Lot 41391 – 1865–1921, Excellent collection, extensively written-up on leaves, with several hundred mint and used stamps accompanied by postal history

1865–1921, Excellent collection, extensively written-up on leaves, with several hundred mint and used stamps accompanied by postal history and including a particularly fascinating study of the 19th century’contraband’/unlisted postage due overprints. The collection begins with over a dozen imperf Tughras incl. 20pa(Scott #1) and 1pi (#2) mint, as well as postage dues to 5pi, then the 1865 first star and crescent set mint, including the elusive 25pi red orange signed (Scott #13), followed by a study of the local posts including 1866 Lannios postage dues and the various official handstamps, through to the unlisted Kachak overprints for mail being carried privately to avoid paying postage, with mint blocks showing se-tenant ovpt types, then issues of 1876 showing the four types each in black, red and blue, as well as groups of inverts etc. The 1880 set complete mint (#59/63), 1886 5pa (#66) and 25pi (#73) used, as well as imperfs and the 1888 2pi bisected and surcharged in Baghdad used on piece, etc, then newspapers with 1891 black ovpts complete used, blue and red ovpts on both 20pa and 1pi(#P11a/b, P12a/b) and 1892 complete used (#P25/P29), 1901 foreign mail and corresponding printed matter ovptsets each with top two values mint (#108/109, P41/P42), 1905, 1908 and 1909 issues by perf types, the latter with key 2 1⁄2 pi mnh, 25pi and 50pi mint, etc. Other good items are the 1909 Jaffa accession with ovpts unlisted, 1911Sultan’s visit town overprints, 1914 set with 25pi and 100pi mint and the 200pi Mohammed V used on piece (#270),1918 Galata provisional postage due handstamps unlisted. Collections of Ottoman Empire with so much depth and material ‘outside the box’ are hardly ever seen