Ierapetra Part 1

Let's leave the issue dates for a while and visit Ierapetra.

In order to imagine the area around " the southernmost town of Europe" in the 1970ies see https://cretepostalhistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/a-forgotten-world.html

The town itself is dusty, the time seems to run very slowly in this mixture of "High Noon" and "Alexis Zorbas". In the two little habour tavernas -  one "for the tourists" and one for the old men of the town - we got fresh fish from  the local fishermen.


The known Postal History of Ierapetra begins 100 years earlier - Crete belongs to the Ottoman Empire - with one gem of Cretan Philately.



The Pictures and the following description of the cover by Mr. A. Galinos are found in a special catalogue of the 366. Heinrich Koehler Auction "Griechische Gebiete Die Sammlung Johann Ulrich Schmitt"

Hierapetra 1871: "YERAPETRA" black hexagonal postmark in Old-Turkish, tying a 20pa 1868 (perforated 13¼) on entire folded letter written in Greek (dateline Katochorion 16.June.1871) sent to Neochorion (nowadays Neapolis). Provenance Karamitsos Auction, UNIQUE according to Agaogullari, Superb strike Provenance: Marinakis collection, Kadinopoulos collection

Further information:

Description in the auction catalogue of the Marinakis collection 1994:
1871 EL fr. 20pa. Duloz 1869 canc. excellent octagon. Ottoman HIERAPETRA (Vl. 1 A) to Neohorion (Neapolis) . Superb condition & very rare

The differences in both descriptions are remarkable:
1868 and 1869
hexagonal and octogonal
unique and very rare

Front side of the cover is shown in the "Feenstra" page 23 wtith the town called "Yerepetre"

Zervoyannis (1971) , page 13, Footnote 8 mentions an envelope in the  collection of Mr. Eustr. Kouropakis with this postmark and the dateline 19.6.74

So two usages of this postmark are known, both on an envelope.

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