Worldwide Stamps and Covers FRENCH COLONIES - Syria
Sale No: 3008
Lot No:5544
Symbol:*/o
Cat No:Collection
SYRIA 1920s ISSUES COLLECTION. 100s of stamps on quadrille album leaves, the majority are from the Ottoman Empire period and represent the overprint issues with the transition handstamps, organized chronologically from 1919/1920 onwards with high values parallel mint and used, many scarce issues present and including multiples, double overprints, dramatically misplaced perforations, etc., also useful "back of the book" with Arabian postage dues and Ottoman Empire with fiscals postally used, usual mixed condition, VG-VF, extremely difficult to reassemble today with many seldom seen stamps (see online scans)