385th Auction

1886/1931 (ca.), interesting lot with 34 cards and covers, all sent to or received from Constantinople, incl. some early ottoman stationery cards, also some Levant with Austrian censorship marks, etc.

1898/1980 (approx.), over 100 covers and cards with lots of interesting material, including early airmail, good frankings such as women's congress on various covers, etc.

1914/60 (ca.) interesting group with 14 cards and covers, with many interesting, e.g. British Occ. in Iraq Mi. 3 (9) on registered cover to constantinople, Turkey Mi. 233 with upper margin on registered cover, three complete wrappers with newspapers, etc.

1919/1939, group of five covers, comprising two 1919 overprinted Cilicia frankings, uprating postal stationery covers, cancelled-to-order at Adana, 1938 Sandjak / d'Alexandrette overprinted Air Post set of eight from Antioch to New York, and two 1939 Hatay and Sandjak / Alexandrette franked covers from Kessab, fine.

1924/34, collection of fourteen flight covers, with both domestic flights as well as examples to the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Greece, note myriad frankings, registered mail, handstamped cachets, etc, some with filing folds or small faults, an overall fresh and fine group.

1927-32, Turkish Aviation Society, group of over sixty stamps in singles, pairs, and blocks of four, with errors and varieties including imperforate between pairs and blocks, noting sets including 1930 Surcharges as singles, with some multiples (Mi. 15/20, Isf T15/21), 1933 set in unmounted blocks of four (Mi 24/6), 1933 unmounted set of singles (Mi 27/29), etc, an interesting group, mostly fine.

1923/58, Turkish Society for the Protection of Children, a near-complete collection, over 125 singles plus blocks and souvenir sheets, with all major sets unmounted mint, including 1942 and 1948 sets in blocks of four, some faults in places, a valuable assembly, overall quite fresh and fine.

1923/52, Turkish Red Crescent, collection of mostly unmounted stamps, comprising approximately 80 singles and 15 blocks, including 1944/45 and 1946 sets in unmounted blocks of four, 1952 imperforate miniature sheet, etc, some small flaws, else a fine and high-cataloguing group.

ALEXANDRETTE AND HATAY: 1938/39, complete unmounted mint collections, including postage due