REFLECTION TASK 2 B - PRESENTATION OF A BOOK / CATALOGUE

      In this reflection task I would like present a book / catalogue to you. ISFILA 2014 Turkish Stamps Catalogue is published by İstanbul Philatelic and Cultural Center Co. in 2014 and it has valuable information about the whole Ottoman and Turkish stamps information during the period of 1863 - 2014 and annually they publish the new version of this catalog. It was prepared by M. Ziya Ağaoğulları and M. Bülent Papuçcuoğlu which is their 7th catalogue of this serie, it has 462 pages and it costs 65 TL.
      At the beginning of the book/ catalogue the publishers have given the explanations in detail about the stamps regarding the group series, issue date, name, perforations, printed quantity of the series, printing process, printing house, illustration of the stamps, catalogue number, denomination value of the stamp, color and if any particularity of the stamp, quantity, color of the overprint / surcharge, etc.
      First Ottoman stamps took place in 1862 and there were only two nominations of 2 and 5 Kurus stamps have been used which is called Tughra first printing postage stamps. On 12th January 1863 Tughra brown color postage due stamps, thin paper have been used and these are the most valuable stamps of Ottoman and Turkish Republic time which worth around 200000 USD.
      It has interesting information about our recent history such as Ottoman postage stamps overprinted by TBMM - Turkish Grand National Assembly Government in 1920 which has been showing that the postage service was ongoing even during the war times. Young Republic and its all new developments or changes in the country's social, economic and cultural life have been represented on the stamps which is a valuable source for academic purposes when you make researches about the recent history of Turkish Republic on 20th century.
      As a collectionist and philatelist I have been always grateful to the publishers of such valuable catalog which is really a must-to-have book about our recent history and contemporary stamps with all details about them. It helped a lot to me in order to arrange and classify my thousands of stamps according to their characteristics and catalog numbers. I like the style and the quality of this precious reference book/catalogue which was and is always useful and informative for me.