Starting with the "Recapture of Adrianople" stamp in 1913, through to the 1917/18 issue, most of the Ottoman pictorial stamp designs (ie. the pictures) seem to ... Read More...
The first stamps of Ottoman Empire (currently Republic of Turkey) that has the Tughra design has been printed or let’s say lithographed at the end of 1862. 2 &a... Read More...
Duloz Stamps of Ottoman Empire has been printed between 1865 and 1882. The patterns of the stamps were prepared by a crafter called “Mr. Duloz”. Then these sta... Read More...
Toward the end of 1920s famous Turkish philatelist Bondi Beraha noticed various small notes as he was looking through the pages of the album which was comprised... Read More...
(A paper read before the Royal Philatelic Society, London on 24 January 1974)
Introduction
The first postage stamps of Turkey that is those showing the Toughr... Read More...
SOME FURTHER NOTES, SECRET MARKS
In the third number of “The Record of the Philatelic Students’ Fellowship” I described the general design of the stamps of thi... Read More...
The word “Empire” in the title on the stamps “Empire Ottoman”, reads as “Ampir” and this is the reason these Ottoman stamps are called as “Ampir”. In my opinion... Read More...
These stamps were used for printed matter postage like, newspapers, magazines, calendar etc. It is not entirely correct to call these stamps “Newspaper Stamps” ... Read More...
Since the day I stepped on stamp world I was fascinated by the first issues (or Toughra) of the Ottoman stamps. I've been reading articles, studies and books ab... Read More...
