1923/1957, mainly mint assortment on stockpages, comprising e.g. 1923 Airmails (Maury PA14/17 mint hinged, 400,- €), further airmail issues/overprints, 1929 overprint varieties 5pi. and 25pi. "industr elle" (740 copies of each do exist), 1957 souvenir sheet etc. (Image)

1938/1957, collection of 16 different souvenir sheets, mint never hinged (gummed resp. on ungummed thick paper as issued). Michel nos. Block 1A, 22, 23, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 (on gummed paper), 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47. Issued in low quantities only! (Image)

1856/1867 Two stampless letters from a commercial correspondence from Winterthur, Switzerland to Aleppo both FORWARDED by BELFANTE, CANTONI & LEVANTE in Alexandrette, 1) 1856 via Zürich, St. Louis (Swiss/French border), Mulhouse, Marseilles and Beyrout, and 2) 1867 by train Romanshorn-Zürich, via Geneve, by train to Marseilles, and via Smyrne to Alexandrette, and with blue oval of the forwarding Agency there. Both letters with respective despatch, transit and arrival datestamps.
Value Add Taxes (19%) will be added to the hammer price and the buyers premium. (Image)

1917, Ottoman Empire, 10 Pa green and 1 Pia dark blue, mixed franking on cover from ALEP, 25.4.17, to Breda in Holland, on the frontside boxed ottoman censor handstamp along with red censor seal on reverse, at top edge dutch censor-tape, tied by circular censor cachet 'MILITAIRE CENSUUR B4'. F/VF condition. (Image)

1918, INCOMING P.O.W. MAIL: Great Britain, stampless cover from S.Norwood, 5.SEP.18, endorsed 'Prisoner of War in Turkey' and addressed to DAMASCUS HOSPITAL c/o Ottoman Red Crescent Society Constantinople, on the frontside boxed cachet 'UNDELIVERABLE / RETURN TO SENDER FREE', british censor-tape 'OPENED BY CENSOR P.W.818' on reverse. F/VF condition. Scarce undeliverable POW mail! (Image)

1919, T.E.O. overprints on France, 5m. on 5c. green, bottom marginal block of six, mint never hinged resp. left/centre stamp of top row previously hinged/adhesion marks. Pos. 1 shows "Missing left vertical bar of M", pos. 5 shows "Missing vertical bar of 5", all stamps signed Calves. Attractive multiple with two distinct and unlisted varieties. Maury 5 (for subsumption: Maury lists a variety "Missing dot after E" which is priced with 140,- € for never hinged). (Image)

1919 9pi. on 50c., 5pi. on 40c. and 2pi. on 25c. used on part cover (front only) from Beyrouth to Rochefort-Sur-Mer, France and cancelled by bilingual "BEYROUTH/6 3 20" c.d.s., fine. Only a front but a scarce high franking. (Image)

1919, T.E.O. overprints on French Levant, 20m. rate on reverse of commercial cover from "BEYROUTH 23.12.19" to Casablanca/Morocco with arrival mark 21.1.20, some postal wear as to be expected. Maury 12 (2), 13, 14 (2), 15. (Image)

1920, 1m. on 2pa. lilac, 2m. on 5pa. rose and pair 5m. carmine, attractive franking on commercial cover "BANQUE IMPERIALE OTTOMANE" to Smyrna, backstamped by French field post c.d.s. "No. 528 3.6.20", some postal wear/marks, one stamp with tear. (Image)

1920 Destination ARGENTINA: Picture postcard used from Halep to Buenos Aires in 1920, franked 1920 2m. on 5pa. and definitive 1m., both tied "HALEP/14-7-20" c.d.s., and on the reverse with Buenos Aires '23 Apr. 20' arrival dater. Card with minor traces of ageing/usage but still good, and attractive. A scarce destination. (Image)

1920, 1m. on 1c. grey, thin overprint, block of 13 all with double surcharge thereof one inverted, mint never hinged. Maury 21a/b (13), not priced in that combination, estimated to 2.200,- €. (Image)

1920, 1m. on 1c. grey, thin overprint, block of eleven all with double surcharge, mint never hinged. Maury 21a (11), 1.650,- €. (Image)

1920, O.M.F. overprints, 20pi. on Merson 5fr. blue/cream, thick surcharge (type II) in red, fresh colour and well perforated, mint original gum with hinge remnant. Mi. 380,- €. Maury 30, 400,- €. Only 1500 surcharged. (Image)

1920/1921, 25c. on 1c. slate-grey ("ardoise"), 2nd Gedeon printing, gutter pane of 50 stamps (folded/partly separated/few stamps slight imperfections) showing misplaced/slanted surcharge, mint original gum with hinge remants resp. never hinged. Five stamps even with completely missing overprint (pos. 30, 40, 43, 44, 50). Maury 34 II a var. Rare and attractive - unlisted in Maury. (Image)

1920, 1pi. on 5c. green, black overprint type II, (folded) sheet of 100 stamps (without right and top margin) showing distinctive variety "overprint diagonally shifted towards bottom left", especially in upper half of sheet stamps with "divided" overprint and several stamps with particularities like "O of O.M.F. mutilated resp. missing", mint never hinged. Maury 38 II var. (Image)

1923, Airmails 3pi. on 50c. violet/blue, wide spacing, showing variety "Liabn" (field pos. 3), mint original gum with hinge remnant, perfs with faint toning/age wear. Maury PA15IIc, 1.650,- €++. Only 30 do exist. (Image)

1924 Air complete set of four on airmail cover from DEIR-EL-ZOR to Damas, cancelled '24.1.24' c.d.s. and backstamped Damas arrival dater. Cover with central vert. fold and lightly creased, good. (Image)

1925, 2 x 0,10 P blue, 2 x 1 P rose, 1,25 P dark green and 1,50 P red definitives, mixed franking on cover from Homs, 25.3.25, addressed in arab scripture to Sabri Hamadeh, lebanese president of parliament in Baalbek. VF condition. (Image)

1934 Airmail cover from Damas to Czechoslovakia via 'Damas-Beyrouth-Athens' route, franked 1931-33 Air both 0.50pi., 1pi., 2pi. and 10pi. all tied "DAMAS R.P./18.5.34" c.d.s., Air label on front, Prague transit dater and Levoca arrival c.d.s. on the reverse, good, and attractive. (Image)

1935, ppc "ALEXANDRETTE - La Rade" bearing postage on front/on reverse used as airmail "Beyrouth-Londres" from "ALEXANDRETTE 6.8.35" to Dublin, interesting message "arrived Alexandrette after 9 hours.. Good trip but very tiring. Off to Baghdad this morning". The card slightly shortened and some postal wear but interesting mail from Alexandrette which was ceded to Turkey in 1938. (Image)

1920, Freimarken der Franz. Levante (10 C., 20 C. + 30 C. Type Mouchon II und 40 C. Type Merson) mit schwarzen Aufdruck 'O.M.F. / Syrie / Ch. taxe / .. PIASTRES', ungebraucht mit Falz und sign. Brun, Mi. € 850,-- (Yvert T 1/4, € 900,--)
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1920 Levant postal stationery card 10c. surcharged "O.M.F./Syrie/1 PIASTRE", used from Beyrouth to Paris and cancelled by "BEYROUTH/7.10.20" c.d.s., lightly creased but still good. Very few commercially used cards are known. (Image)

1921 Turkish postal stationery envelope 20pa. surcharged "O.M.F./Syrie/1/PIASTRE", fine unused. A rare envelope of which only 28 examples recorded by Higgins & Gage. (Image)

1921, card 1pi. on 3m. on 10c. carmine, uprated by 1pi. on 5c. green (3rd printing), commercially used from "BEYROUTH 6.6.21" to Damascus with full message (in Arab) on reverse. (Image)