Is This A French Stamp From Colonies ?

I need some help with this stamp. I can't identify the country, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I would guess Turkey? And it is a revenue stamp


Peter

It looks like a revenue usage. The French inscription and Ottoman currency would suggest a French protectorate - not colony - in the former Ottoman Empire (e.g., Lebanon, Syria)

Not necesarily une connection française - in addition to the use of Turkish or Arabic, Middle Eastern stamps would customarily use French text as a lingua franca.

Side note: In French Canada, we still use the word « piastre » « as a reference to the Canadian dollar, much as English speakers say "bucks." When used colloquially in this way, the term is often pronounced and spelled "piasse" »

Vingt is 20 in French.

Can you measure the design please, in millimetres (mm) (to the half mm)

It has the same design as an 1882 Turkish Consulate stamp
McDonald #1
But is shows the 20pi as Turquoise Blue
Imperforate not listed in this value

Star and Crescent Unwatermarked

If I am reading McDonald correctly, this is the only Consulate issue
with the value expressed in the lower frame.

Perhaps a colour changeling?

I think I have cracked it,
Possibly a McDonald error, in using "Same" as identifying stamps
under the latest image (not similar to yours)

It appears "same" could relate to either of the designs

Although your image is fairly poor, it appears to match one fro my collection
that shows the ARABESQUE more clearly

So, assuming the above "same" the 20 Piastres Consulate
exists in the following

McDonald #19 1889 20 pi Consulate OLIVE BISTRE
(Still not listed as Imperforate)

Here is my 1907 Consulate in Scarlet
clearly showing the lovely Arabesque

SCF member Nigel, may wish to chip in his opinion?

Thanks all.
I've measured the stamp in mm.
Is 19mm by 23mm.

Thanks
Size as listed 19.5 x 23 mm Close enough!

As mentioned imperforate not listed, but McDonald printed 1998

Do you think it is trimmed? It seems to me too big to be trimmed.

Any possibility it's cut from an envelope of document?

I've found this stamp on wikimedia :

Turkey 1885 consular revenue, used.

Catalogue: Forbin #9, Sul. #429, McD 11a.

Very Interesting, alas beyond my knowledge.


I shouldn't think so Geoff, being a revenue.

I belong to ONEPS, I can shoot off a query to them, when I have a minute.

I'll also re visit McDonald, I am not sure if my other library addresses these.

I'll also look at McDonald 11A see what he has to offer.

Aha!
The penny dropped
Thanks for posting cristidnc

The image McDonald offers ONLY refers to the 1 stamp, with "-" Value

ALL the rest are "SAME" as the image for the value in the bottom frame

That then solves the stamps as also being Imperforate....All's good

Success from endeavor!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that seems to i.d. the stamp. Nice effort.

But what about the handstamps/cancels? Are these commercial overprints? Cancels? Plus a manuscript cancel?

Does the handstamp say "SOLVED"? I think not.