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Auction: 24018 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 163

(x) British Levant
1873-1922 mint and used specialised collection housed in two Plymouth albums including a good range of British Post Offices in the Turkish Empire with Great Britain stamps cancelled with obliterations of Beyrout, Constantinople, Stamboul, Smyrna, Salonica and British Field Post Offices in Salonica used, used on piece and used on cover, followed by Turkish Currency with 1885-88 40pa. on 2½d., 80pa. on 5d. green and 12pi. on 2/6d. blued paper, 12pi. on 2/6d. white all both mint and used (also an example of the 12pi. on 2/6d. white paper overprinted "specimen"), 1887-96 with a range of mint and used including on cover and with 40pa. on 2½d. with Smyrna, Beyrout, Stamboul and Salonica cancellations, 80pa. on 5d. mint (3) one with small "0" in "80", and a used example, 4pi. on 10d. mint (4) and used including on covers (2), 1893 40pa. on ½d. used (3) and also on cover to cancelled 'c' in oval of bars used on first day of issue (with BPA Cert.), 1902-05 with all values to 24pi. on 5/- including mint and used examples of each value including 12pi. on 2/6d. on cover to Paris, examples of 80pa. on 5d. to 24pi. on 5/- overprinted "specimen", 1905-08 1pi. on 2½d. mint (6) including a block of four, and an examples used on cover, 1906 1pi. on 2d. used, 1909 set to 5pi. on 1/- mint and also used, 1913-14 set to 5pi. on 1/- mint, 1pi. on 2½d. cobalt blue control block of six, 1921 18¾pi. on 1/-, 45pi. on 2/6d., 90pi. on 5/- and 190pi. on 10/- overprinted "specimen", along with a range of mint examples of Seahorses with shades, varieties, and used on cover; a lovely specialised group with a good range of mint, multiples, used and used on cover, generally good to fine

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Estimate
£3,500 to £4,500