The Stamps Of Turkey / Turkiye: On Steiner Pages.

mdroth - you have some nice stuff there!

I don't feel like trying to study the turkish/arabic symbols quite yet.... What a linguistic challenge, my hat of to those of you that do this. However the word '...azari' came up with the following potential matches in my excel database.



Good luck in trying to match the arabic spelling listed as well



Absolutely - I think it more than doubles the fun Which is my main reason for trying to collect as many different of those town names as possible (in a separate postmark collection)

ha, so my stamp could have been from any of those town...

Thanks Jon.

...at least until someone comes along that can make sense of the arabic script! I¨m confident someone (with more patience than me) will pin-point your town easily.
You're welcome Chris

Sorry Chris - obviously - it is East. (Been that kinda day...feels like I'm going in the wrong direction all day!) I'm a couple hours west of there - and yes - same earthquake. Adapazari & Izmit are two separate towns - close to one another - both were devastated in the earthquake.

But yes - '...azari' is a common suffix...as Blaamand's list obviously shows! And unless you can decipher the arabic, can't tell for sure.

From my rudimentary language skills, 'pazari' means 'market' in Turkish - like an open-air market of folks selling vegetables etc kind of market. So a very common word...

MDROTH -----Like your overprints nice start . I also have just a few .

Here's some more...mostly for use between this thread & the Crete one, if any apply?? I'll let smarter minds decide...

Got bored...if anyone wants close-ups of any on the whole pages, just holler!

Cool overprints Floortrader! Here's a couple more...

Hi Michael,

The 20 paras green stamp with a Greek blue overprint of "S H P" within a triangle coudl possibly be a Mount Athos local although the letter shapes don't match those in the illustration in my Michel catalogue.

These are listed in Michel under "Mönchs-Republik Athos" after the Liannos local post issues. there are no prices for used stamps in my old Michel catalogue.

Does Isfila list these? I wonder what postmarks were used if any.

My first guess would be Edirne (Adrianople) for the postmark which would suggest the overprint was added later.

Nigel,
Turkish Postmarks come in a gargantuan 10 Volume set, circa $1,000.

They do. According to the Isfila web site eight have already been published.

This page seems to show postmarked Mount Athos stamps; or at least one that someone who knows what they're looking for might be able to pencil out?

http://www.fabiovstamps.com/forum39a.html

Rod,

When you get out of the stamp-budget hole I recently put you in, Philabooks has that series for about AUD$850, and Birken's new Volume 5: The Small Tughras for AUD$26.