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  • Lot# : 1870 Turkey

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    Catalogue# : 3/II x a KD
    Tughra Second Printing 1863/64: 2 pia. blue on thin paper showing through, in a tête-bêche block four, head to head with the control bad in red on top and base of the block, two stamps mint, two unmounted og. An attractive and fresh multiple.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,400 CHF

    Lot# : 1871 Turkey

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    Catalogue# : 11A+12A
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    1869 (June 25): Entire letter from Livorno via Marseille to Aleppo, Syria sent unpaid and struck on obverse with VIA DI / MARE in black and large "TAXE" in greenish ink with '6' decime charge in manuscript alongside; carried on French Paquebot 'Godavery' with superb circular 'LIGNE V / PAQ. FR. No. 2' datestamp (June 29) struck in blue (Salles fig. 887). Pearled 'Alexandrette / Syrie' transit cds in black (July 12) on reverse and taxed for the final leg of the journey with Turkey Postage Due 20 pa. and 1 pi. brown tied by framed 'Halep / 81' handstamps in blue-black. Opens well for display, a rare and appealing cover. Signed A. Diena. Cert. Sorani (2005).
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 800 CHF

    Lot# : 1872 Turkey

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    Catalogue# : 89
    Vilayet of Manastir 1901: 1 pi. blue in a horizontal strip of three, used on reverse of registered cover to London, tied by FLORINA bilingual datestamps in blue (Coles & Walker fig. 8) with Salonique transit and 'Registered / London' arrival in red. Opening tear at top but scarce.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1873 Turkey

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    Catalogue# : 709
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    1920: Turkish Grand National Assembly, government issue with black handstamp ovpt. 'OSMANLI POSTALARI 1336' type I in black on Ottoman notary fiscal stamp 100 kurus brown, unused without gum. A very rare stamp in unused condition, cert. Nakri (2020) Mi = € 1'600.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 480 CHF

    Lot# : 1874 Turkey

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    Catalogue# : 715, B21
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    1920: Turkish Grand National Assembly, government issue with black handstamp ovpt. 'OSMANLI POSTALARI 1336' type I in black on Ottoman religious tribunal revenue stamp 100 kurus brown (repaired) with Angora cds cancellation; in addition Airmail Tax stamp ovpt. 'Bes lira' on 15 ghrusch green & yellow in unused condition (two light brown spots). Two very rare stamps, two certs. Nakri (2020) Mi = € 6'500.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1875 Turkey

    1863/1957: Interesting Collection hundreds stamps used/unused, well written up on leaves, incl. 1863 Tugra stamps and postage due, Duloz stamps and postage due, Crescent definitives, 1914 pictorial set up to 200 pia. mint, back of the book issues such as newspaper stamp and revenue, in addition issues for Austrian and Russian PO's in the Levant; 1920/21 provisional ovpt stamps of the New Government in Ankara, 1922 new definitives of the Turkish Republic; Allied Occupation of Turkey comprising French in Cilicia, Greeks in Thrace, Romanian PO in Constantinople; Turkish Republic 1924 Peace Treaty of Lausanne mint, complete set, Star & Crescent definitives with 100 pia mint, 1926 Landscape & Atatürk definitives up to 200 pia mint, two Izmir Exposition sets, Airmail, 1935 Congress of International Women's Alliance mint, later issues; in addition 1938/39 Hatay Sandjak of Alexandretta, also obligatory tax stamps, aviation fund, Red Cross, Children welfare
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 1876 Turkey

    1865/1970ca: Collection hundreds stamps used/unused incl. Crescent &  Duloz definitives, 1920/21 provisional overprints, Airmail issues, later issues, also postage due, official stamps, Liannos stamps, and charity surtax issues.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1877 Turkey

    1865/1985: Collection several hundred stamps used/unused or in mint condition, incl. some better values, surchrged stamps. full sets incl. 1935 12th Congress of the International Women's Alliance, souvenir sheets, officials, postage dues, stamps with value added tax and some duplicats, good conditon and housed in three albums and in one stockbook.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 570 CHF

    Lot# : 1878 Turkey

    1880/1955.: Postal History selection (45) largely mail between Turkey including Ottoman P.O.'s in Iraq and Lebanon with destinations in Persia / Iran, with cover franked by 1876 20 p. violet on green pair, cover franked 1880 20 pa. black on rose pair, cover bearing 1892 5 pa. green block of four cancelled "Bagdad / Turquie" cds, 1897 cover from French P.O. in Trebizonde, with 1901 covers ex 'Bagdad' and Kerbela, 1907 cover at 1 pi. rate from Beirut via Baghdad to Teheran, 1915 cover with 1914 1 pi. used from Kerbela, 1916 cover franked by Persia 6 ch. from Hamadan to Koum showing bilingual Persian / Russian Censor cachet in black, 1943 1.50 r. stationery card from Teheran to Galata with trilingual Censor cachet in violet, condition varies but some fine and scarce covers present.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 850 CHF

    Lot# : 1879 Turkey

    1914/18: First World War selection of largely German Field Post Office covers/cards (70) from the Middle East theatre of Operations and nearly all Censored, including 1917 card with FELDPOST / MIL.MISS / DAMASKUS and similar usage on 1916/17 Feldpost cover and cards with ALEPPO cds and 1916/18 usages with CONSTANTINOPLE and SMYRNA cds's and a rare usage with MIL. MISS / MARDIN in March 1918, "A.O.K. 4" datestamps on cards, range of cards with Unit cancels, Mortar Battery cachets, Hospital and Sanitas Depot cancels, range f Feldpost numbers noted. Generally fair to very fine, a scarce group with viewing recommended.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 850 CHF
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