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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

A day in Cyprus Philately

Ledra Street Post Office - NicosiaMain Post Ofice in Nicosia - north of Ledra StreetPostmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974
Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974
Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Postmaster Generals of Cyprus. Pre and post 1974Philately Department, Nicosia - north of Ledra StreetPhilately Department, Nicosia - north of Ledra StreetPhilately Department, Nicosia - north of Ledra StreetPhilately Department, Nicosia - north of Ledra Street
Philately Department, Nicosia - north of Ledra StreetPhilately Department, Nicosia - north of Ledra Street

A day in Cyprus Philately, a set on Flickr.
So on 4th June 2012 which was Kataklysmos "Festival of the Flood" Greek Orthodox public holiday - we chose to go to the north of Nicosia as we needed to visit the philately department.

Due to the difference in religions in the segregated north we knew the office would be open...

We got to meet the new man in charge of the office. He took over in December 2011 so we just missed him on our last visit.

He kindly allowed us to take some photographs too so here you will find some photos of the first Turkish Cypriot stamps issued by north Cyprus and some fantastic photographs of the former Postmaster Generals of Cyprus.

These include: J A Bulmer (1878 - 1883), Edwin Edgintons (1920 - 1922), Ahmed Aziz (1950 - 1954), Polyvios Hadjiioannou (1961 - 1963) and Ismail Bozat (2004 - 2009).

We spent the rest of the day walking around some slightly different streets than we usually visit and found some wonderful places we haven't seen before.

I got some photos of some old Ottoman tombstones from a local museum as well as a photo of Fazil Kucuk's house (and museum).

I will be adding these soon to my Flickr account.
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