TURKEY.
October, 1914. Current stamps ([see Figs. 263 et seq.]) overprinted (?) in commemoration of the closing of all foreign post offices in Turkey, as a consequence of the abolition of the Capitulations. The overprint is in two lines of Turkish characters.
- 5 paras, purple-brown.
- 10 paras, green.
- 20 paras, scarlet.
- 1 piastre, blue.
- 2 piastres, green and black.
- 5 piastres, deep lilac.
- 10 piastres, red-brown.
NOTICE.
[This check list of stamps of the war will be revised, continued and presented as a supplement which will be given away from time to time with The Postage Stamp (1d. weekly), of all newsagents, or by post 4s. 4d. per annum from the publishers, S. R. Le Mare, 21 Paternoster Square, London, E.C.]