1892 5pi Pale Violet Newspaper Stamp, used with a very light cancel, very fine and sold as is. (Image)

Scott $ 1,775

Collection / Accumulation of Mint and Used Turkey, 1863-1990, with many hundreds of stamps. including a few souvenir sheets. mounted on a few hundred Steiner pages, housed in three thick binders. The regular issues generally range from 1917 up to the 1990s, with roughly 90% completeness for regular issues up to 1990. The collection continues with selections of back of the book material including Postage Due, military stamps, newspaper stamps, Semi-postals, Airmail, Postal Tax, Officials, etc. A cursory check indicated a few stamps and souvenir sheets cataloguing $5 to $20, including Scott #841 souvenir sheet (c.v. $75). Online photos show a sampling. We note a few small faults with a few of the early stamps. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 200

Collection of Mint and Used Turkey, 1863-2009, with roughly 1,500 stamps, well organized, in 18 manilla stock pages, housed in a binder. The collection begins with roughly 500 mint stamps, ranging from Scott #9/2570, along with selections of back of the book material. A cursory check revealed better items with 2023 Scott #s 61-62 (m.h., c.v. $130 total), 134 (m.h., $45), 457, 462-463, 468 (m.h., $180 total), 915a souvenir sheet (m.h., $70), 1101a souvenir sheet (m.h., $125), along with stamps, sets, and partial sets cataloguing $10 and up. The collection continues with roughly 1,000 used stamps, ranging from Scott #20/2844, along with selections of back of the book material, noting #270 (used, $300), along with stamps, sets, and partial sets cataloguing $10 and up. The collection also includes selection of mint and used Cyprus and Turkey in Asia. Owner's 2014 Scott catalogue value totals $5,132. Online photos show a sampling. We note a few small faults with some of the early mint and used stamps. Overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 400

Collection of Early Mint and Used Turkey, includes a collection of the Crescent stamps of the Ottoman Empire (Scott 53-77) on 6 pages, with 70 stamps including better such as #s 73 (used, c.v. $425), three bisected issues, an unsevered bisect, 77 (used, $150) and others, including postmark interest, as well as a 2010 specialized Isfila catalogue on the issue. Also includes several mint blocks and multiples of the Crescent issue and preceding Crescent and Star issue, as well as three stock pages with the 1911 stamps overprinted Monastir, Pristina, Salonique and Uskub. Last but not least is a money letter mailed from Simbirsk Russia in 1878 to the monks in Mount Athos in Greece, carried via Odessa, with a write-up (both sides of cover are scanned. All items are illustrated online, a great lot for the Turkey specialist or dealer. (Image)

Estimate $ 350