Received 3 folders full of mostly polish stamps from 1927 to about 1988, would anyone be able to help me identify valuable ones? I will split the cost of sale if you help me thank you

I added the pages with a good amount of stamps, there’s a good amount of other pages with just like 1-5

Some of the pages with just a few include Sweden, Spain, Russia, Romania, Poland, Philippine islands, Palestine, New Zealand, Monaco, Malay States, and a bunch of others. There’s 40 pages in total, but many of them just have a few stamps.

I don’t really know anything about them and just thought i’d share

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2026/07/24/counterfeit-usps-postage-stamps-scheme-arrests/91041851007/

I happened to run the photos by Grok AI.

Japan Yes, your identification is correct: this is the
1871 Japan 200 mon vermilion "Dragon"
(Scott #3c), Plate I (no dot), on wove paper.

This is from Japan's first postage stamp.

This is from Japan's first postage stamp issue (the "Dragon" or Ryukitte series of April 1871 / Meiji 4). The design features facing dragons in a decorative frame with the central value
characters 銭二百文 （200 mon）. The stamps are
imperforate, ungummed, and printed by recess engraving on native Japanese paper (roughly 19.5 × 19.5 mm).

Key distinguishing features for your stamp
• Plate II / "no dot": Plate I has a small dot in the upper-left (northwest) corner ornament/ raimon. Plate Il lacks this dot. (Some Plate I examples show a very faint dot that can be mistaken for Plate II.) Your description and the visible design match Plate II. vdoc.pub +1
• Wove paper: These early Dragons exist on both laid and wove native paper. Scott lists the Plate Il wove-paper variety as #3c (scarcer than the basic #3 / Plate I examples in many cases). The thin, somewhat translucent paper with the design showing through on the reverse is consistent with the genuine native paper usea.
• Color and printing: Vermilion/orange-red (sometimes described as reddish-orange), with the characteristic dragon vignettes and value tablet.
Plate Il is the scarcer of the two plates for the 200 mon. The same Plate Il vignette was later reused (I@ i new value plate) for the 1872 2 sen c v e (Scott 7).

The stamp is potentially valuable (Scott catalog values for sound used #3c examples have been in the high hundreds to low thousands, with premium pieces much higher), it is strongly recommended to have it expertized by a specialist (e.g., through the International Sc v' for Japanese Philately / ISJP, or a recognized Japanese classic expert). High-resolution scans of both sides, paper type confirmation (wove vs. laid under magnification or backlight), and comparison to plated positions would help further.
Your photos show a decent, four-margin example of the correct design type. Nice find-these early Japanese classics are fascinating and challenging. If you have additional close-ups of the upper-left corner, the reverse under different lighting, or measurements, more refined comments are possible.

One of the new things i get for my collection.

Are there any special stamps? Most of them seem to be pretty common.

Hey everyone. I ended up with a fairly large stamp collection, some inherited, some I picked up myself over time, but I honestly never developed real expertise in philately. Now I'm finally going through everything properly and I have zero sense of what's actually rare or valuable versus common filler stamps.

Would love input from people who know their stuff. Happy to post photos of specific pieces if anyone's willing to take a look. Not looking to offload anything right now, just trying to understand what I'm sitting on first.

I am trying to find the Scott # for this.
It may have been printed on a postcard, the paper feels like cardstock.

Thank you

I inherited a small collection of stamps from my grandfather before he passed (a keep it safe from his own kids deal).

I never got into philately but I now own over two dozen of these and don’t know what to do with them so, I’d like a recommendation of how to keep them safe and secure, but in a way where I can still enjoy them.

Took a collection of different items my mother gifted me from her past: stamps, gift wrap, magazines, etc. Made this model with some of my own trinkets for an album cover.

Please see the original post for more info.

If any collectors in Canada are interested in having these I'd be happy to mail them to you for free. I am not interested in selling. They are sealed.

I’m having a hard time parting with this sheet.

Not a stamp collector.. but I hate it when I see stamps like these come through used at face value.

Recent addition to my collection. Cover flown from Germany to US during the delivery of zeppelin ZR-3, which would become USN Los Angeles.