The Stamps Of Turkey / Turkiye: On Steiner Pages.

Perfins of the Ottoman Empire.

Crescent Stamps. Empire Ottoman : Varieties.

Nice additions or side items that make your collection more interesting thanks Rod .

Thanks Floortrader.

Post Offices in the Levant : Great Britain.
Drilling down to the minutae.

Postmark. 1857 September.
Large Initial heavily serifed "C" 11mm height, 13 thin parallel bars
(reduced in 1880 to 8mm)

Missing from my collection F87 (Smyrna) and G06 (Beyrout)



12 Piastres on 2/6d

Verbiage from older Catalogues ....Paper = bleuté (Blutay)

Adjective
bleuté (feminine singular bleutée, masculine plural bleutés, feminine plural bleutées)
bluish (somewhat blue in colour/color)



40 paras on 2½d

Advanced Specialists shall note no fewer than 4 distinct types of figure "4"

Post Offices in the Levant : Great Britain.
Seek image of Sc#6 1893 (On GB Sc#111) British Levant (SG # 7, I think)

40 para on ½d QV vermilion.

Would like to do a story on it, I am never going to own it, and rather rare (Only 6000 exist)
Need an Image for my records.

Thanks

Rod,

Is this it? From an after-auction sale here.

And BTW, if that is it, it's for sale at the auctionhouse's website for 20% off (€80).

Bravo! Postmaster.
That's the fellow. Many thanks indeed.
Too heavy for my wallet, but fabulous for my records.

Looks good, the "4" is typical, and the broken "S" of Paras is there,
(hammer damaged on the first day)

March 1st 1893 is the worry, I don't know enough about usage, March 1st was the date all remaining copies were sold, as new printed stocks arrived.
Dangerous copies were made locally in Constantinople.

I am still hunting for a copy of "Stamp Collector's Fortnightly" Volume 1
that shows examples.

Thanks again, very much appreciated.

Eastern Roumelia. Mekeels Paper 1903 Page 87

ROD -Thanks for that info on Eastern Roumelia ,yesterday I purchased a collection of both real and fake stamps . I will use your info to make up my collection and hope to show you in about 2 weeks . Still working on the OX-HEADS also waiting for a collection of known forgeries to be shipped from Eastern Europe still have not written them up and shown them also .

Here are some pages I made up about 35 years ago as part of my general worldwide collection .Found these and others going thru some files .

Look forward to that Floortrader.
Eastern Roumelia still has the foggy outlook of a mist clouded lake, on a freezing morning in the Scottish Highlands.
Never seen a good presentation of this discipline.

No matter..we have plenty of time.




I am working on Inonu sets and Ay Yildiz sets, as we speak...........

I'll post the IKDAM NEWSPAPER Printing House set, in the next hour or so....

Note: The challenge with these, (this stamp design) begins with discriminating Perf 13.25 and Perf 13.5.
One has to get the guage correct to Identify Printing House.

It is a tedious routine, do a few at a time.

1923
Ay Yildiz Prints (Perf 11) and Shades etc
IKDAM Newspaper Printing House.
Steiner Basic Page 36.

Postmark : STAMBOUL (Native quarter of Constantinople)

Basic Set



Shades encountered thus far....

The Levant Journal May 2018 Page 63
Author : Otto Graf

2 part series on the Ay Yildiz, this Issue and the preceding Issue.

Cover
Any member ID Pmk? please.
Purchased 99c (free shipping)