Turkey help....

[kacyds]

Going through some Turkey stamps this morning and came across this.....  




Well at first I thought it was a Postal Tax Stamp, Scott# RA207

BUT....

[kacyds]

Scott list the stamp as a light olive gray and brown....



The one I have is clearly a purple or violet colored stamp. Cant find a listing for that color....

Thoughts?

[khj]

I didn't check the Scott catalog, but I can tell you right now that Scott doesn't list all of them. Surprise. Also, some of them in different colors are charity stamps, not postal tax stamps.

I have to head out. If nobody has chimed in, I'll try to research the specifics after I return. Unforunately, I don't have an Isfila catalog.

[khj]

Turkey stopped issuing postal tax stamps for charities on 9Jun1958. There is a footnote at the end of the Scott postal tax stamp listings for Turkey. The original beneficiaries were permitted to privately reissue the stamps after that in different colors. I don't have an Isfila catalog, but my guess is your ½c blue charity label was issued in the late 1950s (after June 1958). Other stamps also appear in different colors, and of course later on, completely new designs were used.

Here is a pic showing the 2 Scott listed varieties issued in 1957 (#RA207 & #RA209) and another copy of your blue colored stamp.

[kacyds]

Thanks khj!!!!

[Craig]

. o O ( I am getting so smart, reading these posts. )

[cbavier]

I was thinking. Bake at 350dg for five hours.......................................,.......................................................................................

[cbavier]

there's always a smart alleck around.