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Here is another one, Turkey #306. What do I make of this off-center star and crescent? I really like it when I find interesting things like this.
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Given that the paper of the stamp is lightly stained red, that it is an over-inking. Another possibility is that another sheet was laid over this one while it was still wet, and shifted, causing some streaking.
It seems precision was not a a high virtue among those that placed the overprints.
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06:33:51pm
In the mid '60s I found a small stamp cubby room in Istanbul
that passed as a stamp store on a side street not too far
from the Hilton Hotel. I tried to buy some stamps but his
English was limited to "hello" and my Turkish was not even
that workable.
However, there was another client sitting on a chair nearby
who seemed moderately fluent in French, again better than my
High School French, and so the conversation went on almost
comically. I did notice several Turkish stamps with similar
overprints and while the price in Kurus (Kura, kuruses ???)
on some varied for well centered overprints. Not much but to
me a few pennies here and there. When I asked "pourquoi la
différence" or something like that and my gestures and finger
pointing to the way the overprints were located, he replied
by making a fist as if holding something and brought it down
several times moving slightly each time, as the friendly
translator said (again, something like) "Imprimé à la main."
So if my memory is right the overprinting was a manual process,
striking one or a few stamps at a time.
My only regret is that I did not buy even more and possibly
the much higher priced issues at that time. Even better, the
whole album. But I had just returned to stamping and had so
much to learn.
I hope that is a decent answer.
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02:22:55pm
So I ran across this one while sorting through an old collection of Turkish stamps. It caught my attention right away. Is this an error on #305 or did the ink bleed down into the crescent? On the top right of the crescent it even looks a bit like the shading of Semi-Postal stamps. Thanks in advance for your input. - Mel
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02:28:37pm
re: Error or too much ink?
Here is another one, Turkey #306. What do I make of this off-center star and crescent? I really like it when I find interesting things like this.
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re: Error or too much ink?
Given that the paper of the stamp is lightly stained red, that it is an over-inking. Another possibility is that another sheet was laid over this one while it was still wet, and shifted, causing some streaking.
It seems precision was not a a high virtue among those that placed the overprints.
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12 May 2020
06:33:51pm
re: Error or too much ink?
In the mid '60s I found a small stamp cubby room in Istanbul
that passed as a stamp store on a side street not too far
from the Hilton Hotel. I tried to buy some stamps but his
English was limited to "hello" and my Turkish was not even
that workable.
However, there was another client sitting on a chair nearby
who seemed moderately fluent in French, again better than my
High School French, and so the conversation went on almost
comically. I did notice several Turkish stamps with similar
overprints and while the price in Kurus (Kura, kuruses ???)
on some varied for well centered overprints. Not much but to
me a few pennies here and there. When I asked "pourquoi la
différence" or something like that and my gestures and finger
pointing to the way the overprints were located, he replied
by making a fist as if holding something and brought it down
several times moving slightly each time, as the friendly
translator said (again, something like) "Imprimé à la main."
So if my memory is right the overprinting was a manual process,
striking one or a few stamps at a time.
My only regret is that I did not buy even more and possibly
the much higher priced issues at that time. Even better, the
whole album. But I had just returned to stamping and had so
much to learn.
I hope that is a decent answer.
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