Once in a lifetime specialised collection, the collector spent over 50 years on this collection, with much knowledge, patience and big finances, starting with the sought after first issue from 1863 with over 440(!!!) stamps including mint, multiples (even a bloc of 6!!), tete-beches, then the further issues very specialised including the expensive issues often more than once present, cancels, covers, varieties, proofs, blocs of 4, overprints including varieties, papers, shades, multiples, bisects, imperfs, specimen, old booklets, also great back of the book and occupation, housed in 12 albums. What a great collection, nearly impossible to find anywhere in the world!!!

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Incredible extensive and specialised collection, from A-Z, mainly clear strikes, very many scarce and rare cancels, also many RRR cancels present, collected according to the Turkish specialised catalogue, also uncatalogued cancels, multiples, foreign cancels etc. etc. etc. housed in 9 albums. It took the collector over 50 years to get this collection together, over 7700 cancels present. Unique collection!!

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