388th Auction

1917, OX-HEAD (PTT) Issues specialized collection on 24 selfmade album pages including a mainly used set, many high values 25 pia. on piece, some blocks und multiples, 19 covers with pure PTT-Frankings, some of them registered to Germany, a collection that is difficult to assemble in such richness.

1920/69, mostly unused/mint and cancelled collection ‘Republic of Turkey’ in album with some better and complete issues Angora Government (Mi.705-708, 714-15, A721, 728H inverted and double), as well as some special items, including Mi. No. 754-766 unused (better signed or cert.), Sivas Railway (Mi. 913-934) unused. Many better stamps signed, condition from slightly flawed to flawless. 

1920/23, Turkey in Asia collection on eight album pages starting with first issues, including Mi.739, 742 mint and used, specialized with inverted and double overprints, shifted overprints and errors, plate flaws catalogued according to the book by Max Mayo

1921/55, valuable holding in stock book with many better issues, often in blocks, some varieties and specialities, containing for instance First Adana set (Mi. 754-66), Crescent issue with 500 pia. green (Mi.825) and Sivas Railway complete sets unused, Women Congress mnh, imperf sets, air mails and official issues in blocks of four, etc. A great lot

1938/53, Mi. 1029-40 and 1072-75, 50 sets in sheets and Mi. 1248 and 1348-59 in sheets of 25, all mnh

1948, Mi. 1202-16 in blocks of 25, mnh

1960/2004, Stamps in blocks, all mint never hinged, including complete sheet animals 1979, 43 souvenir sheets, very fine.

1900/24, 24 covers & cards including P.O. abroad, Cavalla, Salonique, Levant P.O., censors, registered and incoming mail, mostly different condition

1917/25, 48 parcel cards and money transfers, mainly early republic, including 1917 order from Elvechre with bisect stamp to ministery of war, good cancellations of Dardanelles, Sparta, Chorlou, Tarsus, Manisa etc., some different, mainly fine.

1875/80, KATCHAK overprints (contrebande) in black, blue and red on 74 Duloz stamps including inverted and tete-beche overprints of different types, unusual, scarce and attractive.

1925/60, Turkish Air Assosiation Collection of stamps, covers and documents including early issues, revenues, aid stamps with covers, mounted on 25 album pages, mostly fine.

1900/30, hundreds of revenues on documents mainly cancelled with all arabic ottoman cancellations.

1848/1916, 23 envelopes & cards including lost territories of Ottoman Empire, good cancellations, Pirlepe, Cerkes, Ayvalik, Hania, Camaran Jemen, Telegram receipt Jerusalem and Kerkuk, Remle, Jaffa and Bethlehem, some different.

1871/1945, Armenians in Turkey: 20 covers, postcards and documents from Ottoman Empire to Republic with armenian imprints, senders and addresses, monastery document Samsun 1908, two nice postcards armenian village and Ararat, some faults and missing or added stamps, but an interesting collection for collectors with an interest in history.

1870/1918, Postal History of Ottoman Iraq including four covers with cancellations of Kerbela, Bagdad and Nedjef Echref, on stamps Kerkuk, Remadie, Kizlar Bad, Süleymaniye, Hanekin, Hille and Mosul.

1851/1912, delightful exhibit collection with 37 covers and cards, covering the Ottoman, Italian and French Offices in Tripoli including the consular postal services, many better usages with 1851 entire letter from Livorno via Marseilles and Malta to Tripoli de Barberia, 1881 envelope from “TRIPOLI DI BARBERIA” to Livorno with Italian Levant 5c. and 10 c. (x2) tied by mute “annulo a rombi”, official envelope headed “R. CONSOLATO D´ITALIA”  and on reverse its large seal handstamp, 1893 envelope to Constantinople with French Sage adhesives with pearled cds “TRIPOLI BARBARIE 14 FEVR 93” in mixed franking with Turkey 1 pi. adhesive (opened for display), etc.; except for the occasional fault in overall very good condition. An alluring specialist assembly, neatly mounted and described on album pages

1856/1918, Postal History of Ottoman Syria (7), including prefilatelic cover Alep, Tatar post document with cancellations of Damas and Beyrouth, postcard 1890 from Aleppo via Alexandrette and Port-Said via french ship to France, censor marks of Aleppo and Damas, 

1915/57, 43 covers and cards from ottoman period to first fights, including WWI censor cards from Aleppo and Damas, parcel card cancelled Damas 5 to Bagdad overland mail, french mandate with T.E.P.528 and 614, several modern censor marks, parcel tag to USA, additional few old photos of Damas and Egypt ship at harbour, mainly fine.