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Provisional Issue 1338
The provisional local overprints issued by the Ankara Government during the War of Independence, read through the covers that carried them.
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New articles and notes on Ottoman and Turkish stamps, postmarks, and postal routes
Şevket Vahdeti, Artist of the Dulos Stamps (c.1833-1871)
The Arrest of the Manufacturers of Counterfeit Hejaz Railway Stamps (1914)
From the Menzilhane to the Tughra
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Discover the evolution of the postal history during a tumultuous journey through the Ottoman Empire’s final period, wartime transitions, the early Republic, and later years.
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Dedicated galleries of maps, prints, covers, and postcards, each a substantial collection in its own right, together forming a wide window into Turkish and Ottoman history.
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Turkish Postal History began as one collector's archive and grew into a reference used by collectors and researchers worldwide. Every article, cover, and cancellation here is documented to be studied, cited, and built upon.
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