names written with the Roman alphabet, you can just look that up in the index, which is also an identifier. For those stamps where the country name is written in something else, there is an illustrated guide (just before the index/identifier, if I recall correctly). I think that illustrated identifier is especially good.

Yes I think I would certainly agree Spain..the hunt,the antiscipation,ect..all get the blood pumping!Stallzer & Phil much appreciated ! I forgot all about the id stuff in back pages

as to the image search discussion...you actually can do thatb with google...not all but some

Builderr ya have a link for that by chance,,might help me out on really tough ID stamps

The large one 3 to the left of the imperfect Sardinia is a revenue item so you won't find it in a standard catalogue.

This stood me in good stead for many years, although most of the info is now in any good catalogue






Also, saying the words out loud helps. "Soudan Francaise" for example. Say Soudan and you've named the country, Sudan, and of course, Francaise is French, so French Sudan.

There are also numerous translation programs on the net

Thanks soo very much everyone