Zemstvos, Urzhum-Velikii Ustyug

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Urzhum

1891 Arms, with bow and arrow and duck

2 k blue 3 k green

  2 k blue
  3 k green

 

1893 Arms, duck, new type

2 k red


(Cancels, reduced sizes)

  2 k red

 

1898 Duck, larger size

2 k black and blue 2 k red

  2 k black and blue
  2 k red (1899, 3 types)

 

1905 Arms, new type with bow and arrow and duck

2 k brown With cancel 

  2 k brown

Ustsysolsk

1872 Bear coming out of the forest

  3 k black on yellow

Forgeries of this stamp exist (I suspect the above stamp to be a forgery as well). The Barefoot catalogue appears to show such a forgery on the front (source: Rossica Journal Number 118, April 1992; http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00035/12j). The cyrillic 'L' on top does not have the straight line at the left. The 'Z' of 'ZEM' is also different.

 

1872 Text, various frames

2 k black on green 2 k black on green 2 k black on green
(Note the different borders!)

Image obtained with the help of Bill Claghorn Image obtained with the help of Bill Claghorn


Reduced size

  2 k black on green
  3 k black on yellow
  3 k black on orange
  3 k black on red

 

1887 Arms, bear in a circle 

  2 k red

 

1889 Arms, bear in ellipse

2 k red 2 k red, blue and brown 2 k red, blue and brown 2 k red, green and brown 2 k red, brown and violet 2 k red, brown and violet

  2 k red
  2 k red, blue and brown (1893)
  2 k red, green and brown (1897)
  2 k red, brown and violet (2 sizes, 1900)

 

1895 Arms, new type, perforated or imperforated

5 k red, blue and brown

  5 k red, blue and brown (2 sizes)

 

1902 Arms, new type

2 k brown 2 k green 

  2 k brown
  2 k green (1915)
  5 k blue (exists imperforated)
  5 k red (1915)

Ustyuzhna

1889 Text, perforated

Image reproduced with permission from: http://www.sandafayre.com


(Reduced size)

  3 k black on orange (with lines as outer border)
  3 k black on orange (with ornaments as outer border, various types)
  3 k black on yellow (1893)
  3 k black on grey (1893)
  3 k black on green (1893)
  3 k black on lilac (1893)
  3 k black on violet (1898)

Valdai

1871 Arms, crown and mountain(?)

2 k black on violet, imperforated Image obtained thanks to Bill Claghorn Image obtained thanks to Bill Claghorn 

  2 k black on lilac (3 types, imperforated)
  2 k black on violet (larger stamp, imperforated, 1887)
  2 k black on violet (perforated, 1887)
  2 k black on olive (perforated, 1888)

Forgeries: I know that a bogus(?) imperforate value of 2 k violet (with white letters) has been forged by a forger from Hialeah Florida; large numbers of these forgeries are offered on Ebay. General remarks about these forgeries: the forger has probably used a computer scanner and printer, the details are mostly lost in most of his forgeries, the paper is modern and the size does in general not correspond to genuine stamps.

Valki

1893 Value in an ellipse

  1 k blue
  1 k lilac (1897)
  2 k blue (1897)
  5 k red

Vasil

1871 Arms in a circle

Image obtained thanks to Bill Claghorn 

  5 k (embossed)
  5 k black (1878)

Velikii Ustyug

1901 Arms 

  2 k red

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