TURKEY IN ASIA 1920-1923
EXP-00938
Further information
Collection including very scarce frankings, 1921, Religious Tribunals pair 5 Pia. ultramarine handstamped 1337, on registered cover from DIARBEKIR 2-29/11/21 ds. together with 50 Pia. revenue used as postal stamp, transit and censor marks Ankara to Istanbul with arrival mark. The 5 Pia. ultramarine on cover is one of the great rarities of Angora issues, ex Plantinga, Few covers franked by first Ankara overprints, scarce cancellations and destinations, bisects, parcel cards with high frankings.
Certificate to the sheet number 19 in the exhibit
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Classification
- Territory
- Levant Turkey Ottoman Empire, Levant
- Subject
- History of the post and its operations (incl. a chosen territory) Postal rates and methods of franking (incl. inflation, currency reforms etc.) Standard post office postmarks
- Time period
- Interwar period
- Exhibition class
- Non-standard-size exhibits