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Lot# : 1150 Turkey
1874 (April 3): Cover from Kastamonu to Istanbul franked at 3¾ pi. rate with 1869/72 Postage 10 pa. olive grey, perf. 5-11 and 2 pi. red, perf. 13¼, in combination with Postage Due 1869/72 20 pa. and 1 pi. brown, perf. 5-11, all tied by rectangular all arabic KASTAMONU handstamps in black (Coles & Walker fig. 93). A fine and scarce cover.
Provenance: Collection Otrto Hornung, Corinphila sale 137 (May 2003), lot 1582.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1151 Turkey
1917/18: Lighthouse 10 pa. green, perf. 12½, in three Colour Trials in different shades (deep myrtle green, pale yellow-green and the central example in the chosen / issued shade), all applied to card from the Austrian State Printing Works. Fine and most unusual group.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 550 CHFLot# : 1152 Turkey
1917: Map of Dardanelles, 1 pi. value, perf. 12½, four Colour Trials on thick card from Austrian State PrintingWorks, in shades of deep blue, violet-blue, prussian blue and steel blue, all numbered at right (probably referring to the ink pigment number). Rare and most unusual.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 460 CHFLot# : 1153 Turkey
1863/1961: Collection in an album with several hundred stamps used/unused or in mint condition, incl. better single values and full sets, notworthy are surcharged stamps of the Sultan's trip abroad 1911 (various cities), Woman's alliance congress 1935, bull's head surcharges, airmails and semi official airmails, souvenir and miniature sheets, officials, postage dues, obligatory tax stamps etc., in two albums, fine.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : 3,400 CHFLot# : 1154 Turkey
1846/62: Entire letters (3) with 1846 entire from Alexandretta to the Sardinian Consul in Aleppo struck on arrival with 'Aleppo' negative seal (Coles & Walker fig 1), 1849 entire letter from same correspondence with Sardinian Consular seal on reverse and struck with fine 'Beirut' negative seal in green (Coles & Walker fig. 1) and 1862 Egyptian entire letter to Mansura with fine circular 'Posta Europea / Alessandria' in blue and rated '2' piastres in red manuscript.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1155 Turkey
Libya 1896/1900: Turkey 1892 20 pa. claret pair used on 1900 cover internally used to Misrata tied by bilingual TRIPOLI (DE BARBARIE) cds (Coles & Walker fig. 24) in black (Dec 13), also an un-sent Turkey 1 pi blue on buff postal stationery letter-card bearing a perfect strike of the same datestamp in violet (Jan 19, 1896).Starting bid : 100 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 1156 Turkey
1903/09: The range of covers/cards (7) with Ottoman usages all cancelled TRIPOLI (AFRIQUE) or TRIPOLI (D'AFRIQUE) bilingual datestamps (Coles & Walker figs 25-27), incl. 20 pa. magenta on pink stationery cards (2) to France and the Netherlands, 20 pa. red on rose stationery card to Hamburg, 1906 postcard to Rome via Malta franked by 10 pa., 1908 postcard to Paris with 5 pa. (2) and 10 pa. and two 1909 covers each franked by single 1908 20 pa. red adhesive. Strikes generally fine, a scarce group.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 150 CHF
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