Eastern Europe CTO Availability

Before mid 1990s or so, it was easy to find CTOs of Eastern European CTO stamps. All I see now are MNH. Anyone know if they are still available; especially Russia and Poland? Thank you.

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I think the reason you mostly see MNH when you look for sets from these countries is because topical collectors (a large portion of the market for them) often have a strong preference for mint. Also, these stamps are (mostly) common enough mint that most collectors don't feel the need to settle for cancelled to order.

But if you want Eastern European CTOs in quantity, pick up packets or general WW collections containing those countries and you'll find them.

There's masses of Polish CTO on ebay, they very rarely sell.

A high percentage of Eastern European C-T-O's are found in 2 cents mixture lots ,the prices have taken a big fall in recent years and are now found in the 200 stamps for $2.00 lots .

A lot of ebay sellers made tons of money dealing with these type of stamps over the years ,they buy in bulk and sort out this stuff and make packets to sell on ebay at one or two cents apiece in mixture lots .....FEED the BOTTOM FEEDERS.