Lost On a Single Page

 I pulled out an old stamp album I got at an auction which is called Paragon Stamp Album and printed for S.S. Kresge Company in my hometown of all places, Racine Wisconsin in 1931!! My Grandma even worked at S.S. Kresge when I was a kid!! Anyways, I turned to the Ukraine page and found these two stamps. One original and one surcharged. My Scott catalogue has about one page of pre 1992 stamps and lists neither of these though it does give mention of the government of Ukraine in exile in Warsaw printing a 40h denomination and overprinting with the Cyrillic "UPP", purportedly created as a Field Post issue for a planned invasion of the Ukraine which never happened. The stamps were never issued. This old album has this 40h stamp imaged on the page, so I wonder if these were simply sold to stamp dealers then to raise some cash or if these really are official Ukrainian stamps and I am just showing off what a true idiot I really am when it comes to looking up stamps. Particularly stamps with Cyrillic writing.

JimmyB