Crete: An Odyssey Through Stamps


The Ottoman Empire

 Perhaps no stamp captures so eloquently the long struggle of Crete, and all of Greece, to free itself from Ottoman rule as this one-- an allegory of Crete enslaved. Enslaved, Gibbons R9

 This stamp was issued by a revolutionary group in 1905. Scott does not list it, but Stanley Gibbons has it as R9.

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