The Stamps Of Turkey / Turkiye: On Steiner Pages.

1941
Air Post Stamps.
Steiner Page 16.

Hi Rod,

That's very interesting about the 2 paras Fixed Fees revenue stamp being used for Newspapers and Advertisements.

I wasn't aware of this and was used to seeing it as the low value of the 1909 Fixed Fees set (as listed by McDonald) but looking more carefully I see that McDonald says this stamp was frequently used to pay the tax on public advertisements and newspapers.

As well as the Forbin listing in your scan, Barefoot also lists this stamp as a "Newspapers and Advertisements" revenue (in his Albania and Greece revenues catalogue).

Here's a slightly earlier Newspaper and Advertisements revenue this time with a smudged overprint for the double tax that was due in Crete:



and here's a scan of the stamp in situ on the newspaper:



This is a Crete newspaper called "Heraklion" published in August 1894.

I have the complete paper and the scan shows the top right quarter of the front page.

As can be seen, the stamp was applied to the newsprint before the newspaper was printed.

I've posted this before in various places as it's one of my favourite items so I apologise if you've seen it a few times already!

Hey Nigel,
we never tire of seeing stamps, as used as they were intended,
that is a very nice article, and quite scarce.
"Show and tell" is what this forum is about.

I am surprised the newsprint has stood up so well,
modern newsprint 1930's onwards would be falling to bits.

Why the double tax for Crete?

PS: I adopted Forbin's explanation on the revenue. Not seen it on piece as yet.


Here are my examples of your stamp, with Newsprint Type, but no newspaper.
Yet to see the Brown example, or the one with filagree.

Turkish Aviation Society.
Not Listed Scott (Revenues / Cinderellas)

Not listed Pulko, using Yanstan Catalogue references.
Light Clear gum.

1961 set of 4 and unidentified 1988 Blue.

Personal Page 3.

Nigel / Members / Specialists,
I just noticed the Revenue, previous page, the stamp on the Right Hand side of the page, has a differing Tughra ?

Anyone familiar with this design? Significance? Explanation?
Thanks.

Postal Tax Stamps
Guess:
Dated Telegraphic cancelling hammer. TELEFON
Sc# RA73

re your 1988 Yet to be identified stamp, you can see it listed below under 1988:

http://web.itu.edu.tr/~afaydin/thk_pul.htm

Hi Rod,

The tughra for Sultan Mehmed V Reshad had two forms reflecting different forms of his name and titles.

I've not seen this clearly set out but this is what I've put together from bits and pieces.

The first form of tughra has his name "Reshad" at the right side. This is referred to in your Forbin illustration and description ("Rechad" in French).

The second form has the title "El Ghazi" (the warrior) instead of "Reshad".

This form and the stamps it is are too new(!) for the Forbin 1915 catalogue.

The name/title "Ghazi" was used by many early Ottoman sultans but I'm guessing it was adopted by Mehmed V Reshad after he as caliph declared jihad against the western powers in 1914.

Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you very much, immediate answers to queries, awesome.

Looks like a super link 22crows, look forward to wandering around in there.

Very knowledgeable answer Nigel. Thanks.

1943
Postal Tax Stamps.

Steiner Page 21.
Page CV : $112 / $25

Watch :
1945 5 Kurus Issue (RA82) Inscriptions, and differing papers.
RA82: "Kagit ve Basim isleri A.S. ist."
RA82a: "Guzel Sanatlar Matbaasi — Ankara."

"Shade" of the 25 kurus, may be "colour changelings"

Have at it...

Cat pages from my new ottoman revenue cat. Seems it was published in March 2010...

Nice document Nigel! How do you store that - it must be huge? Display it??

Nice document yourself, Michael. Wow.
I think I saw that Catalogue on Leonard Hartman, well in excess of $200 as I recall.

Thanks for the images.

Some bits and pieces........for interest.

The Tughra (GIF on wiki)
from our colleague Ryan



Dodgy Overprint from 1998
Stefano site now closed.

"Blind Perfs"

Hello Michael

The whole newspaper is one folded sheet printed as 4 pages (numbered in Greek style from a' to d') so even folded again into four as shown it is only 8 pages thick.

I received it folded like this and have kept it the same way in a single pocket Linder-T page.

The quarter page shown is 25.5 x 18.9 mm.

The paper seems quite robust even where it has been folded for a long time. Occasionally I open it out to give it some air and it seems to be surviving pretty well.

In true nineteenth century style the newspaper consists wholly of densely printed Greek text broken only up by occasional headings in larger fonts and some lists.

There are no illustrations and I guess that may have helped keep it intact.