1843, entire folded letter from “SMYRNE 4.Fevr.1843”, boxed “P.P.' in black alongside, sent to Constantinople with arrival cds. and rate ”8" décimes on reverse, fine and scarce origin.

1858, Admiralty adhesive (-) in deep claret shade, imperforate with large margins on three sides and close but clear at upper right, a used example endorsed "3" (piastres) in ink manuscript alongside the 'Po. Pe.' (Porto Piastre) in the central vignette, on large irregular piece of cover addressed to Smyrne with framed 'P-Anchor-P' cachet in black at left. Very Rare. Cert. Behr (2009).

1876, "SAKIZ VAPUR SUBESI" (Chio Island, Isfila no.1, RRR) blue cancellation on cover with 1 pia. yellow, few tiny spots, fine and very rare Greece & Turkey postal history. In PROFI archive only two covers recorded.

1883, BELL'S ASIA MINOR S.S.Co SYRA AGENCY blue oval cachet on agents bill, vertical file fold, very fine and attractive steam ship document, scarce Greece & Turkey naval postal history, certificate du Vachat!

1864, Turkey 20 pa. black on yellow thin paper, a fine horizontal pair (right stamp closed on top) and single, generally good to wide margins, tied to 1864 entire letter from Sarajewo to Mostar, stamps very light cancelled Bosna in dots (Brandt-Ceylan Type IIA no.1, RRR), fine first issue entire.

1869, „RUSCUK 81“, all arabic double circle, clear strike (AP Type:04, No:5, R) on envelope to Constantinople, at arrival Duloz 1868 issue 1 pia. yellow and 20 p. green tied by Deraliye box type to envelope. A fine and rare cover. Signed Nakri AIEP.

"NASLIDJ ", cds (ISFILA type 3) on postcard with long text, dated 1903, endorsed "via Salonique Athens". Supposed to be unique.

1918, Parcel card for a sending to Taganrog weighting 40 funts (about 16 kg), endorsed “11 (roubles) 80 (kopeks)" and accordingly franked with Kiev Tridents 5 r. and 50 k.  (block of ten and strip of three) in mixed franking with Russia 15 k. (vertical pair), all tied by cds “FUNDUKLEEV KIEV 2 10 18”, reverse ”TAGANROG 22 9 23"; fine and very scarce

1920, Vienna Series, unissued Trident 1 hr., large printer´s trial bloc of 50 printed on reverse of map, fine and scarce

unissued 5 hr. and 40 hr., imperforate printer´s trial on maps, each as a single and bloc of 8, without gum, very fine and scarce

unissued, imperforate printer´s trials without gum, with 60 hr. with inverted centre (minor tone spot at top margin), 100 hr. printed with misplaced centre vignette of the 80 hr., also 30 hr. two singles, all printed on map, fine to very fine, scarce 

1918 BOOKLET: 1913, Imperial Russia booklet for 2 roubles on black on buff cover, specially issued for the “KIEV POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE”, originally containing nine panes, each of six adhesives for three values of 7 k. (3), 3 k. (3) and 1 k. (3), overprinted in 1918 with violet trident single rubber handstamp (Bulat Kyiv Type 2), only one pane of 7 k. intact, the others either missing or incomplete, 31 adhesives remaining in total, of no...