Lot 32352 – Turkey – Duloz: 1865-1877 An outstanding award-winning

Turkey – Duloz: 1865-1877 An outstanding award-winning exhibition collection neatly mounted and knowledgeably written up on 80 exhibition pages.

The collection treats the fascinating subject of the Duloz issues being second issue of the Ottoman Empire. “Dissatisfied” with the first issue as compared with “the well-executed stamps of other countries”, the Ottoman Empire turned to France for its second issue of postage stamps, following Greece’s decision to have its first stamps printed in Paris. This famous “Crescent & Star” emblematic design was initially ordered for production and printing in Paris. The contract was given to the Parisian printer Poitevin. At Poitevin, Pierre Edelestand Stanislas Dulos (1820-1874) prepared the first dies, engraved the first plates and gave his name to the stamps.Later issues were printed in Constantinople, first with the original dies and later with die plates made in Constantinople.

The scope of the collection includes all of the recorded Duloz issues from 1865 through to 1877. Arranged in date order it encompasses colour essays, proofs, generally, issues and postage dues, showing mint, used, multiples, cancellations, errors and varieties with an extensive array of plates flaws and re-entries, preprinting paper flaws, overprint errors including inverted, missing, double, triple, misplaced overprints and printed on the reverse, perforation errors with an extensive range of imperforates in singles and blocks, imperf. between pairs etc. Additionally a wonderful and attractive range of covers showing a fine array of usages from all the recorded issues with values to 25pi, also many usages outside of Turkey in many offices in the vast Ottoman Empire which include Bulgaria, Greece, Lebanon, Yugoslavia and Syria etc.

A truly wonderful display of these popular issues which has an excellent basis for study and expansion (975+ proofs, essays and stamps, 33 covers)