Show A A POSTAGE STAMP With a PROPHECY the late war Turkey was hard put putto putto putto DURING to it to provide postage stamps The beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- stamp issue of 1913 was engraved and printed in London and when Turkey joined in the war she had only a six months' months supply As a belligerent she Ehe could obtain no more supplies from England and so the Turkish postal authorities determined to use up their old stocks of declassed stamps by overprinting on them the values required and a n legend that these surcharged surcharged surcharged sur charged stamps were available for postage Unfortunately for the Turks Turks though though luckily the design design design de de- for collectors of varieties varieties the overprinted sign included in the national insignia of the Star and md Crescent a six-pointed six star instead of the Moslem pointed five-pointed species Now this six- six pointed star happened to be the heraldic emblem of Bethlehem and orthodox Moslems l at nt once pointed out that Turkey could not use a hated Christian symbol So a fresh set had to be issued this time with witha a star having only five points Another curious point about the whole thing was that soon afterwards Bethlehem once more became Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian in possession as well as sentiment |