388th Auction

1876-1890, interesting collection of Empire issues in album, including rare 5 pa. and 25 pia. stamps, tete-beche and reverse prints, imperforated issues, colour varieties, perforations varieties, letters and fronts, postal stationerys, etc.

1876, Duloz four complete sheets in large folder, including 5 Pres,½ Pres, ¼ Pres, 1¼ Pres. (Mi.22-24, 26), most fine, few perfs apart and little different, isf. catalogue value over 2.500 Euro

1900/17 (ca.), small accumulation on covers and (official) paper sheets, incl. Tur-u sina, Armistice, Abolution of Capitulation, unissued mount Sinai values, etc.

1900/80, Collection unused including newspaper set 1909, Star and Crescent 1922/23, Red Crescent issues with perforation errors and varieties, air mails 1937, Atatürk sets 1927-1930, Specimen

1900/80, Collection used including good part Turkey in Asia, different overprint Types, bisects, newspaper sets, Star and Crescent 1922/23, Red Crescent, air mails, Atatürk sets, some occasional faults, mostly in good and fresh condition 

1914/18, WWI Collection including mint set ‘Crescent and Five pointed Star’, London printings, mainly unused and fine.

1917, OX-HEAD (PTT) Issues specialized collection on 24 selfmade album pages including a mainly used set, many high values 25 pia. on piece, some blocks und multiples, 19 covers with pure PTT-Frankings, some of them registered to Germany, a collection that is difficult to assemble in such richness.

1920/69, mostly unused/mint and cancelled collection ‘Republic of Turkey’ in album with some better and complete issues Angora Government (Mi.705-708, 714-15, A721, 728H inverted and double), as well as some special items, including Mi. No. 754-766 unused (better signed or cert.), Sivas Railway (Mi. 913-934) unused. Many better stamps signed, condition from slightly flawed to flawless. 

1920/23, Turkey in Asia collection on eight album pages starting with first issues, including Mi.739, 742 mint and used, specialized with inverted and double overprints, shifted overprints and errors, plate flaws catalogued according to the book by Max Mayo

1921/55, valuable holding in stock book with many better issues, often in blocks, some varieties and specialities, containing for instance First Adana set (Mi. 754-66), Crescent issue with 500 pia. green (Mi.825) and Sivas Railway complete sets unused, Women Congress mnh, imperf sets, air mails and official issues in blocks of four, etc. A great lot

1938/53, Mi. 1029-40 and 1072-75, 50 sets in sheets and Mi. 1248 and 1348-59 in sheets of 25, all mnh

1948, Mi. 1202-16 in blocks of 25, mnh

1960/2004, Stamps in blocks, all mint never hinged, including complete sheet animals 1979, 43 souvenir sheets, very fine.

1900/24, 24 covers & cards including P.O. abroad, Cavalla, Salonique, Levant P.O., censors, registered and incoming mail, mostly different condition

1917/25, 48 parcel cards and money transfers, mainly early republic, including 1917 order from Elvechre with bisect stamp to ministery of war, good cancellations of Dardanelles, Sparta, Chorlou, Tarsus, Manisa etc., some different, mainly fine.

1875/80, KATCHAK overprints (contrebande) in black, blue and red on 74 Duloz stamps including inverted and tete-beche overprints of different types, unusual, scarce and attractive.

1925/60, Turkish Air Assosiation Collection of stamps, covers and documents including early issues, revenues, aid stamps with covers, mounted on 25 album pages, mostly fine.

1900/30, hundreds of revenues on documents mainly cancelled with all arabic ottoman cancellations.

1848/1916, 23 envelopes & cards including lost territories of Ottoman Empire, good cancellations, Pirlepe, Cerkes, Ayvalik, Hania, Camaran Jemen, Telegram receipt Jerusalem and Kerkuk, Remle, Jaffa and Bethlehem, some different.

1974/99, seemingly complete mint never hinged collection in album including proofs ('örnek' overprints), miniature sheets and WWF issues. 

1974/99, Large stock in album, mainly mint never hinged, including blocks of four and part sheets, miniature sheets and in some cases with high quantities.

1918/47 (ca.), eclectic group including Vienna printings and Regensburg camp issues, also noted Shagiv and Tridents, some better items with Regensburg 1948 top horizontal row of the sheet unused with five se-tenant values, Vienna issue printer´s trials, 1921 Svyatoshina local provisional, etc., except for the occasional fault overall in fine condition, neatly housed in one booklet

1918/20, Ukraine Tridents, over 100 unused and used stamps, including some multiples, with a fine choice of local overprints including the Romanov issue, noted Kiev, Kharkov, Poltava, etc., small part of postmarks with usages from Olgopol, Sarnovskoe and Murafa, a few values signed, neatly housed in one booklet and expertly attributed to Bulat numbers. Except for the occasional fault in overall fine condition

1918, unused, mint never hinged and used accumulation on stockcards, partly pre-sorted and classified, slightly different condition, some signed Bulat, Seichter and UPV

1929/97, mostly mint never hinged and some unused, in the main catalogue numbers complete collection incl. parts postage due and revenue, incl. Mi.-Nos. 39-44 unused (cert. Diena), 45-50 MNH, 51-58 unused (49 and 51 with cert. Raybaudi), 72 signed Raybaudi, further airmals and a used part collection from 1929-80, in two hingeless albums

1918/64, lot with mostly mint never hinged Stamps, covers and varieties, with u.o. Mi.-Nr. 243+245-48 as sheet set, varieties with Mi.-No. 472Ul, 477U, 479U, 480U, 480Uu, 483U and 484U (all mint never hinged) and Mi.-No. 776-87 on to registered airmail First Day Covers, mostly fine

1918/85 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection, including complete, miniature and souvenir sheets like Mi.-Nr. Block 4 A and B mint never hinged, Block 5 mint never hinged (2x) and unused (1x), mixed condition in the beginning after that in mostly excellent condition, in ten albums

1894/1984 (ca.), group of over 220 covers and cards, including some forerunners with Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina, many attractive multiple frankings, some better items throughout with 1933 Day of the International Association of Writers Mi.-Nr. 249-254 complete sets on both FDC envelope and card, Express covers, etc., except for  the occasional fault in overall very good condition, neatly housed in one album

1919/29 (ca.), 30 fiscal documents franked with adhesives from the 1919 issue used as fiscals, some interesting usages and combinations throughout, interesting specialist lot

1945/47, unused/mint never hinged and used collection with five covers/cards, with u.o. Mi.-No. 32Y mint never hinged, rare Mi.-No. 48 “Epreuve de Luxe” and  horizontal pairs Mi.-No. IV/V, mostly fine

1858/1997, used, unused and mint never hinged collection, including some better issues, like Mi.-Nr. 152, 200-201, 337-41 unused, Mi.-Nr. 199-201 used, Bl. 6 mint never hinged, somewhat mixed quality

1871/1945, Armenians in Turkey: 20 covers, postcards and documents from Ottoman Empire to Republic with armenian imprints, senders and addresses, monastery document Samsun 1908, two nice postcards armenian village and Ararat, some faults and missing or added stamps, but an interesting collection for collectors with an interest in history.

1843/1990 (ca.), useded collection in 3 stockbooks, including Ml. 1-3