Finland Russia?? 1856 - 1917 Really Hope To Get Some Information About These

The green 2 stamp appears to be a russia 1884-85 coat of arms or possibly a later derivative.

This is a relatively common stamp printed in large quantities.

The purple 5 stamp is from the same sets. Also common.

The blue 10 KON stamp is also russia, 1889 and another common.

On the red 10 pen which is probably finland other than that I am not familiar.

Good luck!

1901 Finland on the red 10 pen. Litho paper.

Correction litho print on coated paper, fairly common. Keep at it!

Finland was a part of the Russian Empire even before using Russian stamp designs. Finland used their own money for a long time (pennia and markka) but Russian money (kopecks and rubles) could be used there, too.

First of all, the top 3 stamps are Russian. For the particular issue with values only in Russian kopecks (in Cyrillic) to be the Finnish ones, there are little circles with dots in them like little bullseyes, somewhere in the design -- in the corners or alongside the frame the eagle is in). Now, Russian stamps were allowed to be used in Finland, but stamps have to have [b]identifiable/readable[b] Finnish cancels to prove that.

The bottom stamp IS Finnish, and the identifying key is that it is in Finnish currency, pennia (abbreviated PEN, also abbreviated in Cyrillic on the same stamp). High values are also in Finnish money, markka. Similar looking Russian issues are in kopecks or rubles (in Cyrillic letters).

Thank you both so much.
Got a whole lot to look into
The more I get into it the more I wanna know
Interesting...

For future reference,the stamps illustrated at this site should clarify whether you have Finnish or Russian versions of these stamps:

http://www.stamp-collecting-world.c...d_1891d.html