hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 12, 2020 12:49:41 GMT
There was no thread for Syrian stamps yet, so here goes, to be started with a few overprinted French postage due issues from 1924:  |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Sept 12, 2020 15:06:21 GMT
What a troubled part of the world, artificially created by the Allies out of the dismembered Ottoman Empire in 1920 by drawing lines on a map. Britain was Mandated by the league of nations control of Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq, and France was Mandated to look after the territories that became Syria and Lebanon. Creating countries by the stroke of a pen was never a great idea.! In 1939 the area round Alexandretta in the north west corner of Syria, adjacent to Turkey declared itself the Republic of Hatay. Rejecting the French Mandate within a few months it agreed to join itself back to Turkey . Turkish stamps overprinted for this part of Syria which was a very short lived Republic. (Syria still lays claim to this province.)  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 27, 2021 17:03:37 GMT
Four 1924 airmail stamps made from overprinted French Merson issues:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 26, 2021 18:07:32 GMT
I bought a new Syria French protectorate issue, YT #150 (others I saw today were outside my budget), an overprint of a 1924 Paris Olympiad issue:
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renden
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Post by renden on Sept 26, 2021 18:29:18 GMT
I bought a new Syria French protectorate issue, YT #123 (others I saw today were outside my budget), an overprint of a 1924 Paris Olympiad issue:
Nice, Xavier !! I have not added Syria to mu French colonies (in Africa) LOL !! but like it vey much René |
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stainlessb
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Jun 7, 2022 20:15:44 GMT
not sure if this should go here or not... Type blanc Levant that's all I know about this (Admin feel free to move if there's a better spot for this!)  |
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renden
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Post by renden on Jun 7, 2022 20:59:24 GMT
not sure if this should go here or not... Type blanc Levant that's all I know about this (Admin feel free to move if there's a better spot for this!) Stan - will check it more deeply tomorrow - René Thanks |
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