The Stamps Of Turkey / Turkiye: On Steiner Pages.

Completed Pages previously shown with gaps.

1947
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1949
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1949
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1950
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The Galata Bridge.



21st February 1925
"good health and good weather still attend us"

"6B" possibly the apartment number at 380 Riverside drive Manhattan.

4½ Piastres Postcard Constantinople to New York.

Heres real photo couple of years later:

Hi Rod

I've just read thrpugh all 27 pages for the second time in a week, having sorted out a load of Turkish stamps in between. This is such a great thread I'm really enjoying it and thanks for sharing all this very useful information. I'm just about to go upstairs to print out the printer friendly version of this and the Steiner pages for Turkey. Without this information I'd feel a lot more hesitant!

Thanks again, Crispin

Them's mighty fine words Crispin. Thank you.
We all stand on other's shoulders.
We have to thank in turn
Amos Publications (The Scott Catalogue)
William Steiner Album Pages
SCF Stamp Forum

I just collate the above and present it pictorially.
Your journey, is exactly what I had hoped for when I began.

When one finishes the basics, as you intend, then that inspires one to go further,
seek the advice of experts like Nigel and Michael and others, one then wants specialist catalogues etc (Isfila)

It makes for a fun journey, until one reaches the limit of his/her wallet.

Thanks again Crispin.

Thank you Makanudo. Nice.

I don't understand the Postage Due strike on the Postcard
Can any of our resident experts explain, please?

I believe the foreign postcard rate was 6 piastres/grush at this time and this has a 5 piastres stamp.

It's interesting to see that the Belgrade address is written with "SHS" (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), just over two months before the country was renamed as Yugoslavia.

Cheers Nigel,
a place where a lot of stamp collectors have limited access to knowledge..Postal Rates.
I guess the impost was not paid.

I too noted the SHS, without the reference to timeline.

In the postcard header, the sender refered to the place from where he was sending the card as Carigrad, which is a political and intrinsic statement. That is a slavic name for Constantinopol, capitol of byzantine empire, before the turks came and took it..
The sender also made a mistake in the date he wrote 29.June whereas the stamp reads 30.July.

Nice point Makanudo. I had not noticed the Tsarigrad/Carigrad placename.

Unknown:

Hi Rod - thanks for posting these and the other prior sets. I'm really enjoying how you have integrated additional material into the collection and it continues to give me ideas for my own collection.

What program are you using to create your custom pages? I've been using "AlbumEasy" which works well for me and I can generate pages that match the Steiner pages.

Paul

Hi Paul,
thank you for your kind words.

I use the World's easiest Album Page creator,
"Stamp page creator"

It's fabulous for those creatively challenged as myself.

It's open source, I just wish someone would get hold of it and add some finer points like adding text, that's why I have to paste in commentary.

It is a bit finicky, but if you end up wanting to use it, give us a holler, and I'll help you around the weird bits.

Like the first thing you have to do, is set margins to around 20 to end up with a page like Steiner.
Computer nerds will dislike it intensely.

I can create a full Steiner like Page (if I know the stamp+mount size) in 3 minutes.

http://stamppagetor.sourceforge.net/