Turkish Box Cancellations

seeing if there's any information available
I'm thinking there maybe a fake stamp or two

Hi Just fella,

I can't help with fake stamps but there's some cancellation information here:

https://www.stampcircuit.com/Philat...-361?page=23

Thanks Bobby!
That will also help with a couple other cancellations

I'm thinking this one is a fake/forgery
The star is off and that circular blob

These look like possible fake/forgery or over-inked?

The 20 para looks good to me, here are mine.

This was suspect because the star and blob

Hi Just_fella,

The first cancellation in your first post appears to be from Kastamouni/Kastamonu.

Thanks nigelc
what a beautiful place!

1870-71perf 5-11 and compound?

Look in the threads_____
https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...PIC_ID=54283

That's not the 1869 (c) surcharge?


Nope......found it on the link

Just_Fella, yes that is the pin perf issue. They're not considered compound perfs because the distance between holes depended on how fast the operator fed the paper through the machine. So you could get anywhere from around perf 5 to perf 11 on any side, and sometimes varied perfs on a single side. As you can see with yours, clerks gave up and cut them from the sheet with scissors because the perforations were so poor.

The printing on your 20 para example is just some of the typical poor printing seen on many of these, I believe there was a spot of oil on the plate, or perhaps a bit of paper that gave the dot...

Thank you billsey!
I'm Slowly learning (I mentioned compound because it was also mentioned in the listing in 1965 Scott) old but helps sometimes
thanks everyone for putting up with my many questions and helping me along
I can't thank you enough the explanations are great

Thanks Billsey, was never aware of that, assuming pin perfs were a set guage.

Ditto, Billsey. Thanks for the thorough explanation.

Have been collecting for many years. And always assumed there was standard gauge (sizing)
for pin perforations.

Once again the Forum has proven to be a valuable info source.

The pin perfs were created with something that acted like a sewing machine, moving the needle up and down as you fed the paper through it. Those machines were cheaper than the normal perforation machines, and didn't require going to a foreign vendor to have them perforated. After a while using them they found there were enough complaints that they went back to normal perforations within a few years.