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Post by perfs12 on Aug 3, 2013 11:25:57 GMT
British Levant 1902 40 Paras Registered Letter Postal Stationery
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Aug 3, 2013 11:53:23 GMT
SG0012 (1902) T0083 24 piastres on 05s ke7 [0m1] red File701.jpg
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cjd
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Post by cjd on Aug 3, 2013 13:40:15 GMT
Here are a couple used British Levant examples, socked on the block and socked on the nose: Edward VII used in Smyrna: and a Downey head used in Constantinople: Apologies to those who have seen these before.
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 4, 2013 0:32:17 GMT
Nice stamps folks!
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Post by tobben63 on Mar 16, 2019 7:09:07 GMT
I dont have to manny british Levant stamps, but this one showed up today when I started to going trough my GB stamps. British Post office Constantinople march 3 1908
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Post by Bombadil on Jul 2, 2019 11:03:03 GMT
The area administered by the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire was known politically and philatelically as "The Levant". An international restrictive treaty forbade the Turkish administration from operating international mail, so post offices were opened throughout the empire by a wide range of countries - Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, even Poland and Romania. This treaty was known as the "Capitulations", where the Ottoman empire capitulated its rights to operate international mail. With the outbreak of World War I, Turkey declared this treaty void on 30 September 1914, an act referred to as the "Abrogation of the Capitulations". A civilian British Post Office was first established in Constantinople in 1857. In the following years, four more offices were opened in the Empire that used British, or overprinted British stamps.
Constantinople(now Istanbul) : 1 September 1857 - 30 September 1914 / 4 February 1919 - 27 September 1923 Stamboul (Constantinople sub-office) : 1 April 1884 - 25 August 1896 / 10 February 1908 - 30 September 1914 Smyrna(now Izmir in Turkey) : 1872 - 30 September 1914 / 1 March 1919 - 30 September 1922 Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece) : 1 May 1900 - October 1914 Beyrout (Capital of Lebanon) : 1873 - 30 September 1914 In September-October 1914, all British Levant Post Offices closed down shortly after the WWI broke out.
Beyrout (Lebanon) Post Office opened in March 1873. Regular British stamps were used with the Beyrout G06 "Killer", used until Dec 1883. Mails were usually dispatched directly to Marseilles via French Packet or were forwarded via Alexandria (Cooperation between British and French Post offices abroad). During King Edward VII’s reign, GB postage stamps overprinted "LEVANT" were introduced; these were intended to be affixed to items of mail by Post Office officials.
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Jul 2, 2019 15:29:21 GMT
tobben63 - Nice postmark!! Bombadil - Excellent write-up - and some very fascinating Beirut numeral cancels ! Well done finding them I have been actively looking for similar 'used abroad' numeral cancels for some years now, but have only found one specimen with 'G06' as yet...so they don't come around too often. Please show us more of the same kind of material if you have - I love it - and so do many others, like barbu
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Jul 2, 2019 18:31:28 GMT
Bombadil and tobben63 - You guys inspired me to share something on this fine thread. I am at work offshore, so I don't have access to my 'G06' Beirut / Lebanon forerunner. However I happened to have images on skydrive of something similar. Great Britain - Victoria - postmarked in Constantinople - 'C'. The latter 2 not in best condition but it doesn't bother me too much - in these cases it is more the postmark than the stamp itself that is attractive. The last few years, this kind of postal history items has been my favourite collecting area
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 3, 2019 10:36:24 GMT
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Post by Londonbus1 on Sept 6, 2020 18:38:03 GMT
A query regarding the item shown below. 1921 Royal Cypher Watermark issue. But is the left stamp an example of the 'Short Fraction Bar ' ? It is much shorter than the bar on the right stamp but is it short enough ? I could answer the question myself if I knew of the sheet size of such British Stamps, but my searches have drawn a blank thus far. So if there are any KGV Great Britain experts in the house..........What is the sheet size of the Royal Cypher issues ? Thanks in advance.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 6, 2020 19:46:15 GMT
Thanks for a very interesting post, Michael ( Londonbus1 ). I have no particular knowledge in this area, but consulting my 2014 SG Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 Catalogue, it certainly seems that your example, while certainly a shorter fraction bar than normal, is not as short as what is depicted in the catalogue. Perhaps you have already seen this? Perhaps a true specialist can tell us.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Sept 6, 2020 20:18:45 GMT
Beryllium Guy.......I have noticed this and that's why I am trying to find out how many vertical rows there are on a KGV GB sheet. If there are 12, which I suspect there are, then the answer is done. I cannot find an image of a whole sheet anywhere........most odd.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Sept 6, 2020 20:28:09 GMT
OK, Michael ( Londonbus1), I figured you probably already knew that. How about this? www.gbos.org.uk/index.php/Country_List/23This is the website of the GB Overprints Society, and their website has a whole section about the Levant. Maybe you can contact someone there who will be able to answer?
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Post by Londonbus1 on Sept 6, 2020 20:56:52 GMT
Beryllium Guy......many thanks for the link but I have found out just now that all KGV definitive stamps were printed in sheets of 240, 2 panes of 120 (12x10) so there lies the answer to the question. If the varieties are both on the last vertical row (Column) then my stamp does NOT have a listed short fraction bar. Oh well, it was fun checking !! Thanks....... (Anyway, no matter what the outcome, the stamp will be on it's way to pastures new tomorrow)
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