French Levant - Offices In Turkey Perfins

Here is a scan of a few of my French-Offices in Turkey Levant Perfin collection.

I have left 3 of them on paper, as the postmark is nice and clear (and the perfin pattern isn't!).

None of the stamps are of much value, but with a perfin, the value does increase a bit. The larger stamp at the bottom is perhaps a #32,
which if that is the case, is worth a bit. I do not see this stamp mentioned other than once in the Scotts catalog levant listing. The leaves look like they are colored lavender, the rest of the stamp is bistre- brown. You call it.

Perfins represented are: C.L., CL, and BIO

Anyway, here is small collection of Levants. Enjoy.

The horizontal stamp at the bottom is Scott #35, 2 piastres on 50 centimes.

Thanks for clarifing that. I must learn to read better. Ha!

All bank Perfins.

CL and varieties are the Credit Lyonnaise
BIO = Imperial Ottoman Bank

Thanks rod222.

Wow!
That's neat PoStat, 5 years between posts...............

See a more recent indepth discussion on Credit Lyonnaise here

https://goscf.com/t/8558

To put my two cents - or para and piaster - in as well ...

Here are two issues of the Austrian Crédit Lyonnais perfin with an identical perforation used from 1891 to 1914 in Constantinople / Istanbul. @CL-10 in the Austrian perfin catalog.