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  • Lot# : 1411 Turkey

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    1914: 20 paras red postal stationery card used from Artwin to Aleppo, showing fine strike of the emergency engraved bilingual datestamp ARTWIN well struck in black (Ziya/Bulent fig. 1 = RR), used for a brief period when the Turkish Army liberated the city from Russian occupying Forces: the cancellation has to be used from late November 1914 until early March 1914 only, upon the Turks retreating from the city on March 14, 1915 the city was torched and it is believed this and the previous Russian cancellations were all burnt in the inferno. A great rarity of Armenian, Russian and Ottoman philately.

    Provenance: 'Cihangir' collection, Corinphila sale 124 (October 2000), lot 5942.
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold