TURKEY: 1850s-1900s, Fascinating specialised selection of mostly earlier material with wide ranging scope, starring a tremendous array of varieties and cancels of all sorts, with many scarce and unusual items (Est. € 1’200/1’600) (Image)

1863-65 Second Printing 20pa black on yellow, red control band at top and bottom, mint TÊTE-BÊCHE BLOCK OF TEN (head-to-head) with full gum, showing five tête-bêche pairs, one pair re-joined at the left, a stunning exhibition showpiece Price: CHF 7’000 (Image)

1863-65 Second Printing 20pa black on yellow, central control band, used tête-bêche (foot-to-foot) block of eleven (Types VIIA-VIII/VI-IIa), showing blue dotted cancel, exhibition showpiece (Isfila 3TB02) Provenance: Passer, Brandt & Kuyas Price: CHF 12’000 (Image)

1863-65 Second Printing 2pi black on blue green, with red control bands head to head, mint vertical tête-bêche block of sixteen (Types VII-X/I-IV/VII-X/XII-IX), some usual creases, very fine & a stunning showpiece Price: CHF 26’000 (Image)

1863-65 Second Printing 5pi black on rose red, with control bands in yellow foot to foot, mint tête-bêche block of six (Types IV-V/X-XI/IV-V), showing fancy YELLOW CONTROL BANDS very fine & an extremely rare mint multiple (6) Note: Illustrated in Basaran (2007) page 91 Provenance: Bombieri Price: CHF 10’000 (Image)

1863-65 Second Printing 20pa black on brick-red, with blue control band at top and bottom, mint TÊTE-BÊCHE BLOCK OF SIX (head-to-head), some usual defects, a very fine & rare mint multiple Price: CHF 7’000 (Image)

1863-65 Third Printing 1pi black on pale grey, with red control bands head to head, mint tête-bêche block of four, very fine & a rare mint multiple Price: CHF 4’000 (Image)

1881 Registered envelope from Constantinople to Galatz, Romania, franked 1876-82 Duloz 2pi in combination with Empire 1pi, cover faults, unusual & scarce combination (Image)

1890-98 MACEDONIA: Postal stationery card 20pa rose of Turkey bearing negative cancel of USKUB with Hebrew text at back and obviously local delivery, scarce postmark (Image)

1891 10pa green on grey, perforated 13 1/4 in never hinged/hinged block of sixteen with extremely black overprint ‘IMPRIME’, as usual with large blocks some reinforcement of perforation by hinge, a very fine and scarce block with original gum, cert. Dr.Nakri, provenance: Alanyali, Garmiryan and Kuyas (Image)

1891 20pa rose on grey, perforated 13 1/4 in unused block of twelve with black overprint ‘IMPRIME’, a very fine and scarce block, cert. Dr.Nakri, provenance: Alanyali, Garmiryan (Image)

1905 Postal Stationery envelopes, twelve envelope stuck to page and all with large red Madagascar specimen cachet, scarce (Image)

1914 Pictorial Issue showing twenty seven Bradbury Wilkenson photographic proofs, mostly from designs that were never issued, some creases, still an important showpiece (27 proofs) (Image)

1919 Armistice 2 1/2Pi in mnh block of ten, Mi. Nr 640 x10 €3’600 (Image)

1935 Star & Crescent, imperforated coloured essays, 1pi to 500pi twenty four different pasted into two special presentation booklets, appearance of water damage, unusual & very scarce (24 proofs) (Image)

1935 12th International Suffragettes Congress, 1k coloured essays, twenty different pasted into special presentation booklet, appearance of water damage, unusual & very scarce (20 proofs) (Image)

1863-1914 Cancellation lot on 13 stockcards, noted Scutari d’Albanie in blue, Nasriye, Medine, Volos, Houdeida, Aivali, Larissa, Samos, many négatives, etc., mixed to very fine (Est. € 80/120)

1863-1934, Attractive mint & used collection in Borek album showing a great deal of completion, Tughras, Duloz, later sets, airs, etc., scissor-cut on Sultan Mohammed V 200pi green o/w rest is generally very fine (Est. € 500/800) (Image)

1875-1920 FISCALS: Many 100s of revenue stamps, mostly on fragments of judicial documents, from a range of years, a great basis for a specialised collection (Est. € 300/500)

1898-1926, Lot of six covers and cards incl. rare oversized registered postal stationery, also “T” postage due cover, most items addressed to the US (Est. € 120/200)

1916-18, GERMAN MILITARY MISSION IN TURKISH EMPIRE collection of 28 covers/cards (plus 2 picture postcards and a few stamps), incl. Feldpost cancels from Gleisspitze Bagdadbahn, A.O.K.6, Constantinople, Mossul, Aleppo and Bagdad, plus Marine Schiffspost, etc., rare (Est. € 800/1’200) (Image)

1921 7 1/2Pi on 3Pi blue, 100 mnh examples (mostly in large blocks), Mi. Nr 688 x100 €10’000 (Est. € 800/1’200) (Image)

FORGERIES: 19th Century reference collection with some genuine, well written-up and researched including diagrams, with over 60 examples including newspaper stamps overprints present, ideal for the specialist (Est. CHF 100/150) (Image)

FORGERIES: 19th Century reference collection of the star and crescent issues incl. some genuine, about 150 examples housed on hand written album pages, including diagrams, one of the highlights is an unusual block of 25 of the 25 piastres mauve and buff, a great lot for the specialist (Est. CHF 200/300) (Image)

SHIPPING COMPANIES OF THE LEVANT: 1859 Porto-Piaster stamp on folded cover to Smyrna paying an unusual 6 1/2pi rate, boxed P.P. / Anchor in black alongside, very fine & scarce (Image)