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Posted 06/06/2016 06:29 am

Hi,
I need help identifying this stamp.
I don't read arabic and can't tell what the bottom lettering says
Thanks

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Posted 06/06/2016 07:10 am

The one you posted is from 1892, Turkey.

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Edited by hani.1991 - 06/06/2016 07:24 am

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Posted 06/06/2016 07:36 am

The Arabic words translated to "Ottoman Empire". The bottom lettering says "vingt paras".

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Edited by hani.1991 - 06/06/2016 07:38 am

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Posted 07/15/2016 9:22 pm

I just found out that the overprint in black means "issued or printed", maybe hani.1991 can double-check if I'm right

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Posted 07/15/2016 9:34 pm

Hanni.1991, you are correct, it is a Turkish stamp. It is however from 1894 I believe, and it is a newspaper stamp.

Peter

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Posted 07/15/2016 10:07 pm

vingt is the French word for 20 , so a 20 paras stamps , They also use the piastre on the stamps, the piastre come from Venise I think but was spread by the French. French Canadian still use the word piastre , but we pronounce it piasse and we use it for all the dollars bills, 2 piasse, 20 piasse

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Edited by area66 - 07/15/2016 10:14 pm

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Posted 07/16/2016 04:29 am

Gibbons has the date as 1893. The overprint says (approximately) Matbu'a and means For Printed Material

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Edited by Bamra1 - 07/16/2016 04:30 am

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