Strange Cilicie (Cilicia) Overprints

welcome Bob,
thanks for the confirmation, we can put those to bed.

Nice to revisit BeeSee's lovely scans of these.

An addition to this most interesting thread

And another





There are no dealers marks on the back of either stamp.

More superb scanned images,
we have come to expect from Plateflaw.

No flaws on that scanner plate!

I've got a whole bunch of these... are they worthy?

Welcome to SCF Mrtwister
Cilicia stamps are definitely worthy of collecting! Post some images of what you have.

Finally, I managed to upload them^^
Here they are:









Of the blue ones I got four blocks of 20 and one of 16.

Mrtwister, those sheets look great. You should check the overprints for some of the varieties mentioned earlier in the thread.

I couldn't find any spectacular varieties... But I noticed that the olive green stamps have three different overprints a blue one with words in arabic on the top and the value number overprinted with '50', then a red one with the sign in the middle and the year "1919 -", of which I cannot read the other year but I guess it must be a year before 1919, because arabic goes from right to left. And then of course the black T.E.O. Cilicia overprint.
At some stamps, the overprints appear to seem a little thin or delocated but I couldn't find any other varieties.

The blue stamp was overprinted in blocks of 20. KEEP THEM IN BLOCKS. There were lettering errors where the printer didn't have enough letter "I"s and made do with "l", "f" and "t". There is also a dropped final stop and a broken "l". Positions 1 - "t" for "i", 2 - dropped stop, 10 - "f" for "i" and "l" for "i", 15 - "l" for "i", 17 broken "l", 20 - dropped stop and "f" for "i" twice.

Yeah, you're right, at first I just noticed the "t" and the two "f"s instead of the "i"s at the last stamp of every block but now I can also see the others... fantastic! thanks very much!

Sc#98 1920 70pa on 05pa 01 Pmk MERSIN

Exist : "Occupation" spelling errors,

This site showing Turkish and French stamps overprinted for Cilicia may be of some interest:

http://turquie-culture.fr/pages/his...19-1920.html

Indeed,
thanks Jill. Saved