Postage Stamps of Italian Post Offices in the Levant

by Tony Clayton

Smirne

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The Italian Post Office in Smirne opened in May 1908. It closed from October 1911 to December 1912 because of the Italo-Turkish War, and again between 1914 and 1919 during the First World War. It finally closed in June 1923.

In February 1909, seven denominations were created by overprinting Italian stamps along with the denomination in Turkish currency.

An 8th value, 40 piastre on 10 lire, was issued January 1911.

In June 1923 5 further stamps were overprinted; very few of these actually reached Smirne, but there are rare genuinely used copies with a 'Poste Militare 171' postmark.

2 Piastre on 50c Sassone 5.	20 Piastre on 5 lire Sassone 7. The scarcest of the mint Smirne issues
Unissued 20 parà on 5 centesimi Sassone 9.	Unissued 7 piastre 20 parà on 1 lire Sassone 13.

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