20 PARA TOUGHRA STAMP PLATE "RECONSTRUCTION" STUDY
By T.
Cenk SARIUCAK
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 about
Toughra stamps since. It's not easy to find
information about these stamps since they are not
very popular - or common - in the stamp collecting
world. So I did a lot of searching around and found
only some...
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 they should be called as “Crescent Stamps”.
These stamps
were issued because of the Universal Postal Union
has been established and accepted by the states in
those years. As per the regulation of the...
In
the third number of “The Record of the Philatelic
Students’ Fellowship” I described the general design
of the stamps of this issue, I now propose to deal
with the secret marks which appear on all genuine
stamps and which are not necessary portions of the
design. These marks play an important part in
deciding the genuineness of specimens, for many of
the forgeries...
The
first postage stamps of Turkey that is those showing
the Toughra, despite being of the same design, are
really three separate issues. The 2 and 5 Kurus were
the first stamps to be printed, being lithographed
at the end of 1862, although they were not issued
until 1864. Both values were transferred to the
lithographic stone in horizontal rows, and all the
rows are upright, there being no tęte-bęche rows in
this printing.
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
of an old collection of stamps dated between
1863-1892. These notes said that Toughra stamps were
designed and impressed by two men,
“Ser-Sikkeken Abdulfettah Efendi” and....
At the beginning of 1863 Turkey
followed the example of Great Britain and other countries by adopting adhesive
labels for the prepayment of the postage, the first government stamps being
issued during the reign of Sultan Abdul Aziz.
Until
then the right to transmit mails had been conceded
to various private companies, who used their own
labels. Before the advent of these companies mails
were transported...
