Help On Identifying Stamps

Hello All,
I would appreciate some help on identifying the below stamps. I'm a newbie to stamps collecting. Thanks!

Fantasies? Made up stamps for chuckles.
Fakes? Made up stamps to deceive.
Forgeries? Doubtful because those stamps do not exist.
Welcome to the hobby.

Here are few more..

Thank Tongman65...

I just inherited 4 storage bins full of stamps and albums, binders and books.
I have no idea where to start. Please advice.

Check to see if the portrait of Washington was cut out and pasted on another stamp (upside down, obviously). This used to be a "thing" among stamp collectors. The U.S. Mother's Day stamp was sometimes "upgraded" with the vignette of a reclining Goya nude cut from a 1930 Spanish stamp.

Since you also have revenue stamps there, which are referred to as "back of the book" due to their location near the end of the catalogue listings (i.e., after the regular postage stamps), you might well have grabbed the binder that has the "back of the book" and other miscellany? That's probably where a collector would put things like that, that are otherwise not real items. Maybe not, but maybe?

How you approach this new collection depends a great deal on how much time you have, and what you know about the person from which you inherited. My suggestion would be:
1) take an hour or two and slowly go through each binder or album. Use a Post-It note on the cover to roughly identify what's inside. Use whatever labels and language you want at this point: USA, Germany, unknown, non-USA, looks old, whatever makes sense to you.
2) now, work your way into more detail. You've shown us a small variety of stamps: a few fantasy/fakes, some postage dues, and some revenue/documentary (that $2 stock transfer appears to be a Scott #RD105 perfin, by the way). You'll need a copy of one or more Scott catalogs (just check it/them out from your library), or an app like Stamp Identifier to better get a handle on what you have. Note that stamps usually retail for 10-40% of catalog value, and a dealer would buy from you for even less.
3) start thinking about what you might want to do with it all. What I've seen so far I think is in total worth less than a small Starbucks coffee, but that doesn't mean that something won't surprise you. Use it all as a basis for your own collection? Sell or give away? These stamps are decades old, a few more weeks or months won't harm them while you figure things out.

dude 32t,

Enjoy having fun with stamps! That is the name of this game.

Collecting for the enjoyment of collecting, whatever that might be, is the name of the game. Don't hesitate to ask questions especially if you need basic information and especially more advanced sources of information for any possible topic. You should be able to find folks on this board a little further along on their collecting journey glad to share experiences.

My personal bias is a used stamp loses the story of its journey in the postal service when it is removed from the cover it transported to its destination. Collecting postal history adds a whole new aspect to your journey in our hobby.

Wishing you many enjoyable future days in our hobby. Russ

Thank you everyone for helping me and sharing your advice.

Someone who had these fantastic creations may have had a sense of humor.

I'm curious about what she or he was really collecting.

Can you give us a photo of the spines of the books and another of the covers of the albums?
Do they cover the world, or specific countries? US only?

Hi jleb1979,

It seem like he cover the world. There were no specific countries. Here are few of the spines from the first bins.

Germany, USA, Russia. Looks like specific countries, to me.

You might look into visiting a local stamp club. Club members, in my experience, are happy to share their knowledge and try to point you in the right direction. Call first to be sure that you will not be interrupting an evening's presentations, auction, etc. I think you will be pleasantly surprised at how many people are happy to help. Good luck.