Zemstvos, Shatsk - Spassk

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Shatsk

1871 Arms (with beehive), imperforated

  3 k black (2 types, with and without wavy line under '3k')
  5 k black

1884 Text

  3 k black (many types)

Two different types, both in tete-beche.

1888 Arms, new type

  3 k black on lilac
  3 k black on grey (smaller size)
  3 k black on lilac (text curved in upper part, 2 types, 1889)
  3 k black on green (1895)
  3 k black on grey (more text, 1910)
  3 k black on lilac (more text)

1889 Arms, new type, perforated or imperforated

  3 k red
  3 k black on red
  3 k black on lilac

Exists with '1889' instead of value:

With '18 89' in the upper corners

1916 Arms, new type

(Sorry, no picture available yet)

  3 k black on red

Shchigry

1882 Arms, imperforated

  3 k red, yellow, blue, green and black

Shlisselburg

1865 Value in ellipse with cross

  5 k black on green

Simbirsk

I've been told that the following stamp is a fiscal stamp (carriage riding stamp?):

10 different values seem to exist from 1 k to 10 R (I have seen the 10 R as a red manuscript surcharge on a 1 R black, green and blue)

Simferopol

No postage stamps were issued for this town, however, some fiscal stamps exist. They have a double headed eagle in a square. The value is 10 k black on lilac (3 slightly different types) and they were issued in 1879.

Skopin

1871 Arms

  3 k blue (imperforated)
  3 k blue (perforated, 1878)
  3 k green (slightly different design)

1888 Value and arms

(3 k green, different types)

  3 k green (perforated or imperforated, more types)
  5 k brown (more types)
  5 k red

Smolensk

1894 Text surrounded by ornaments, value in the corners

  5 k black and blue
  5 k black and red

Smjeinogorsk

Some stamps are supposed to have been issued in 1917, I have never seen them.

Solikamsk

1887 Arms, imperforated

  2 k black on red

1887 Arms, water source, perforated

  2 k lilac
  2 k violet

1890 Arms, water source and bear, perforated or imperforated

  1 k blue on blue (1891)
  2 k red on blue

A slightly different type of the 1 k value

1891 Arms, larger type

  4 k red
  4 k green (1893)

1892 Arms, new type

(Reduced size)

  2 k orange
  2 k blue
  4 k brown

1895 Arms, new type with value in the middle at the bottom

(reduced sizes)

  2 k blue (perforated or imperforated)
  4 k violet (perforated or imperforated)
  4 k black on red (perforated or imperforated)
  5 k lilac (perforated or imperforated)

1906 Arms, new type, perforated or imperforated

  10 k green
  25 k orange and green
  50 k red and blue

Soroki

1878 Arms, perforated

  3 k black, yellow, red and blue
  3 k red, lilac, yellow and green (1880)
  3 k red, lilac, yellow and blue (1883)
  3 k red, grey, green and blue (1883)

1885 Arms, new type, perforated or imperforate

  3 k black, brown, red and blue
  3 k brown, yellow, red and blue (1892)
  3 k blue and brown (1898)

Spassk

1883 Arms, imperforate or perforated

  3 k black (various types)

1893 Postage due stamps 'DOPLATI' (in Russian letters) added in bottom of design

  3 k black (various types)

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