Russia - Zemstvo - Bogorodsk + Novgorod

Can anyone help me to identify this issue? I know something about it, about Zemstvos etc., but don't know details about this one (is it genuine? catalogue (CH?) number etc.).

Looks vaguely like a 5k 1871 or 1872 issue stamp of indeterminate color... but not enough of it has survived to be accurate Big horseman type I'd hazard a guess at.

Thank you. I can make a better scan, if you think that be useful.

I tried to find it out with examples available on-line, but, a very thick upper part of the "5" in the upper right corner didn't appear on the anyone. And also this color is confusing me.

I got this one in a pair with another Zemstvo stamp, but, that one seems to be more common, and on-line is usually represented as Novogorod "CH 2", and also listed as number "2" in all other catalogues.

I will upload it here, too, and I will rename the topic... maybe someone will find the useful for the comparation... although they are pretty bad scanned.

Hi filipo,

These look like cut-out illustrations to me rather than original stamps although I may be completely wrong about this.

The Bogorodsk stamp appears to be Ch 5 from 1872. According to Artuchov the colour can be any of wine, violet, brown or green rose although it looks very faded. It's given as claret-rose in Chuchin/Barefoot.

The design doesn't show the level of detail that I can see in images from the Fabergé collection.

As you say the Novgorod stamp appears to be Ch 2 but it doesn't appear to have the right spacing in "5.K." or the right shape of the letter "K". The arms look very crude to me especially the supporters.

Thanks, Nigelc. The Novgorod's is surely not a cut-out illustration, because it has a traces of the gum on back. Maybe I just have made a bad scans... I am not sure. I have used a stamp from this auction for the comparation...



and the back side on it is identical as the one on my stamp: