386th Auction

1952, "Nurse & Child" 1 krs. on 3 krs. olive brown red, inverted overprint on large block of 40, margin on three sides, mint never hinged, very fine. Very attractive block for an advanced red cross collection!

1955, Nurse and child, three high values of issue for the Red Crescent, mint never hinged, all in luxury condition, very fresh colours

1962, ‘FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’ souvenir sheet with overprint ‘1 TL.’, mint never hinged, Michel unrecorded, very fine and scarce

1916, 1 pia. registered postal stationery envelope, large type, used uprated performing 13½ pia. rate tied by GALATA 20-30/7/16 c.d.s., boxed all arabic censor Galata and violet censor mark Zemun to Leipzig with arrival mark 8/8/16 on reverse, fine and scarce

1917, 20 Para red postal stationery card, scarce essay with imprint "T9" on right bottom, very scarce, only few recorded

“VAN ”, all Arabic blue postmark (Coles-Walker No.3, AP No.1, RR) clear cancelled on large part envelope with pair 5 pia. blue 13 ¼ perf. and postage due 1868 2 pia. brown rough perf, arrival mark Dersaadet (Istanbul), part of envelope at right and left shortened, some crease and few spots, otherwise fine and scarce 16 pia. rate, certificate TOPS

1848, Turkish Steamship Company Entire letter written in Bursa / Brousse shipped from Mudania to Constantinople struck with oval negative seal handstamp with central P.P. (Posta Pagata) in black. The first handstamp introduced by any Turkish Steamship company. Cover with filing folds and tiny toned, otherwise fine. An exceptional strike of a very scarce marking

1861, Constantinople to Brousse folded envelope with content, bearing superb oval straight line ‘Franco’ in blue with manuscript “PP” in red alongside, usual file fold, otherwise fine & scarce

Provenienz:  C. Arsman Collection (D.Feldman 2012)

1889, Bagdad provisional issue 1 piaster on 2 piaster bisect diagonally on envelope, tied by "BAGHDAD TURQUIE" c.d.s. with arrival mark "KERBELA 15/NOV/89" on reverse, shortened at left and tiny toned, otherwise fine. In PROFI archive earliest recorded usage of the Bagdad provisional, very scarce

1890, Bagdad provisional issue 1 piaster on 2 piaster bisect diagonally tied with clear "POSTAHANE-I HANEKIN 95" to piece, fine

1892, Baghdad provisional issue 1 pia. on 2 pia. yellow bisect diagonally tied by clear "POSTAHANE-I BAGDAD" to cover, addressed to ERBIL with boxed arrival mark (Brand-Ceylan no.IX-52) alongside, few tiny spots, otherwise fine, a very attractive and scarce Iraq and Turkey local forerunner

1892, Baghdad provisional issue 1 pia. on 2 pia. yellow-olive on yellow diagonally bisected tied by all arabic negative mark “POSTAHANE-I BAGDAD” to cover, arrival mark “POSTAHANE-I HANEKIN 95” (Coles-Walker no.19) on front, vertical fold, shortened at right and cut on flap, otherwise fine, a very scarce Local issue

1938, air mail issue 1 p. and 3 p. on cover together with six stamps performing 10 pia. rate, all tied by ALEXANDRETTE 15.4.38 c.d.s. to USA with transit BEYROUTH 16.5.38 c.d.s. fine and scarce

1938, Air mail set ½ p. to 25 p. complete 8 values, mint never hinged

1938, Air Mail set of eight values, complete mint never hinged, very fine (Scott C1-C8)

1938, Air Mail issue complete set of eight on Tripoli Marseille flight cover, cancelled ANTIOCHE 9.5.38 c.d.s. to USA with transit TRIPOLI LIBAN 11.5.38 c.d.s. fine and very scarce (Scott C1-C8)

1938, Atatürk mourning set complete 5 values, mint never hinged

1919, E.E.F. 9 pia. olive yellow on late used ottoman parcel card tied by ADANA 3 - 3/10/1335 (1919) c.d.s. addressed to Istanbul with arrival mark on reverse, usual cut through the stamp, fine

1920, Turkey local issue with overprint ‘FEKE’, 2 piastres brown/blue in mint never hinged block of four, this issue was almost completely used up, mint units are very rare

1851, FILIBE with crescent (Postahane-i Filibe 1278) (Coles-Walker no.17,Plovdiv, RRR) very clear cancellation on prefilatelic folded envelope to Constantinopoli, at upper left notation of weight 3 dirhem / postal charge 6 piastre in manuscript for registration fee. Blue all arabic ‘registered’ alongside, usual file fold, otherwise fine. PROFI has not recorded any further registered mail from Plovdiv with this cancellation 

1851, FILIBE (An Canib Posta-i Filibe 256) (Coles-Walker no.16, Plovdiv, RRR) on prefilatelic folded envelope ottoman post with a very clear cancellation to Constantinopoli, usual file fold, otherwise fine

1904, HOS EL ZERANE (Isfila no.1, R, Haouch ez Zaraané) all arabic cancellation on both sides of postcard showing Baalbek with full message to France with arrival mark, border toned, tiny spots and crease, oherwise fine. Very scarce Turkey postal history!

1871, "SHAM 81" handstamp in black (Coles & Walker no. 31, Damascus) framed all arabic cancellation on folded envelope with content, bearing Duloz 2 pi. orange-red, diagonally bisected, cut to shape, addressed to Beirut, usual file fold and tiny toned, otherwise fine. A scarce Syria forerunner

1896, "DEYR TELGRAF VE POSTAHANE-I" (Coles-Walker no.119, Deir ez-Zor) all arabic light violet cancellation on cover with two 1 Pia grey blue, transit mark Constantinople and on reverse arrival mark London 9/3/96, few border crease, otherwise fine, scarce Turkey postal history

1912, "HOMS 1" (Coles-Walker no. 73) clear bilingual octagonal d.s. on Protestant College cover from Homs to Ohio/USA bearing Turkey 1909 issue pair 20 para, on reverse Ohio arrival c.d.s., small spot, otherwise fine and scarce Syria postal history

1894, "HODEIDA" clear blue all arabic on cover back only. Coat of Arms 2 piaster 1892 issue used bisect diagonally and blue "HUDEIDA 7 MART 310" c.d.s. alongside, black arrival mark Istanbul five weeks later "MAKRIKEUY 13 NISAN 310" cds., european date "93" adjustment wrong as often, arabic date 1894 is correct, very scarce and attractive Turkey forerunner!

1905,  "SANAA" bilingual c.d.s. (Coles-Walker no.80) and boxed registration mark alongside on registered envelope bearing 1905 issue 3 x 1 pia. blue sent to Constantinople, on reverse Istanbul arrival postmark, repaired and some crease, otherwise fine, registered mail from Yemen is very rare!

1911, "HODEIDA 5" c.d.s. clear blue (Isfila no.13, scarce colour) on commercial cover with imprint bearing 1 Pia. blue block of four, transit mark PORT TAUFIQ and arrival mark BEYROUTH alongside, shortened at left, extremely rare and attractive 4 Piaster rate for a heavy letter from Yemen to Lebanon!

1951, 800 years Decretum Gratiani, complete set mint never hinged

1919, Bosnia ‘.2.’ overprinted issue, set of three values, mint hinged, signed, fine (Yvert 108-109)

1919, Issue for Bosnia, complete three values good margins unused, very fine

1919, 1 kr. proof in original colour, on grey ungummed ordinary paper, certificate Zrinjscak BPP

1919, 3 kr. light brown violet, proof in original colour, on brownish grey, rough, ungummed ordinary paper, certificate Zrinjscak BPP

1919, 5 kr. brown on white proof original colour, ungummed, cardboard paper, certificate Zrinjscak BPP

1919, 2 f. newspaper stamp, proof from III. plate in yellow-orange, double printing on thick, white, ungummed ordinary paper, unknown on this type of paper, certificate Zrinjscak BPP

1945, Overprint Demokratska * Federativa Jugoslavija 60 kn. on Croatia 3,50 kuna brown carmine on pelure (thin) paper, very fine used, 1984 Velimir Ercegovic and 1987 Predrag Zrinjscak certificates. A rare stamp of which only 100 were issued