The Turkish Post In The Holyland By F.w.pollack

http://koleksiyonodasi.com/the-turk...e-holy-land/
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Wow!
Thank you very much.
Kudos to the author, for allowing general broadcast.

The only one I my collection.

Page 23 postmark C.

Very Interesting card with Identified cancel!

Hello perf12,

It gets a bit more interesting.

The years on the Turkish and Dutch postmarks are different, 1902 and 1903.

The following remarks are reasonable assumptions.

1) it is more lightly that the Turkish postmark should be 1903. it makes more sense that the travel time of the postcard was 19 days instead of almost a year.

2) A clue in the text on the front. in general the sender writes how glad he is being in Nazareth were the Lord used to live. The nice enviroment, good food etc etc. He is a happy little bunny.

The big clue is in his first line. Translated: I am writing this on Monday morning the 11th of May. This date only took place in 1903 not 1902.

Conclusion the Turkish postmark should read 1903.

This again is interesting as the mention of the latest know date of this type of cancel is february 1903. We can reasonably assume that is at least the 11 May 1903.(unless more modern catalogues have already caught up with this date)

But nothing is for certain.

Kind regards,

Johan.

Hi johan; Could it be the difference in the Turkish calender? (p.12)
The person writing simply was using that calender? He was so happy!