Contents include:
The Wing of Islam: Umayyad, Abbasid, and Mamluk Posts; Mr. Scudamore’s
Appointment; The 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and the Sea Post Office;
Foreign Post Office Letters for Inland Destinations; ROPiT Jerusalem
1906; Railway Mail Services in Ottoman Europe (III); Ottoman Military
Mail & Censorship; IRCs of Iran, Taxed Mail of the Gaza Strip; Syria
Martyrs Stamps; İstanbul Mosques on Ottoman Postcards; plus Book Reviews.
Reactions, Comments, Queries Section:
Asaf Tanrıkut; Kuwait–Iran Postal War; Disruption of Airmail Services to
Iraq and Iran 1980; Arab-Israeli Clandestine Mail; RECP postcard
exchange clubs; Syrian ADPO ZO Revenue Stamps; Dubai 1968 Butterflies;
Arab postage stamps with maps of Palestine.
Archive Section:
Postal Conditions in Turkey (1875); The Turkish Posts (1875).
Contents include:
Plate Errors of the Empire Stamps (I); Duloz 1876: Proofs and Trials;
Quarantine at Brindisi in 1882; Postal Conventions between Ottoman
Turkey and Persia (1884, 1892); New Postmark Discoveries Cisr-i Mustafa
Paşa–Dersaʿadet (Svilengrad–İstanbul) Railway; Railway Mail Service in
Ottoman Europe (IV): The Palekura Opium Plantation; Bisecting Austrian
Levant Stamps in Caifa 1908; The Dolmabahçe Imperial Palace Post Office:
Saray-ı Hümayun – Palais Impérial; Palestine Post Office Postal
Stationery Wrappers; Walter Mittelholzer’s Balkan Flight 1934; Palestine
Mandate: Rare Destinations (I); Book Review: Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait
(Al-Hajeri).
Contents include:
Ottoman Postcards: The Beyazıt Fire-Watch Tower;
Empire Plate Errors II;
The 25 Piastres Changeling (1876 Empire);
The Blockage in the Suez Canal in June 1885;
Local Mail in İstanbul: Lianos & Cie.;
Postal Newspaper Wrappers Takvīm-i Vakāyi;
Slate Mining in Veniziani-Gradsko;
The Thessalian Railways;
Holy Land Souvenir Covers;
Haifa Telegraph Cancels;
Overland Mail Haifa–Baghdad: Earliest Covers;
Palestine Mandate Rare Destinations;
The Jordanian Postmarks of Oil Pumping Stations H4 and H5;
Coil Stamps of Transjordan;
Iran: Tawafan Al-Aqsa Stamps;
Book Reviews:
Microhistory of the Turkish Posts;
Mail in the Levant;
Postal Stationery of Iraq.