#1 Mexico revenue
#2 is a French Charity stamp/Cinderella "The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism"
#3 is a French revenue stamp.
#5 is Turkey Scott 42 I believe.
#4 is a 2.25r value, and without the overprint was a stamp that collected tax on telegrams. It is not a postal tax stamp. It is a telegram tax stamp, and thus not listed by Scott.
With the overprint, I do not have information on what the overprint is for.
Your ID is much better than mine. But, I am curious. How do you tell that it is a 2.25r value? Is it because of the color or is it written in the Arabic symbols? After looking in Scott, I realized that the color on #4 did not match the colors for RA1 - RA11.
As for no.2, Google is your friend. There is a useful page on Wikipedia about the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme - all you have to do is look it up. Additionally, these stamps have been discussed a few times in Stamporama before - try using the search facility.
I realise this advice is less useful when trying to identify stamps with hardly any familiar lettering at all, as with the other four.
Ian, before I ever ask for help here, I always believe that I've exhausted the resources I have at hand. Even then, I'm not typically looking for the full story, only a leg up to a path I can follow to further my own research.
of course, I just remembered this because I learned about LVF from SOR myself. Liz and Lee helped school me, then Bob I had even more background, naturally.
I know more about the unit than I do about its postal history. I'd love to learn more myself
David
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