Need Help Identifying These Two Stamps

I suspect Bulgaria and someone said AB should be Bulgaria but still not sure.



This one is hard to see anyway so difficult to photograph. The denomination is 50 Gt.

The top stamp might be Macedonian.

Both are Bulgaria

To me they look like:
The first is Scott #590 issued in 1947-48
The second is Scott #161 issued in 1921-23

Yes, they are both from Bulgaria.

The first stamp says "Republika Bulgaria" at the bottom in the Cyrillic alphabet.

The "4 AB" is actually Cyrillic "4 LV" and is short for 4 leva, the face value.

The second stamp says "Tsarstvo Bulgaria" (essentially Kingdom of Bulgaria) and the face value is 50st or 50 stotinki.

Thanks for the help on these. I suspected Bulgaria and thought I had looked at every Bulgarian stamp in Scott's. Guess my eye is not trained well enough yet.

The translations were particularly interesting as it was the first word on both stamps that had me stumped.

On the first stamp (blue one), I really should have seen that but on the other (yellow gold), I went to #161 as DC suggests but didn't see the exact stamp. I was looking hard for the columns on either side of the stamp.

I do see the stamp with columns and all at #188 but wrong color and this is shown to have stamping on the face that mine doesn't have.

Am I confused? Is it actually #161? Jim

Jim

I understand your confusion, as this is a little more difficult to identify.

If you look at your Scott Catalogue, you will see that next to the number "166" is a picture identifier, in this case "A22" This identifies the picture. Go back to the A22 picture and you will see that it is the same. Unfortunately the picture has two colors so it is a little harder to match with your stamp.

Hope this helps.
Michael

Thanks Michael. I am using a 2009 Scott Catalogue and I do see that the photo of the stamp is A22 but that correlates to #161 in my catalog. Are all older stamps the same number in all the recent editions of Scott's? Jim

Scott does sometimes make catalog number changes to older stamps. There is a section in every catalog where they list the changes they've made for that year.

In your case, your 50s stamp is Bulgaria #161 as Michael posted, and it remains unchanged in the 2009 through 2016 Scott catalogs.