1868: Dulos 20 pa. green, horizontal pair used on 1870 cover to Venice endorsed 'Col Vapore' tied by circular all arabic SCUTARI handstamp in black (Coles & Walker fig. 3). Transit datestamp of Austrian Post Office ANTIVARI in black (2/11) on obverse, thence via Trieste to Venice. Taxed on arrival with 1870 Italy Postage Due 10 c. and 60 c. tied by Venezia datestamp (Nov 9). Addressee's name erased by a rare 'triple' combination usage. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 1966
Symbol: Cat No: IIA
Liannos City Post 1865: 20 pa. black on green, perf. 14, a single example used on 1866 entire letter locally mailed to Galata, Cosp., tied by dotted lozenge in black with bilingual oval "PERA" despatch at right (Feb 22) and reverse with "GALATA" arrival of the same day with "BACHTCHE CAPUSSI" handstamp over flap; overall soiling but somewhat surprisingly, a rare local usage.rnProvenance: Collection Verschoyle, RL, Basel, 21 March 1980, lot 2317. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 1967
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Liannos City Post 1865: 20 pa. black on green, perf. 14, a single example used on 1866 entire letter to Vienna, Austria tied by "POSTE LOCALE / CONSTANTINOPLE" cds (Aug 5j) with repeated strike below in black. Thence via Austrian P.O. with "CONSTANTINOPEL" cds (Aug 17g) in black. Oval bilingual "GALATA" City Post datestamp on reverse with Vienna arrival cds in red (Aug 22) displaying well on flap, charged '25' (kreuzer) due to pay in manuscript. A fine and rare entire. Signed Jamet, Schlesinger. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 1978
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Gallipoli Campaign 1914: Turkey 2 pa. brown postal stationery newspaper wrapper, front and part back, cancelled by bilingual "Anatoli-Kavak" cds in black (Nov 5) with Arms Corps Telegraph marking alongside and superb strike of "SAHRA POSTASI / 5" Field Post Office datestamp at left (Nov 7) of arrival, based on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 1993
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Gallipoli Campaign 1915: 20 pa. red postal stationery envelope used to Constantinople, cancelled by bold strike of "SAHRA POSTASI / 21" Field Post Office datestamp in black (April 21) of the 111th. Army Corps, with Remzi Bey's 7th Division. Negative seal at left in black "Gallipoli Military Hospital, Chief Medical Officer". Constantinople arrival (April 15) on reverse. Small piece of envelope missing at left buit rare. Signed Nakri. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 2014
Symbol: Cat No: 235
Turkish POW Mail 1914: 1 pi. blue, two examples, used on registered 1915 cover from Kutahya to a Turkish POW held on Lemnos cancelled on despatch (Nov 6) and also tied by framed "CENSORED" handstamp in red applied by British forces at Mudros. reverse with Stamboul transit cds (Nov 8), Turkish red wafer seal applied with Turksih Censors (on obverse) and Piraeus cds's and "Kastron-Mudros" Greek arrival cds's of Lemnos. A rare example of a registered usage that would benefit from being opened for display. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 2017
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British POW Mail 1916 (June 11): British Red Cross Society POW card with handstamped "FOR P.W. TURKEY ONLY" at top, with circular "Postage Free" cachet below, written from Nuneaton to Changri Camp (No. 24) by 2nd. Lt. W.W.A. Phillips of the 24th Punjabis, "Prisoner of War - Kut Garrison" with framed Turkish Censor cachet also on front; together with a card from Changri Camp to the sender of the above card, with Censor on reverse and Nuneaton arrival (Feb 17, 1918). Scarce pair. (Image 1)(Image)
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Lot No: 2018
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British POW Mail 1917 (April 22): Red Cross "Croissant Rouge Ottoman" POW postcard from Capt. E.N.C. Sandes at POW camp 20 in Yozgad, Anatolia to England thanking the recipient for her letter of Feb 23 congratulating him on the award of the Military Cross; struck with Yozgad seal handstamp in black over-struck by Istanbul Censor No. 2 handstamp in black with manuscript docketing of receipt (July 7). Capt. Sandes (later Major) was the author of "In Kut and Captivity" (1919). (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 2019
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British POW Mail 1917 (Nov 5): Red Cross "Croissant Rouge Ottoman" grey POW postcard from Kêdos Camp to the Ambassador of Holland in Constantinople, struck on front with "Bern Transit / + / Kriegsgelangenenpost" cachet in violet (Jan 31, 1918) and struck on front by "Legation de Pays-Bas / Service des Prissoniers de Guerre" in red (March 12). Message on reverse reads "I have the honour to inform you that Lt. EG. Staples, Lt. T.M. Jenkins Lt., Sir J.W.L. Napier, all of the South Wales Borderers have been here since June 7 and have no clothing, bedding nor toilet requisites.." and signed by Jenkins. All three survived incarceration - just 77 Officers plus orderlies were held in the Camp. Turkish Censor on reverse of an unusual card.rnrn (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 2021
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British POW Mail 1916/18: Covers (6) and cards (6), with most mailed in 1918 from soldiers, many captured at Kut in 1916, with censored covers (3) with one to India and two to England from Angora Camp, one from Sgt. Wood of the King's Own Scottish Borderers taken in Palestine (together with two unused b&w postcards numbered 1 and 2 showing troops at the Camp), cover from Samatia Camp, cover from a Lieutenant E.O. Mousley taken at Kut mailed from Brousse camp, and a cover from Afion Kara Hissar Camp and postcard of the Officers building, together with two postcards of Kirchêhir Camp, one depicting Russian troops. A fine and scarce collection. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image 3)(Image 4)(Image 5)(Image 6)(Image 7)(Image 8)(Image 9)(Image)
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Lot No: 2022
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