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Italian Offices in the Turkish Empire
1908-1923
Several of the European powers maintained offices in the Turkish Empire from the late 1800s until Treaty of Lausanne was signed in 1923. Italy (in most cases) began with general issues used throughout the area and gradually moved to more specific issues.
Scott begins all the issues with #1, while Gibbons numbers them sequentially.
See also France - Germany - GB - Russia - Rumania
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General issue † |
Albania ‡ |
Constantinople † |
Durazzo |
Janina § |
| 1st Sep 1902 Sc1 SG27 |
1st Sep 1902 Sc1 SG18 |
Feb 1909 Sc1 SG52 |
February 1909 Sc1 SG109 |
Dec 1902 Sc1 SG117 |
| FICC 401 | FICC 369 | FICC 406 | FICC 407 | FICC 372 |
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Jerusalem |
Salonika |
Scutari |
Smyrna |
Valona |
| Feb 1909 Sc1 SG125 |
Feb 1909 Sc1 SG133 |
Feb 1909 Sc1 SG141 |
Feb 1909 Sc1 SG151 |
Feb 1909 Sc1 SG159 |
| FICC 408 | FICC 409 | FICC 410 | FICC 411 | FICC 412 |
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Constantinople printing |
| 1908 Sc6 SG33 |
† Scott regards this as the first of the 1908 general issue. Some (Sc1-5) were overprinted in Turin, others (Sc6-12) were overprinted in Constantinople with the same text but in a different font, shown right. Gibbons lists this Constantinople printing as the first issue for Constantinople itself, but Scott attributes that to the first stamp with the text "Constantinopli".
‡ Gibbons states that the 1908 issue inscribed "ALBANIA" was "[f]or use in post offices at Durazzo, Janina, Scutari and Valona". Gibbons further notes that its 1907 set SG27-29, Albania overprints without the country inscription, "were put on sale at all post offices in the Turkish Empire", thus possibly corresponding with Scott's General Issue.
§ Gibbons does not list an overprint under Janina without the inscription "Janina". Gibbons first, SG117 is Sc5.