Syria

Syria stamps

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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

Scott: #C175-7P

Issued: 0.0.1954

Definitive

Inside #C175-7: Stamp on Envelope

#C246

Scott: #412P, #C246P

Issued: 18.10.1957

Int'l. Letter Writing Week

Inside #412: Syria #412

Inside #C246: Stamp on Envelope

Mi: Block # 44O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

#C249

Scott: #420O, #C249O

Issued: 12.2.1958

Definitive

Inside #420, #C249: Stamp on Envelope

#674 #676

Scott: #674-6P

Issued: 15.3.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #674: Stamp on Envelope

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno)

Scott: #701O

Issued: 17.3.1975

Publicity for Savings Certificates and Postal Savings Bank

Inside #701: Stamp on Envelope

%23739

Scott: #738-9P

Issued: 12.4.1976

Post's Day

Syria Arabian Gov't Inside #738-9: Syria Arabian Gov't. #85O

#1169

Scott: #1169O

Issued: 6.6.1989

Arab Post Day

Inside #1169: Stamp on Envelope

#1172

Scott: #1172O

Issued: 26.6.1989

World Post Day

Inside #1172: Pseudo Stamps (?)

Scott: #1230O

Issued: 11.12.1990

World Post Day

Inside #1230: Stamp on Envelope

#1265

Scott: #1265-6O

Issued: 12.3.1992

Re-election of President Assad

Inside #1265-6: Syria #1036O

Inside #1265-6: Syria #C496O

Inside #1265-6: Syria #C506O

Scott: #1297O

Issued: 9.10.1993

World Post Day

Inside #1297: Stamps on Envelopes

#1350

Scott: #1350O

Issued: 11.11.1994

25^th Anniversary Corrective Movement

#1044 Inside #1350: Syria #1044O

Inside #1350: Syria #720O

Inside #1350: Syria #1227bO

Inside #1350: Syria #903O

Scott: #1346O

Issued: 2.10.1995

World Post Day

Inside #1346: Pseudo Stamps

Scott: #1418O

Issued: 26.9.1998

Arab Post Day

Inside #1418: Stamp on Envelope

1999

Scott: #1428O

Issued: 11.2.1999

Re-election of President Assad for his fifth tenure in power

Inside #1428: Syria #1036O

Inside #1428: Syria #C496O

#C506 Inside #1428: Syria #C506O

Scott: #1514O

Issued: 9.10.2002

World Post Day

Inside #1514: Stamp on Envelope

[World Post Day, type BKO]

Scott: #1682O

Issued: 09.10.2010

World Post Day

Inside #1682: Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Prof. Plinio Richelmi

Scott: #????O

Issued: ??.11.2018

100th Anniversary of first Aleppo stamps

Inside #????: Aleppo stamp, 1918

Our side of the stamp....:)

Martin Hirschbühl send the first link to this stamp and wrote: To be honest, I did not find that Aleppo-stamp (provisional issue?) listed in my antique Michel-Catalogue. As it seems, some Lebanese carpet-bagger try to earn some money out of the souvenir-sheet (1000) not shown here.

Lou Guadagno wrote: I did some extensive on line searching for the Aleppo Provisionals without success. When I next go to the Collectors Club, I will check the library of French catalogs that may have info. Another dealer is now offering a stamp/ss combo for $85.00, so the price is going down. Are there 1000 Syria/Sos collectors in the world?

Michael Ullrich Wrote: I haven`t found anything either. The Kingdom of Syria was formed March 1920. Their first stamps were issued in the same year as overprints on Turkish stamps. Alexander Bungerz wrote in 1923, that Aleppo had a french post office but did not mention anything about this stamp. Stays a mystery to me, I haven't heard anything up to now about this issue.

and Michael Merritt found the cover from Delcampe.....

A sample from an auction

https://stamp-auctions.de/lots_en.php?LISN=197704&Pic=0

1918, ALEPPO PROVISIONAL ISSUES. Gray cover to Dr. Anthony Sakkal at American College in Bayreuth franked with Aleppo Type 1 Provisional (Arabic negative seal struck on gummed paper, cut out and used as adhesive) tied by bold HALEP 2 Nov 4 cds, alongside Arabic military censor negative seal handstamp, bkstps of DAMAS (Nov 24) and FIELD (POST OFFICE) SZ 29 (Nov 25), routed via Port Said with PASSED BY CENSOR No. 10 British civil handstamp and French "OUVERT par l'AUTORITE MILITAIRE 953" handstamp, forwarded to Aleppo (Dec 29 arrival) with bkstps of DAMAS (Dec 14) and ARMY POST OFFICE A (Dec) and on front "Arab Government Publication Department" negative seal handstamp (K&U Fig. 37), tiny piece missing upper left corner, Kaczmarczk & Unwin record only four covers bearing this stamp and the quadruple censorship is extraordinarily rare in its own right, especially nice with all four markings together on front, Fine.

Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl, Lou Guadagno, Michael Ullrich and Michael Merritt

[The 100th Anniversary of the First Independent Syria Postage Stamps, type BSW]