Collection / Asian Country Collections / Cilicia / Presentation overprints
Hand stamp overprints
Large block stamp 18 : 4½ millimeters
Small block stamp 15 : 3½ millimeters
Script stamp
T. E. O./ Cilicie
Typographed overprints on Ottoman postage stamps
This overprint was applied to sheets containing 20 postage stamps. Since the small printing works lacked sufficient "i" type, existing "f", "l" und "t" types were
reworked and then used as temporary "i" types.
"T. E. O. Cilicie"
"FIL" (Cflicle)
"ITI" (Ciltcie)
"TFF" (Ctlfcfe)
"TLL" (Ctllcle)
"Damaged"
"Dot"
Typographed overprints on French postage stamps
1st edition: three or four-line light overprint "O. M. F./ Cilicie/ [2 mm spacing] value"
2nd edition: four or five-line light overprint "O. M. F./ Cilicie/ SAND. EST/ [2 mm spacing] value"
3rd edition: four-line bold overprint "O. M. F./ Cilicie/ [2 mm spacing] value"
4th edition: four-line bold overprint "O. M. F./ Cilicie/ [1 mm spacing] value"