Four more (stamp ID’s?)
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Top left is Ukraine. But not the present post USSR Ukraine but, I think the Ukraine that very briefly existed in 1919 - 1920. I would recommend getting an expert to have a look at it. Might be worth something if it is.
The black stamp on bottom left is pre WWII Kingdom of Bulgaria.
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Awesome, thank you. These stamps belonged to Steve’s uncle , most are from the early 1900’s. I’ve gone down a major rabbit hole working on an art project that started with my moms collection, and then I dove into the rest of the boxes trying to find a specific stamp - which resulted in my OCD taking over and getting them all organized into proper glassine envelopes together… (a lot of them were in old yellowing wax paper sandwich bags,) there are a few more that I can’t figure out. I think stamp collecting is one of those things that nobody does any more. Most all of them I’ve looked up so far you can get for between 25 cents and a few dollars online. And they all get listed as “rare”by someone on eBay for $5,000. And those are the photos that show up first.
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Did a bit more digging. Yes that is an early unissued Ukrainian stamp from 1920. The picture is of Simon Petliura an early military/political leader of the short lived independent Ukraine who went into exile in Paris and was assassinated by an alleged Soviet operative in 1926.
https://www.stamp-collecting-world.com/ukrainestamps_1918p.html
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