Preview of Stamps Catalogue: VOLUME 2

Zemstvos, Podolsk - Poltava

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Podolsk

1871 Arms

  5 k green (several types)
  5 k green and brown (1894)
  5 k green and black (1895)

Poltava

1903 Arms, perforated (exists imperforate)

  1 k orange
  3 k blue
  6 k lilac
  10 k red

Surcharged

  '3' on 1 k orange
  '3' on 6 k lilac
  '3' on 10 k red

According to http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00035/22j, the value '3' on 10 k red exists forged with black overprint (genuine overprints are violet). The same surcharge was also used on the next issue.

1904 Arms, new type

  1 k orange
  1 k red (1909)
  1 k green (1912)
  3 k blue
  3 k brown (1908)
  3 k green (1909)
  3 k red (1912)
  6 k lilac
  6 k blue (1912)
  10 k red
  10 k lilac (1912)
  15 k green
  30 k orange (1912)

Surcharged

  1 on 6 k lilac (diagonally overprint)
  '3' on 1 k orange
  '3' on 6 k lilac
  '3' on 10 k red
  '3' on 15 k green

Surcharged horizontally

  1 kop on 3 k blue
  1 kop on 3 k brown
  1 kop (black or red) on 3 k green
  1 kop (black or red) on 6 k lilac
  1 kop on 10 k red
  1 kop on 15 k green

(Some unlisted surcharges)

1909 Statue or Tsar Peter the Great, perforated (exists imperforate)

(Reduced sizes)
3 k blue and black
(reduced size)

  1 k orange and blue
  2 k blue and brown
  3 k blue and black
  5 k red and green
  6 k green and brown
  10 k brown and green
  15 k lilac and grey

Image obtained thank to Bill Claghorn
(Reduced size)

This set exists with various surcharges.

1912 Arms, eagle, perforated or imperforated

(Sorry, no picture available yet)

  1 k green and black
  3 k red and black
  3 k lilac and red

1912 Landscape

(Reduced size)

1912 Official stamps

  3 k orange
  3 k blue
  3 k green
  3 k brown
  3 k lilac

Exist overprinted in black with values. Although these were originally official stamps, the overprint says it is for private use. The ‘price’ has been reduced to 1 k and the 0 overprint bottom left is to obliterate the number that the official user would have had to write in.

1912 Arms, new type