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Lot# 2306 - 177-180 Auction

  • Lot# : 2306 Turkey

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    1922 (Aug): 5 pi. blue, handstamped on toned 'pad' paper with octagonal design (23 x 20 mm.) reading "Posta / Besh (Five) / G (Guerche-Piastres), a fine unused example of this rare Provisional Isfila YP282.
    Note: Akpinar is a small mountainous village 40 North East of Afyon, the Turkish 6th Army Forces were gathering to attack the Greeks (August 22, and followed through the successul attack to Izmir by September 9). Stamps had run short at Field Post Offices # 46, 95 and 102; especially the 5 piastres value as Officer's mail had to be franked. A reserve Officer, one Nedjin Bey, under orders from the Chief of Staff of the 16th Infantry Division, Nihat Bey, prepared a rubber handstamp so that stamps of 5 piastres were available. Supplies from Ankara arrived in the middle of August and the stocks of the Provisional were burnt, with an estimated 200 examples having been sold.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 300 CHF