The Stamps Of Turkey / Turkiye: On Steiner Pages.

Thank you very much Michael,
we shall let this one pass to the keeper.

Hi Rod and Michael,

#2 appears to be the top halves of two revenues for the "Transfer and Purchases of Real Property".

Thanks Nigel! On the money, as always.

I grabbed onto the first word I saw - which was the year/series before - which was 'overprinted proportional fee' stamps - but missed the 'Transfer of Real Property' description. But we're talking about the same stamps. Can't see the bottom halves of the ones in Rod's picture - but from the color, they are the low values from the series. 4 euros each. High value in the series goes up to 70 euros, but they are black, not blue.

An item you won't see very often:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Turkey-Sta...p=true&rt=nc

Scott has a note - saying 'unoverprinted' sets were distributed to government officials. Isfila lists them - noting a total quantity of 500 sets - at app $275 each in mint condition. No values listed for used.

Haven't seen these enough to know if they are legit - (didn't seem to bother the bidders!!) - the imperf one really made me stop & think...

Hi Michael,
not seen before.

Thanks for showing us.

A good laugh for a Monday. Excellent example of why you have to been extremely skeptical whenever you see these 'imprime' overprints for sale!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1629847802...l_noapp=true

Looks like someone went wild with a stamp!!!!

Cover : Turkey to Australia 1914. $78 AUD
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3722821...l_noapp=true



History
http://www.auspostalhistory.com/MOB...les/2124.php

I mentioned to Michael that, having sold my Turkey collection and others for disappointingly few piasters, I'd blown some of the proceeds on a collection of Syria, which has proved to be smallish, but eccentric. Amongst the items are a number of "Ottoman (and others) used in Asia" cards and pieces, viz.:

Postal stationery sent from Aleppo (dated 9/5/1889) via Constantinople (17 May 1889) to Nuremberg (two different cancels of 21 May 1889):




Postal stationery sent from Aleppo (26/2/1901) via Constantinople (5/3/1901) to Dresden (15/3/1901):




Postal stationery sent from Aleppo (10/10/1907) to Berlin (23/10/1907):




Part-cover from Daraa (26/9/1915 - pmk identified by the previous owner):




Two German field post postcards sent from: (a) Aleppo (19/7/1916) to Annaburg; and (b) Aleppo (4/10/1916) to Frankfurt:






Other Syrian material to follow under Rod's Syria thread.

Interesting stationaries, GeoffHa

Beautiful stuff Geoff........
Nice to learn the condensed CONS-PLE Pmk
That had confused me before.

It defies me why, apparently educated fellows, sell their collections, again for not a great deal, only to rue it later.
We see it all the time.

What possess you in these mad moments?

I have a reasonable collection, which I reckon I could get a few thousand dollars for, but for the energy consumed in the collecting exercise? You would have to cut off my leg.

What happens after the pine chipboard box, makes no never mind.

GeoffHa,

Here's a little info on the last Feldpost card shown above.

The sender is Gefreiter (Corporal) Werner Weffer, Radio Damascus, Navy Post Office, Berlin.

The recipient is Wilhelm (Willie) Weffer, Augustusstraße 27 in the Heddernheim district of Frankfurt. The actual address is this one:


I can't make out the entire text due to the handwriting, but I believe it translates roughly as follows:

Postmaster - thank you! What exactly was Radio Damascus -a military wireless installation within Syria?

Rod - I'm not lamenting the loss of Turkey yet! I enjoyed putting it together, but it wasn't one of those areas in which I felt a particular intellectual or emotional interest. Syria, for example, is different for me because of my interest in Faisal and the Arabg Revolt and the calamitously wrong turn taken by Britain at the end of the Great War. Scandinavia and Italy are going next.

GeoffHa,

I'm not sure about Radio Damascus. I'm assuming it was a German radio station run by the military. I have some WWI Feldpost references at home, so I'll see what I can find when I get home tonight.

I haven't been able to find any additional info on Radio Damasküs. I did find a catalog listing for that cancel, though. It's listed in Stempelhandbuch der Deutschen Feldpost im Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-1918 (Cancel Handbook of German Feldpost in WWI 1914-1918) as MM3.



The handbook lists 46 cancels from the Turkish Military Mission, so of you need any more excerpts, just let me know.