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Help Identifying Syrie-Liban Aviation Civile

 
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Posted 05/21/2014   03:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add revicbaxter to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Struggling to find more information about this stamp. Can anyone give a bit more background? Thanks

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Posted 05/21/2014   07:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This may be found in a World version of Sanabria Airl Mail Cataloges. I'm at work currently and cannot check my cataloge!
It appears it may be a experimental, semi-offical issue!
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Posted 05/21/2014   08:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revicbaxter to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't have the Sanabria Air Mail, if you are able to look it up and confirm your thoughts I'd appreciate it. I wondered if it was a private issue from a company working Syria - Lebanon, rather than a national issue from either country. Thank you for your effort, I'd better let you get back to work!
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Edited by revicbaxter - 05/21/2014 08:10 am
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Posted 05/21/2014   08:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add barhata to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice find. I have the 1966 Sanabria catalog (always with me in .PDF format) and it is not listed under either Lebanon or Syria. It maybe a tax/revenue issue of some sort, i.e. Civil Aviation.
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Posted 05/21/2014   09:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Usually with postage stamps, they say "postage" somewhere (Postes/Poste Arianne). Seems more like a cinderella stamp to me.
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Posted 05/21/2014   10:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revicbaxter to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for looking into this, I did consider asking this question in the context of a cinderella. Either way, I find that a bit of mystery adds some appeal to this stamp. Found it tucked away in an album given to me by a friend at work.
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Posted 05/21/2014   12:39 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Timm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It appears to be some sort of private air flight label from the 1930's to the early 1940's between Syria and Lebanon.

I think "Aviation Civile" is in French. Civil aviation is anything that is related to the aviation non-military. This therefore includes civil transport of passengers and goods.

It may be associated with the Organization of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO English International Civil Aviation Organization: ICAO) is an international organization which depends on the United Nations. It is a specialized agency of the UN formed in April of 1944.

It also may be an Airport tax stamp. Perhaps you'll find in in a revenue catalogue.
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Edited by Timm - 05/21/2014 2:33 pm
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Posted 05/21/2014   2:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm sorry TIMM I'll have to disagree on the era in which it comes from.

From what I see this is Post WW I while this region was under French mandate.
Likely this is around 1925 when the Hatay Province was under French Mandate.
The style of aircraft also matches the period I'm refering too.
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Posted 05/21/2014   2:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Timm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hatay Province being in southern Turkey on the Syrian boarder probably had nothing to do with Syria-Lebanon flights or the French stationed there.

The style of airplane does match those of the late 1920's and early 1930's, but I doubt a civilian flight from Syria to Lebanon had access to the "Modern Aircraft" of the times. I still think my assessment is correct.
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Posted 05/21/2014   3:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
After WW I Hatay was a part of Grand Lebanon-Syria until 1936 when it gain a brief independence before rejoining Turkey!

If you look on the map on the stamp 3 stops are located in Hatay region!
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Posted 05/23/2014   08:02 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I will confirm it was not listed in Sanabria Catalog!
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Posted 06/19/2018   7:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add beshergh to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello....
it is revenue stamps .....
Can I ask you what is sanabria catalogue???
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Posted 06/20/2018   12:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add redwoodrandy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sanabria: The World Airmail Catalogue
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